Lee Webster is Campaigns Manager for CARE International UK. She runs the Voices Against Violence campaign, which calls for an end to violence against women in conflict.
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This week the latest attempt to fix the pay gap between men and women in the USA was stalled, after the Paycheck Fairness Act failed to get past the Republicans in the Senate. Women in the US earn, on average, 80% of men’s median pay. And the gap is much greater for African-American women, who [...] Sarah Learmonth is Policy Officer at Coventry Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre. Did you know that after you are raped it is very unlikely you will have a female Forensic Medical Examiner, the vast majority are men, in some areas of the country all are male? Did you also know that the British Medical Association [...] Emma-Louise Hardman attended the Progressive Women and Camden Speakers first ever ‘Inspiring Leaders’ event this Saturday 6th November. As nearly one hundred women and a sprinkling of men gathered in a function room in North London on Saturday for a day of talks and workshops under the banner Inspiring Leaders, one question in particular burned [...] America goes to the polls on Tuesday for the mid-term elections. The whole of the House of Representatives (one half of Congress) is elected every two years, and one third of the Senate (the other half of Congress) is also up for re-election. With commentators predicting that the Democrats are likely to loose [...] |
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