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NYC Speaker: State Paid Leave Easy to Implement

By Hajer Naili ● Employment ● April 21, 2015

Melissa Mark-Viverito leads a progressive City Council and personally exemplifies the city’s ethnic leadership. At the same time she notes a sharp decline in female representation on the council. “This obviously represents a problem,” she says in this Q & A interview.

‘ISIS Is Watching:’ French Teen Tells Her Family

By Hajer Naili ● Politics ● April 15, 2015

Not long after she ran away to join the Islamic State, she told her family she was happy being there. But now she wants to come home and her family has no idea where to turn. Her fate, as a minor, is legally uncertain at this point in France.

Tamara Winfrey-Harris Is Fixing ‘Broken’ Narrative

By Hajer Naili ● Arts & Culture ● March 30, 2015

Her first book, “The Sisters are Alright,” comes out later this year and, in interviews with hundreds of women, challenges a downbeat media perception of African American women: “Most of us are happy to be exactly who we are.”

Amani al-Khatahtbeh at a rally against the visit of Israel's prime minister in early March 2015

MuslimGirl Founder Says Islam Is Feminist

By Hajer Naili ● Culture ● March 25, 2015

Amani al-Khatahtbeh, a veiled, Muslim, feminist, started her own online publication when she was in high school in New Jersey. “The most important thing for the movement,” she says, “is to take a step back and empower women to speak for themselves.”

Ruth Rosen Compares Intimidation, Then and Now

By Hajer Naili ● Arts & Culture ● March 19, 2015

“This is a completely different world,” says the historian, who has written about FBI surveillance of women in the era of J. Edgar Hoover. “There is such an opportunity to destroy people online now in a way that never existed when we were young.”

For the Solid Core of #CoolFeminism, Check Iceland

By Hajer Naili ● Politics ● March 18, 2015

Here’s where you find women relishing their fight for equality whether that means skirmishing against outlawed strip clubs or waging huge job walkouts. The exuberance of the U.N. panel befitted a country that raises a global beacon for girls and women.

#ThingsMenDo Pushes for Women’s Rights at UN

By Hajer Naili ● Politics ● March 13, 2015

The push for male allies to be part of the women’s rights movement was prevalent at some events tied to the Commission on the Status of Women happening this week. One panel highlighted #thingsmendo.

French Official Says Sex Education Falling Short

By Hajer Naili ● Politics ● March 9, 2015

The prevention of pregnancy and STDs are consistently taught. But women’s right to choose their own contraception or the idea that access to reproductive rights is a key component of gender equality can get overlooked. The French secretary of women’s rights wants to correct that.

Patricia Arquette Stirs ‘White Feminism’ Pushback

By Hajer Naili ● Arts & Culture ● February 26, 2015

The Oscar winner’s backstage comments about “gays and people of color” are clouding the otherwise sunny response to her wage-gap remarks during her acceptance speech. Despite Hollywood’s wage gap and Arquette’s personal ties to childhood poverty, some Twitter users reject a highly paid celebrity as their wage champion.

Deadly Rape In Turkey Triggers National Outcry

By Hajer Naili ● Crime & Law ● February 17, 2015

In response to the brutal murder of Özgecan Aslan women in Turkey have led street protests and begun a social media campaign to share their accounts of sexual harassment and violence under the hashtag #sendeanlat (you tell your story too). U.N. groups have condemned the killing.

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