Women's Voices

 

12 December 2021

 

Women's Voices

9 posts today

Kuttiyamma achieved her dream of learning how to read at the age of 104. Women account for two-thirds of the world's adult illiterate population, a figure which has remained virtually unchanged for nearly three decades. Source: https://t.co/7ZkM7u...

December 12th @ 11:55 pm |

Women's Voices

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Male rapists are being transferred to women's prisons, and have already raped and assaulted women in the US, Canada, and the UK. Classifying violent male offenders as female is state-sanctioned violence against women — both psychological and ...

December 12th @ 3:17 pm |

Women's Voices

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An estimated 41% of Syrian girls were married before their 18th birthday, alongside a rise in "forced puberty" — injecting young girls with hormones to induce early puberty and make them appear older. The practice also occurs in brothels in India. ...

December 12th @ 11:05 am |

Women's Voices

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At least five of the longest-lived women in recorded history have attributed their longevity to avoiding men. About 85% of centenarians and 90% of supercentenarians are women. https://t.co/oeebmB...

December 12th @ 9:51 am |

Women's Voices

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A Netsafe survey in 2019 found 5 per cent of New Zealand adults — or 170,000 people — had been the victim of online image-based abuse. 95% of the victims were women. 97% of all victims of non-consensual deepfake pornography were women. ...

December 12th @ 7:19 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @ContraBorrado: "Castrar niños al servicio de la sexualidad masculina. Prácticas fetichistas de los hombres detrás de la 'disforia de género'". Imprescindible. Genevieve Gluck, @WomenReadWomen https://t.co/WsrSf9...

December 12th @ 7:11 am |

Women's Voices

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Veteran CNN producer John Griffin used messaging apps to persuade moms of young girls, telling them “a woman is a woman regardless of her age,” and that he should be the one to “train” their daughters sexually, according to the indictment. ...

December 12th @ 12:01 am |