President Obama is calling on Congress to require companies to give workers up to seven days of paid sick leave a year. Also this week, the nominations for the Academy Awards this year have been criticized for their lack of diversity.
A transgender Dalit in central India has become the country’s first transgender to be elected mayor. Also this week, House Republicans are renewing their effort to ban abortion after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy and anti-choice efforts continue across the U.S.
President Obama made his final press conference memorable by only taking questions from female reporters. Elsewhere, ISIS militants attacked women in the western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar before burying them in mass graves in Fallujah.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled four initiatives to combat sexual assault in the U.S. military. Also this week, Rolling Stone magazine says it now has questions about an article it published that made detailed allegations of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity.
This week, the Senate approved a reauthorization bill for the Child Care and Development Block Grant for the first time since 1996. Also, Walmart employees plan to strike on Black Friday to protest low wages that prevent some from feeding their families.
New York has begun a rent subsidy program for victims of domestic violence. In rural India, 13 women died last weekend at an unsanitary “sterilization camp.”
For the first time, 100 women are sitting in Congress. This week also marked the date when working British women stop making money compared to men thanks to the gender wage gap.
A campaign in Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to drive, encouraged women to take pictures of themselves at the wheel. Also, actress Soshana B. Roberts received more than 100 catcalls while walking in New York City.
Over $400 million is being provided for female entrepreneurs in Turkey. Also this week, 25 more girls have been kidnapped in a remote town in northeastern Nigeria.
As part of the truce in Nigeria, it’s been said that the schoolgirls Boko Haram abducted will be released. Also this week, Media critic and feminist blogger Anita Sarkeesian was forced to cancel a talk at Utah State University after receiving death threats.
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