Women contribute significantly to Sri Lanka’s economy and the government is committed to increasing women’s representation in Parliament and their participation in decision making, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said in a women’s day…
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Colombo Club, the exclusive domain for gentlemen for close to 125 years made a historic stride on its path towards gender neutrality with the election of Anushya Coomaraswamy its first ever female chairperson recently
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Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has proposed a new bill on gender equality and women’s empowerment to be submitted to Parliament soon, in a country where violence against women is not considered a serious crime amid lethargic…
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Would you like our female teachers to report to work like those women in Sigiriya frescoes? That was a tradition too at one point in our history
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Sandberg, 52, was part of a cohort of women at major tech companies who made keynote speeches, rose to the level of founders like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg, and had a seat at the table at high-powered business gatherings like the Allen…
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The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial was, from gavel to gavel, a singularly baffling, unedifying and sad spectacle. Now that it has ended with the jury finding in favour of Depp on all questions and in favour of Heard on only one,…
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1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Held on March 8, International Women’s Day celebrates the progress women have made over the last century, and the inspiring women who helped make that progress happen. From the suffragist movement of the 1800s to the 2017 Women’s March in…
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By Choe Sang Hun SEOUL — They have shown up whenever women rallied against sexual violence and gender biases in South Korea. Dozens of young men, mostly dressed in black, taunted the protesters, squealing and chanting, “Thud! Thud!” to…
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By James Edgar KABUL - Afghan teenager Amena saw dozens of classmates killed when her girls' school was targeted by an Islamic State bomb attack in May, but she was determined to continue her education. Now, like most secondary school…
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