When police brutalize pregnant women
By Alex Ronan From New York Mag Police-body-camera footage that surfaced recently shows two California cops wrestling an eight-months-pregnant black woman to the ground as she screams, “Please! I’m pregnant!” in late January. A white woman who has not been…
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Cayman Islands Community Events THU JUNE 4 Dart Realty Presentation The Chief Operating Officer of Dart Realty will be hosting a public presentation on the Dart group of companies’ upcoming real estate development plans on Thursday (4 Jun) at 5:30…
Jury sides with Merck in pregnancy discrimination case
By Charles Toutant, From New Jersey Law Journal A federal jury in Newark has returned a defense verdict in favor of Merck & Co. in a gender and pregnancy discrimination suit brought by a company executive who claimed she was…
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Dying mother gives daughter a beautiful first birthday party
By Jeff Leeson From Mashable A mom losing her battle with breast cancer gave her daughter a first birthday to remember. Athena Krueger was diagnosed with stage 2 invasive ductal carcinoma — a form of breast cancer — while pregnant…
Women’s Football Day – Spotlight on Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands Football Association conducted the first CONCACAF Women’s Football Day activity by hosting a tremendously successful and inspiring Women’s Football Forum on Thursday, May 21 at the Harquail Theatre. The evening featured two panels, moderated by acclaimed sports…
Wedding of millennium
‘The wedding of the millennium’ involved a 17-year-old Chechen woman being forced to marry a married man 30 years older By Elena Holodny From Business Insider A 17-year-old girl was forced to marry a man who was already married and…
9 things we’re so grateful mom taught us about money
By Mary Beth Quirk From Consumerist Today is the day we pause to reflect on everything our mothers have given us, from kisses on scraped knees and comfortable laps to sit on, to financial wisdom that has the power to…
SLC woman brings national fundraising charity to Utah
By Faith Heaton Jolley From KSL Utah SALT LAKE CITY — Four hundred dollars and four hours a year — that’s what an efficient, national fundraising organization requires from its members to help local charities, and a Utah woman recently…
Debugging the gender gap: New documentary explores the complicated matter of the lack of women in tech
By Erin Carson From Tech Republic CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap’s director and producer Robin Hauser Reynolds tells TechRepublic why tech’s diversity problem affects everyone, not just women. Filmmaker Robin Hauser Reynolds saw a seemingly simple situation that didn’t make…
Challenging the power of the one percent
By Lydia Alpízar Durán From Caribbean Life SAO PAULO (IPS) – When you are faced with the task of moving an object but find it is too heavy to lift, what is your immediate and most natural response? You ask…
