Banned from driving and denied the right to travel without permission, Saudi women are taking bold steps in business and trying to do away with the male guardian system that hobbles them.
"What we need today is the right to take decisions by ourselves without having to get the consent of the male guardian," said Rania al-Sulaimani, 33, who owns a beauty centre in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
Like all women in the ultra-conservative kingdom, businesswomen need male permission for virtually everything, so even those who own companies are forced by law to appoint a male director, if just in name.
But two women managed to avoid the required appointment for their business, after knocking on the minister of commerce's door demanding an exemption, which they surprisingly got.
Two Virginia Tech scientists may have invented the future of cancer treatment—a way to eradicate tumors without the harmful side effects of chemotherapy, radiation or a surgeon’s scalpel.
They’ve built what chemist Karen Brewer calls a “molecular machine” that seeks out fast-replicating cancer cells and becomes lethal only when exposed to light.
Other photodynamic therapies rely on drugs that grab oxygen molecules from nearby tissue, so they are powerless against dense, fast-growing cancers—such as breast, brain, lung and prostate—with hypoxic, or oxygen-free, cores.
“I really wanted to come up with something completely different, a light-activated drug that would not require oxygen,” says Brewer, an expert at building light-triggered on/off switches for chemical compounds.
Susan notes: this powerful video is from The Woman Project by French photographer/social activist JR. According to the project website "The Women project wants to underline the pivotal role (of women), and to highlight
their dignity by shooting them in their daily lives and posting them on
the walls of their country. On the other hand, by posting the same images of these women in Western
countries, the project allows everyone to feel concerned by their
condition and connects, through art, the two different worlds."
JR was recently awarded the TED Prize for his work.
Casanova’s rule for seduction was to tell a beautiful woman she was intelligent and an intelligent woman she was beautiful.
The false choice between intellectualism and sexuality in women has persisted through the ages. There was no more poignant victim of it than Marilyn Monroe.
She was smart enough to become the most famous Dumb Blonde in history. Photographers loved to get her to pose in tight shorts, a silk robe or a swimsuit with a come-hither look and a weighty book — a history of Goya or James Joyce’s “Ulysses” or Heinrich Heine’s poems.
A high-brow bunny picture, a variation on the sexy librarian trope. Men
who were nervous about her erotic intensity could feel superior by
making fun of her intellectually.
Some headlines are hailing her as the bravest woman in Mexico. Marisol Valles Garcia, all of 20 years old, says she's just tired of everyone being afraid.
Valles Garcia, a criminology student, became the police chief this week of Praxedis G. Guerrero, one of the most violent municipalities in the border state of Chihuahua. She was the only person who accepted the top job in a police force whose officers have been abducted and even killed.
"Yes, there is fear," Valles Garcia said Wednesday in an interview with CNN en Español. "It's like all human beings. There will always be fear, but what we want to achieve in our municipality is tranquility and security."
Three young Palestinian schoolgirls get international recognition for inventing a beeping laser walking stick that can help the visually challenged navigate their way on ground and on uneven terrain as well as on the staircase.
Where: Askar refugee camp, Nablus, West Bank
Who: Three 14-year old schools girls - Aseel Abu Leil, Nour Al-Arda and Aseel Shaer, from the Askar Basic Girls School.
Why: The violence had robbed the sight of many of their dear and near ones and the existing laser guided walking sticks were not serving the purpose.
Banned from driving and denied the right to travel without permission, Saudi women are taking bold steps in business and trying to do away with the male guardian system that hobbles them.
Two Virginia Tech scientists may have invented the future of cancer treatment—a way to eradicate tumors without the harmful side effects of chemotherapy, radiation or a surgeon’s scalpel.
Casanova’s rule for seduction was to tell a beautiful woman she was intelligent and an intelligent woman she was beautiful.
Some headlines are hailing her as the bravest woman in Mexico. Marisol Valles Garcia, all of 20 years old, says she's just tired of everyone being afraid.
Three young Palestinian schoolgirls get international recognition for inventing a beeping laser walking stick that can help the visually challenged navigate their way on ground and on uneven terrain as well as on the staircase.