Hi, dear reader! It is 10th of March and we offer you to read the most interesting news stories of the week! On 8th of March the whole planet celebrated International Women Day, so we made a digest of articles related to women and their rights! On behalf of the entire editorial board, we wish you to be strong, independent and confident in yourself and your strength! Let’s read!
This digest was made while listening to Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss me
POLITICS. Hillary Clinton is not going to participate in 2020 presidential elections.
Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party’s nominee for President in US in the 2016 election and the first woman nominated by a major-party, said on 4th of March that she is not running for president again in 2020, even though it was clear long time ago without an official statement.
“I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe.”
Hillary Clinton told News12, NYC television station
In the interview, Clinton assured everyone that she will still be present in politics.
“I want to be sure that people understand I’m going to keep speaking out, I’m not going anywhere.”
CULTURE. Female photojournalists speak out about prejudices and sexism.
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, freelance journalist in TheGuardian.com, made a material, where she talked to some famous female photojournalists. They told her about difficulties, gender prejudices and advantages of being woman in this industry.
Cybele Malinowski, 37, is a photojournalist, based in Sydney.
Malinowski faced discrimination while doing her work. Sometimes clients thought that she was makeup artist or stylist on set, sometimes people thought her male assistant was a real photographer.
“We want to show future female photographers: yes, of course, you can do it. If you’re hungry, you’re talented, you’re driven, you can definitely get there.”
Cybele Malinowski in interview for Sebag-Montefiore
Malinowski decided to fight with sexism with all her strength. In 2018 she co-founded Agender with entrepreneur Angela Liang, a platform for female photographers with the purpose of exchanging ideas, thoughts and etc. Balance For Better is their second exhibition, it will open on 9 March to celebrate International Women’s Day. 50% of profit will be donated to Sydney Women’s Fund.
Wild + Free by Elise Hassey
SPORTS. U.S. women’s soccer team files gender discrimination suit against its own federation.
All 28 members of the world champion United States women’s national team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation on Friday. The exacerbation of a long-running fight over pay equity and working conditions that comes only months before the championate begin defense of its Women’s World Cup title.
Superstars such as Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan sued the United States Soccer Federation over pay and workplace issues.
The civil complaint was launched in federal court in Los Angeles, marking another major step in an ongoing fight between players and the federation over pay and workplace issues.
US team during She Believes Cup in March 2019. Photograph: Douglas DeFelice/USA Today Sports
SOCIETY. A women’s march dedicated to International Women’s Day took place in the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
On March 8, women and even men gathered near the center of Bishkek to hold a women’s march. Women complain that people are used to seeing this holiday in the form of gifts and flowers. The march became a reminder of what the holiday is really about: women’s equality and emancipation.
The day before the event, the nationalist movement “Kyrk Choro” threatened to thwart the “unconventional”, in their opinion, event, but, fortunately, there were no clashes.
The police were obviously nervous and even drove the paddy wagon to the place of the rally. But there were no attacks on the protesters.
About 150 people took part in the march. People went to the streets with slogans about women’s rights, violence and sexism. Purple flags became the symbol of the march. As the participant of the march explained “purple is the color of feminism”.
Also, many people wrote their slogans about LGBT rights, corruption, and other issues that concern them.
The march in honor of the International Day of Women’s Solidarity and the struggle for equal rights takes place annually.
A rally for International Women’s Day in Bishkek. Photo by Aisha Jabbarova.
EDUCATION. chain of Colleges with thousands of students closes down.
Education Department approved a proposal by a Dream center, Christian non-profit organization to buy a chain of colleges with troubles. Some people predicted that this idea is going to fail, but no one expected it would be so fast. About a year after the deal, major part of DC campuses are out of money and are planned to be closed until Friday, 8th March. Other colleges were sold, hopefully they will survive.
Argosy University, South University and the Art Institutes are the ones, which have problems. They have about 26,000 students in medicine, psychology and law programs.
The problems started almost immediately after Dream Center bought the schools in 2017. They were accompanied by efforts of government to regulate for-profit colleges industry. The Dream Center’s began it’s charity 25 years ago. It has a network all over the country and it’s purpose is to solve problems like homelessness and domestic violence.
ADD-ons.
Photo of the week
Bogota, Colombia. Women participate in a rally during International Women’s Day celebrations. Photograph: Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters
We offer you to read this interesting article by Maya Salam about feminism in Sweden. So cool!
That’s it for today! Thanks for reading us and stay tuned for next weekly digest!
Digest was prepared by Smagulova Evelina, Mudegeyeva Dilnaz, Aubakirova Nargiz and Kulyassova Azhar.
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