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Female journalists under attack as press freedom falters
Physical and online abuse, detentions, deportations and sexual violence – a global crackdown on women in journalism is intensifying. Female journalists are at the “epicentre of risk” as attacks on press freedom intensify around the world.. ...The Guardian - World -
Los Angeles unleashes a new weapon in its fight against mosquitoes: More mosquitoes
An aggressive mosquito species has moved into Los Angeles. So officials are releasing thousands of sterile mosquitoes in bid to fight them.NBC News - Top stories -
Bitterly divided Garrick Club prepares to vote on female membership again
Tuesday’s debate on whether the existing rules do not in fact bar women comes amid rising resignations and threats. In May 1924, the Manchester Guardian revealed a “recent innovation in the Garrick Club to admit ladies to one of its rooms” meant ...The Guardian - World -
Afghanistan's only female diplomat resigns in India after gold smuggling allegations
An Afghan diplomat in India who was appointed before the Taliban seized power in 2021 and says she was the only woman in the country’s diplomatic service has resignedABC News - World - India -
New public buildings to be required to have separate male and female toilets
Legislation is needed to address safety, privacy and dignity concerns, minister Kemi Badenoch says.BBC News - Top stories -
Garrick Club votes to accept female members for first time
Members back dropping men-only rule in place for 193 years, after Guardian revealed details of membership list. ‘Where actors and men of refinement might meet’: Garrick Club historyThe men-only Garrick Club has finally voted to allow women to ...The Guardian - World -
‘My role was to be a truthful witness’: photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners
In the 1970s, the photographer began teaching in a progressive US women’s prison and made moving portraits of many of the inmates. Looking back, he sees how many of them actually felt safer in prison. In 1970, aged 35, Jack Lueders-Booth left a ...The Guardian - World -
Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed as ‘high jinks’
Marines ‘want to protect the chain of command’, she says. ‘They don’t want to protect women’. When Isabel became a trainee for the Royal Marines band, she thought she was fulfilling a childhood dream. But within a few weeks the 18-year-old found ...The Guardian - World -
Book Review: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger’s penetrating essays explore the power of female friendships
In 2021 Lilly Dancyger’s first book, “Negative Space,” was praised for its unflinching portrait of her father’s heroin addictionABC News - Entertainment -
Met Opera hosts 4 female conductors in landmark week. From its founding to 2016, there were only 4
Only four women conducted the Metropolitan Opera in its first 133 years ending in 2016, but now four women have taken the baton in a one-week spanABC News - Entertainment