When Ayami Sato takes to the mound at Toronto’s Christie Pits park on Sunday, her first pitch will make history. Sato, 35, has come all the way from Japan to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, one of nine teams in the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) of southern Ontario. She’ll …
Read More »9 women, 3 children among Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City school shelter
Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 59 people, hospital officials said Wednesday, as Israel prepares to ramp up its campaign against Hamas in a war now entering its 20th month. The strikes included one attack on Tuesday night on a school sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, which killed 27 …
Read More »How an accidental email captured what some call Pope Francis’s mixed legacy on women
As the Catholic Church mourns the death of Pope Francis and its all-male College of Cardinals prepares to elect his successor, some say an accidental email sent last month captured the contradictions at the core of Francis’s legacy on women. In January, Francis made his highest-ranking female appointment, naming Sister …
Read More »England and Wales ban transgender women from women’s cricket ‘with immediate effect’
Transgender women are to be banned outright from women’s and girls’ cricket in England and Wales. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said Friday it had updated its previous restrictions following a U.K. Supreme Court ruling last month. The ECB said transgender women would no longer be able to play in …
Read More »Mi Vs Rcb Wpl Live Score: Mumbai Vs Bangalore Today Women Ipl Match Scorecard News In Hindi – Amar Ujala Hindi News Live
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Read More »Sask. women find chat room sharing their intimate or sexualized images without consent
Late last year, a man Kelsey Diaz knew said he had seen her intimate photos online, but he refused to offer more information about it. She assumed he was lying to her. This week, as the existence of an online server harbouring that material became more public, she learned that …
Read More »Canadian women claim World Cup speedskating sprint gold, Stolz completes hat trick
Canada’s sprinters ensured the host team didn’t leave Calgary’s speedskating World Cup without a medal, while American star Jordan Stolz completed his hat trick at the Olympic Oval on Sunday. Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin, Carolina Hiller of Prince George, B.C., and Beatrice Lamarche of Quebec City won gold in the women’s …
Read More »After Assad, these 3 women are working to build a just and peaceful Syria
The Current24:51Meet the Syrian women demanding a role in the country’s future As Alma Salem crossed the border from Lebanon into Syria she asked the driver to pull over. She fled the country 13 years ago when Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian government opposed pro-democracy protests with military force, plunging the country into civil war. …
Read More »Despite gains, women still do most of the housework. Will this gender gap ever narrow?
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. We could be talking about laundry just as easily as we could be describing decades of research on the household division of labour. Like the laundry that never goes away, research on the gender gap has shown us the same pattern over and over: women still take on more …
Read More »Taliban to close all NGOs employing Afghan women
The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. In a letter published on X Sunday night, the Economy …
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