They say you are only as good as the company you keep. In that case, I could not be more honored and thrilled to be on HuffPost Women’s list of 27 Influential Women telling you why we are voting, and more importantly, why on November 4th you should, too: In 2014, legislation that could significantly impact […]
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*This post of mine was also published in Forbes Woman, The Huffington Post & ClickIttefaq.* Facebook and Apple reignited the whether or not women can “have it all” debate yesterday by announcing that they would pay the $10,000 price tag that comes with egg-freezing for their female employees. Two of the most culturally powerful companies in the world are offering
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*This post of mine was published on Forbes Woman & The Huffington Post.* When I was growing up in Bangladesh in the early 1980s, I used to imagine America as a feminist utopia. Before I even stepped foot on her soil, I pictured America as a country where women enjoyed full equal rights, especially when it came to controlling
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Wrapping up another great week at Al-Jazeera and it never ceases to amaze me how much I learn from each show we do. From Kuwait’s demand for democracy to young scientists changing the world to Argentina’s message war to the use of social media in the Israel-Palestinian crisis to medicating poverty, each time I co-anchor the Stream, I
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Big victory for American women today as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) goes into effect. Many of you might be wondering what exactly I am talking about, what the big deal is, or how this effects you. Starting today, millions of women across the United States will be able to access a wide range of reproductive health services.
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Canada is the best place to be a woman, and India is the worst according to a new poll by Thomson Reuters Foundation. The legal news service launched a global poll of experts this week ranking countries for women in the G20, putting the US, which “polarised opinion due to issues surrounding reproductive rights and affordable healthcare,” in sixth place. Access to healthcare and policies that advocate gender equality
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