"A big part of it is changing the stereotypes, changing the prejudices that people have," he said. "I passionately believe that it can't just be a fight for girls and women, it's got to be all of us. We need more boys and men getting it, not just because they are fathers of daughters or because they have a sister they care about, but because we will benefit as a society if we have equality," he added, before quoting Malala Yousafzai - "We cannot succeed while half of us are held back."

“Seeing the kind of stuff that people are fighting for in the (state) legislature, and how irrelevant it is to women, is really disheartening, and it turns off a lot of women to the Republican Party. I think that there needs to be a major social mover, a woman who just comes out of the woodwork and really charts a path for women. I haven’t seen anyone really take the national consciousness there. It’s really sad, but there really isn’t a figurehead for the movement for the empowerment of women who are Republican. We need a figurehead to look up to, someone who is larger than life.”

Neville told RTE earlier this month that she had encountered some gender bias during her refereeing career. "There's no point getting defensive about it, it's about changing perceptions and educating people so they understand that it's not about the gender of the person refereeing," she said. "Nine times out of ten the individual will come up after and say wow that was great when is your next game and that for me is the reward."

Political scientist Linda Trimble reviewed 2,500 newspaper articles spanning a 37-year period. She found that women who ran for leadership of major Canadian political parties faced scrutiny based on physical appearance or traditional gender roles that was disproportionate in relation to their male opponents.

The outsized impact of opioids on women signals a much larger problem of poorer health and poorer access to care that make women more susceptible to addiction and, once addicted, more likely to die as a result. And what affects women affects families. In most American homes, women are the primary caregivers and their well-being usually determines the well-being and the future of our children. Evidence of this abounds in hospital neonatal units across the country, where the number of infants born with symptoms of opioid addiction increased five-fold from 2000 to 2012 — a trend that will exact a price in the form of higher medical costs and social burdens for decades to come.

“Seeing the kind of stuff that people are fighting for in the (state) legislature, and how irrelevant it is to women, is really disheartening, and it turns off a lot of women to the Republican Party. I think that there needs to be a major social mover, a woman who just comes out of the woodwork and really charts a path for women. I haven’t seen anyone really take the national consciousness there. It’s really sad, but there really isn’t a figurehead for the movement for the empowerment of women who are Republican. We need a figurehead to look up to, someone who is larger than life.”

Cognizant of the fact that it was vital to involve men in the process of finding solutions — sexism, male dominance and patriarchal social norms form the foundation of violence against women — the organisation started conducting regular meetings with the men of the community. The idea was to raise awareness against gender-based violence and to demystify issues relating to sexuality and sexual health. Though the meetings initially had to face a lot of resistance, they gradually found acceptance among the community. Today, the volunteer group has hundreds of active members who participate regularly in these meetings and have started challenging deep-rooted patriarchal norms.

EQO37 Published by Allison B. Clark · December 15 at 7:37pm · "You can come down on me for being a soured former CEO who played by and succeeded under these same male rules. You can say this sounds self-serving, or comes too late. But with age comes some measure of wisdom generated by having lived through the didacticism of history. I don’t want to be a part of this Silent Generation."

Some couples say they still hide their physical relationships from old-fashioned parents who would not understand, despite the fact that Maiduguri is a cosmopolitan city where televisions are tuned to CNN and Adele songs are popular ringtones on smartphones.

“Developing conservation skills in communities creates more than just jobs,” says Professor Muposhi. “It makes local people directly benefit from the preservation of wildlife.” And that, he says, can save not only landmark species such as elephants but entire ecosystems. “This is a true empowerment programme,” says Muposhi, “because you are dealing with a highly vulnerable and damaged group of young ladies.” Sitting on a rock looking north over one of Africa’s last great wildernesses, Muposhi explains that his early research shows the five-month-old programme is helping change these formerly unemployed single mothers into community leaders.

The fund has helped prevent millions of unwanted pregnancies and has sharply reduced maternal deaths in childbirth. It is a major advocate for women’s reproductive health. But the fund’s advocacy work also can extend in positive ways into other aspects of a woman’s life, Dr. Kanem said. Its mobile maternal health clinics, for example, are partly meant to give women safe spaces where they can relax and ask questions about anything, she said, including “things that are happening to their husbands and families.”