News for Today

Contributed by Karol Arambula

'Why business schools ignore women' (Business Week):

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-28/why-business-schools-ignore-women

'Women's rights under threat in Iraq' (Human Rights Watch):

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/26/women-s-rights-under-threat-iraq

'African women making progress in battle for equal rights' (The Guardian):

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/mar/28/african-women-progress-equality-afrobarometer-report-2014

'Does what women wear to work matter?' (CNN):

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/26/opinion/drexler-loyola-memo/

'Report: Black women are political powerhouse yet remain socially vulnerable' (The Washington Post):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/03/27/report-black-women-are-political-powerhouse-yet-remain-socially-vulnerable/

'How being ignored helped a woman discover the breast cancer gene' (NPR):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/03/27/295270360/how-being-ignored-helped-a-woman-discover-the-breast-cancer-gene

'IMF's Lagarde: Women in workforce key to healthy economies' (NPR):

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/28/294715846/imfs-lagarde-women-in-workforce-key-to-healthy-economies

'Holding back half the nation' (The Economist):

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21599763-womens-lowly-status-japanese-workplace-has-barely-improved-decades-and-country