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The rules are modified for players’ vision levels, and the bats are shorter. But the pride of the players on Nepal’s national team for blind women seems boundless. “We’ll soon present a world-class blind woman cricketer,” the team’s coach says.
On a recent trip to Khartoum, Meghan Sapp found herself in the middle of a frank discussion about female genital mutilation with a group of male bachelors. A couple of them knew little about the practice and were often afraid to ask.
Today’s commentators say it’s a shame that Maureen Dowd should depend on such flaky research and flimsy evidence when writing about feminism. Dowd’s article, based on weak research, was the most e-mailed story from The New York Times yesterday.
(WOMENSENEWS)–A reader telecopied a postcard from the Philadelphia Inquirer to Women’s eNews and she was, well, outraged. The advertisement uses the image of a female blonde office employee holding a tiny bottle that appears to be Liquid Paper, leaning over a computer screen and touching it with a tiny brush, as if to correct an error in an electronic document. Next to her, emblazoned in large type: “You Still Need Good Workers–That’s why you need us.” On the back of the image, the advertising copy reads: “When hiring opportunities are rarer than ever, hiring decisions are more critical than ever. You can’t afford to hire anyone but the best.”
Girls’ summer camps that emphasize computers, engineering, leadership and self esteem are thriving in the United States, but even their organizers are unsure of their long-term effects.
In a country where women are often relegated to the sidelines, Leena Moin has stepped into center field as Pakistan’s first female cricket commentator on the nation’s network television.