African women food farmers labor up to twice as long per week as their male counterparts, producing, processing, and transporting virtually all of Africa`s food; yet these primary producers own only 1% of the land. They receive less than 7% of farm extension services, and less than 10% of the
agricultural credit available for small farmers. Více

Iran plans to improve the way women are portrayed in school books as part of adrive to encourage a more open attitude to the role of women in society.A government study has shown that young women in the conservative holy Iranian City of Qom are more depressed than those in the more liberal capital Tehran. Více

V době, kdy z římsko-katolické církve odešel z důvodu její přílišné bigotnosti a vnitřní intolerance jeden z jejích nejvýraznějších teologů, bývalý dominikán Ivan Odilo Štampach, kdy se v rámci církve vedou vášnivé diskuse o (ne)možnosti interrupce a antikoncepce a kdy naše jediná parlamentní křesťanská strana blokuje s velice vulgární argumentací přijetí zákona o registrovaném partnerství, vydalo CDK knihu Georga Denzlera "Zakázaná slast - Dva tisíce let křesťanské sexuální morálky." Více

The voice of women is largely absent from Central European cinema. The female directors that there are present a view of life which is decidedly rooted in male conceptions of gender and sexuality.
One interesting example of this phenomenon is Nic (Nothing, 1998), the latest film from Dorota Kedzierzawska, the rising star of the 1990s Polish film industry.