There were no shortage of sexist comments that came from the Trump Camp last week. But as it becomes increasingly clear that the Donald will indeed end up being the Republican nominee, and face off towards Clinton in November, the more of his misogynistic self is being exposed to the public. It was great to […]
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It is becoming frighteningly clear by the day that Donald Trump will end up winning the Republican nomination, and it has never been more clear that America needs Hillary Clinton. At the beginning of the year, I wrote about why America needs a female President, mainly because it is ranked so poorly globally when it
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*The post of mine is also published on The Huffington Post & The Daily Ittefaq.* Prince William & Kate’s recent tour of India & Bhutan was quite a royal success. In an increasingly visual world, the photo opportunities alone of the Royal Couple provided a priceless public relations campaign for the British Royal Family that the
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*This post of mine is also published on Women in the World/New York Times.* One of my earliest memories about Bangladesh’s 1971 War of Independence is a story my mother told me about the bodies Pakistani soldiers would dump across the capital, Dhaka. She said you would go to search the mass graves in certain
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After Fmr. US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright and feminist icon, Gloria Steinem suggested a few weeks back that young women are entitled to vote for Hillary it seemed as though the Clinton campaign would not recover from making millennial women feel obligated to vote for Hillary solely based on her gender, not her policies.
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This week on To The Contrary we talked about how UN Women can go about achieving their ambitious goals when funding them is something that is just suggested to member states. We spoke about how the trend of older women working longer is increasing, but the issue that really haunted me after the show was
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*This post of mine is also published in The Huffington Post & The Daily Ittefaq.* The fact that women have a harder time cultivating a career and voice in the field of comedy is no secret. Experts point out that despite the major success of some American women, such as Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Chelsea Handler, and most
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So much controversy has erupted over Gloria Steinem and fmr. Secretary of State, Madeline Albright’s apparent chiding of younger women voters that personally, I am annoyed by the story. And that is exactly what I said when I went on CNN with Democratic strategist, Hillary Rosen. Although the clip shows the part of the segment during which
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_wYxHi9Wq0 It may be a brand new year, but Republican candidates are not letting go of unleashing anti-Muslim terror and fervor as the race to the White House escalates. So where does this put Obama’s first US mosque visit? I went on Hearst TV’s new show, Matter of Fact with host, Fernando Espuelas to try and
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Is it wrong for feminists to be football fans? This was just one of the topics we tackled, (pun intended), on this week’s To The Contrary on PBS. I’m all about women doing and enjoying whatever they want, but one must be conscious of the fact that there is a culture that pervades the National
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