The International Bar Association’s Legal Policy & Research Unit recently launched a global investigation into the reasons why so many women lawyers are leaving the legal profession.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-so-many-women-leaving-law-claire-bibby?trk=v-feed&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BCy6UegqLIEDD%2B4lpqeEX0A%3D%3D
The value of unpaid childcare makes it Australia’s largest industry, larger than any in the formal economy.
Unsurprisingly, because of traditional role allocation, women do 76% of childcare and 72% of unpaid work overall. They also do 67% of domestic work, 69% of care of adults and 57% of volunteering.
With women doing three-quarters of the unpaid work, attaching a dollar value helps in understanding how it affects their participation in the paid workforce, says Thorpe.
“Amal Clooney nails an elegant maternity look as she speaks against Isis at the UN” (Daily Telegraph)
this is the definition of sexism, ignoring a woman’s achievements and focusing instead on her fertility and appearance? That it is a sad indictment of us all that a pregnant woman in a dress is deemed more newsworthy than international slaughter?https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/mar/13/amal-clooney-maternity-wardrobe-media-human-rights-lawyer-appearance-sexism-mermaid-hair?
Fred Nile has reintroduced his Crimes Amendment Bill, known as Zoe’s Law, which seeks to criminalise harm to, or destruction of, a “child in utero”.
“At best, these proposed changes to the Crimes Act are incompetently drafted and unnecessary, since there are already adequate provisions to prosecute dangerous drivers or assailants whose actions result in a woman suffering a miscarriage. At worst, these provisions are motivated by malicious and misogynistic intent and constitute a startling attack on the human rights of women – in the same league as the global gag rule recently signed by Donald Trump. ALHR calls on members of the NSW Legislative Assembly to reject the bill in its entirety.
https://alhr.org.au/human-rights-lawyers-concerned-reintroduction-fred-nile-zoes-law-will-undermine-womens-girls-rights/
State Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, filed a bill Friday that would penalize men for “unregulated masturbatory emissions.” The satirical House Bill 4260 would encourage men to remain “fully abstinent” and only allow the “occasional masturbatory emissions inside health care and medical facilities,” which are described in the legislation as the best way to ensure men’s health. Such an emission would be considered “an act against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of life,” according to the legislation.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-representative-creates-a-bill-to-promote-10994871.php
While we all celebrate International Women’s Day in different ways, there’s one under-discussed issue I hope all of us will take up – the way racist policies across the globe are being enacted under the guise of protecting women.
Stoking racial hatred by invoking the protection of women – white women, in particular – is nothing new in the United States, of course. The fear of rape has historically been used to justify horrific violence against American black men
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/08/feminism-hijacked-migrants?
A survey published in the article, ‘Gender Equality Among Barristers Before the High Court’, suggests that female barristers continue to be very nearly invisible in Australia’s highest court, the Australian Women Lawyers (AWL) has said.
http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/wig-chamber/20703-legal-body-underscores-troubling-silence-in-the-court?utm_source=LawyersWeekly&utm_campaign=10_03_17&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/female-barristers-are-barely-seen-and-rarely-heard-in-our-high-court-20170224-gukfec.html
By 2022 Summers says we need to achieve four significant reforms. “Legislated equal pay for all women in all jobs, decriminalisation of abortion in New South Wales and Queensland, specialist domestic violence courts in every state of Australia and gender quotas dictating women make up 50 per cent of all parliamentarians, all cabinets and other ministries and directors of all public company and government boards.”
He said that mainly women are being trafficked because their skin and organ are more often in better condition since they do not smoke or drink alcohol. Nepali women are mainly targeted for skin because they are fair and their skin is passed off as that of a person of Caucasian origin.
An employee of the company that distributes human tissue derived products used in India, on condition of anonymity, said that there is a lot of competition among large tissue processors in the US, and they procure tissues through different channels.
The security checks at the Indo-Nepal border are rare. The 1800-km border is very porous.https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2017/03/how-women-from-nepal-are-trafficked-to-india-and-disfigured-to-make-rich-men-and-women-beautiful/
Aboriginal women are the “fastest growing” prison population in Australia and it is well-known incarceration rates for Aboriginal women are linked to the double discrimination women face in the criminal justice system on the basis of both race and gender.
Aboriginal women also spoke of the suffering resulting from child protection practices leading to widespread removal of Aboriginal children, including newborns, from their mothers at rates exceeding those that occurred under the discriminatory era of The Stolen generations.
