Books - Just A few More

The end is in sight - at least for this month only! Apprentice in Black Stockings - A Nursing Memoir 1949 - 1953 by Norma Sim " Apprent...

More Books To Be Read

A few more books that have made their way onto my ever growing list: The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders "7 April 1...

Evergrowing Mt TBR - Australia History

Just a few more titles to add to the every growing "Mount To Be Read": Mary Reiby: From Convict To First Lady Of Trade by Kathleen...

South Sudan's First Female Pilot

From the Sudan Tribune : She is shy and occasionally breaks down when asked to narrate her ordeal. And yet Aluel James Bol has just become t...

Farewell to the First Bond Girl - Linda Christian

From BBC News : Actress Linda Christian, a 1940s Hollywood starlet who went on to become the first Bond girl, has died aged 87. She died las...

Female President for Singapore?

From the Diplomat : The recent victory of Yingluck Shinawatra, who will become Thailand’s first female prime minister, has inspired some Sin...

Somali Minister For Women Abducted

From Ms. Magazine : Asha Osman Aqiil, Somalia's new minister for women and family affairs, was abducted by Islamist rebels late Wednesda...

Indigenous Women in Presidential Race

From Latin America Press : Two indigenous women are seeking to make history by reaching the two top jobs in politics: Nobel Peace laureate R...

Women Survivors of The Alamo

From My San Antonio : In a July 10 column, reader Richard Villanueva asked if there were other female survivors of the siege and battle of t...

Women - Culprits of Domestic Abuse

From AllAfrica : Abuse of women and children is gradually taking the better half of the society, and even the world today. Everyday there ar...

Outrage Over Treatment of Violated Buddhist Nun

From the Times of India : A 21-year-old Buddhist nun from Nepal, who was said to have "lost" her religion and become unfit to rema...

Horrors of Child Brides

From CNN : In Yemen, a deeply tribal society, the issue of child marriages is a complicated one. Two years ago, 10-year-old Nujood Ali shock...

Adventure Awaits...

I would like to apologize for the seriously long (okay, insanely long!) radio silence these past few months. This blog is still active, but ...

Female Afghan Pilots In US

From Reuters : Afghanistan's first crop of female military pilots arrived for training this week, where they will first study English ...

Film: Mozart's Sister

From the Sydney Morning Herald : In the 18th century, social convention dictated women in Europe were not allowed to play the violin. Maria ...

Christiane Desroches Noblecourt

From Financial Times - Obituaries : Barely five feet tall in her desert boots, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt almost single-handedly organi...

Archaeologist Catherine Namono

From New Vision : SHE did not hope she would become an archeaologist, until Catherine Namono went to South Africa to pursue her second maste...

Ancient Ossuary of Miriam

From artdaily.com : Three years ago the Israel Antiquities Authority Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery acquired a decorated os...

Tian Jin - Falun Gong Activist Reflects

From the Province : This winter, as the city debated and eventually amended a traffic bylaw about the eight-year vigil maintained by the Fal...

Yingluck Shinawatra - Thailand's Next PM?

From the Star : Political pundits discounted her from the get-go: she had no political experience, had never held a government post and had ...

Jung Sung-im - Civilian in Military

From Business Ghana : South Korea's military academy has appointed a female civilian as a professor for the first time in its history, a...