women Archives - NEPS News https://nepsnews.in/tag/women/ Independent Online News Sun, 28 Apr 2024 05:51:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://nepsnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-09-at-13.03.36-1-32x32.jpeg women Archives - NEPS News https://nepsnews.in/tag/women/ 32 32 Becoming a mother was impossibly hard during Covid. Has anything changed since? https://nepsnews.in/2024/04/28/becoming-a-mother-was-impossibly-hard-during-covid-has-anything-changed-since/ https://nepsnews.in/2024/04/28/becoming-a-mother-was-impossibly-hard-during-covid-has-anything-changed-since/#respond Sun, 28 Apr 2024 05:51:15 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=4362 Rates are improving in the US as healthcare organizations take steps to confront the continuing crisis. Still, new mothers often feel alone: ‘People don’t know what to do’

Maggie Doherty

fter five months of maternity leave with her second baby, a daughter born on 26 March 2020, Pam Lins felt she was ready to return to work and start a new role.… Read the rest

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2024/04/28/becoming-a-mother-was-impossibly-hard-during-covid-has-anything-changed-since/feed/ 0 My friend says eating lots of sugar ages the skin. Is she right? https://nepsnews.in/2024/04/20/my-friend-says-eating-lots-of-sugar-ages-the-skin-is-she-right/ https://nepsnews.in/2024/04/20/my-friend-says-eating-lots-of-sugar-ages-the-skin-is-she-right/#respond Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:05:03 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=4314 Got a niggling beauty question? Our expert is on hand. This week, Alice is concerned that her sweet tooth will cause skincare problems

Anita Bhagwandas

One of the joys of being a beauty journalist is the unsolicited advice. A skin expert once glanced at my face and said, “You eat loads of sugar, don’t you?”… Read the rest

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2024/04/20/my-friend-says-eating-lots-of-sugar-ages-the-skin-is-she-right/feed/ 0 Roughly 9,000 women killed so far in Gaza war: UN Women https://nepsnews.in/2024/03/03/roughly-9000-women-killed-so-far-in-gaza-war-un-women/ https://nepsnews.in/2024/03/03/roughly-9000-women-killed-so-far-in-gaza-war-un-women/#respond Sun, 03 Mar 2024 13:40:46 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=4133

The Gaza conflict “is also a war on women”, who continue to suffer its devastating impacts, the UN agency championing gender equality has said.

UN Women estimated that 9,000 women have been reportedly killed by Israeli forces since the war erupted nearly five months ago.

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2024/03/03/roughly-9000-women-killed-so-far-in-gaza-war-un-women/feed/ 0 ‘Gender inequities are important’: why couples fall out of love https://nepsnews.in/2024/01/30/gender-inequities-are-important-why-couples-fall-out-of-love/ https://nepsnews.in/2024/01/30/gender-inequities-are-important-why-couples-fall-out-of-love/#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:32:21 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3982

A new study unpicks the reasons men and women call time on a relationship and finds that micro-grievances really do matter

Andrew Anthony

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women,” observed the late, great Nora Ephron.

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2024/01/30/gender-inequities-are-important-why-couples-fall-out-of-love/feed/ 0 Choosing childlessness for the sake of the planet https://nepsnews.in/2024/01/21/choosing-childlessness-for-the-sake-of-the-planet/ https://nepsnews.in/2024/01/21/choosing-childlessness-for-the-sake-of-the-planet/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:40:36 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3883 Public policies shouldn’t be shaped around boosting birth rates, says Madeleine Hewitt. Plus a letter from Val Harding

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hile it’s a tragedy that so many are afraid to have children due to climate breakdown, that doesn’t have to be a decision drawn from fear, but a positive, proactive choice to help solve the climate crisis (More people not having children due to climate breakdown fears, finds research, 9 November).… Read the rest

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2024/01/21/choosing-childlessness-for-the-sake-of-the-planet/feed/ 0 Sadistic and misogynistic? Row erupts over sex claims in book about George Orwell’s marriage https://nepsnews.in/2024/01/13/sadistic-and-misogynistic-row-erupts-over-sex-claims-in-book-about-george-orwells-marriage/ https://nepsnews.in/2024/01/13/sadistic-and-misogynistic-row-erupts-over-sex-claims-in-book-about-george-orwells-marriage/#respond Sat, 13 Jan 2024 05:52:05 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3824

Author of acclaimed biography Wifedom hits back at critics who say book casts Orwell in an unfairly negative light

Richard Brooks

eorge Orwell was in his mid-40s, enjoying the peak of his fame after the publication of Animal Farm. Yet his mood was low after the death of his wife, Eileen.

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2024/01/13/sadistic-and-misogynistic-row-erupts-over-sex-claims-in-book-about-george-orwells-marriage/feed/ 0 ‘I had to find a way to survive’: ultrarunner Sabrina Pace-Humphreys on racing, racism and learning to love the outdoors https://nepsnews.in/2023/12/25/i-had-to-find-a-way-to-survive-ultrarunner-sabrina-pace-humphreys-on-racing-racism-and-learning-to-love-the-outdoors/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/12/25/i-had-to-find-a-way-to-survive-ultrarunner-sabrina-pace-humphreys-on-racing-racism-and-learning-to-love-the-outdoors/#respond Mon, 25 Dec 2023 05:55:20 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3690 Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

ackling the toughest races in the world is all part of the day job for ultramarathoner Sabrina Pace-Humphreys. But where the hard work really begins is confronting racism. Here, she reveals what inspired her to set up the charity Black Trail Runners

We are at the beginning of a 5km trail run, passing through a sun-dappled woodland, when the ultramarathon runner Sabrina Pace-Humphreys says something that almost stops me in my tracks.… Read the rest

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/12/25/i-had-to-find-a-way-to-survive-ultrarunner-sabrina-pace-humphreys-on-racing-racism-and-learning-to-love-the-outdoors/feed/ 0 Scourge of racism haunts Black women and girls seeking healthcare https://nepsnews.in/2023/07/12/scourge-of-racism-haunts-black-women-and-girls-seeking-healthcare/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/07/12/scourge-of-racism-haunts-black-women-and-girls-seeking-healthcare/#respond Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:17:03 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=2796 Women and girls of African descent face a “systemic and historical pattern” of racial abuse in the health sector in countries across the world, leaving them at increased risk of death during childbirth, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency said on Wednesday.… Read the rest

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/07/12/scourge-of-racism-haunts-black-women-and-girls-seeking-healthcare/feed/ 0 ‘I started to unravel’: Why do so many women over 40 struggle with stress? https://nepsnews.in/2023/06/24/i-started-to-unravel-why-do-so-many-women-over-40-struggle-with-stress/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/06/24/i-started-to-unravel-why-do-so-many-women-over-40-struggle-with-stress/#respond Sat, 24 Jun 2023 04:45:11 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=2528 Lorraine Candy

I coped with kids and a busy career, so why was I suddenly overwhelmed?

Have you found out about your windows of tolerance yet: those moments when you feel fully capable of handling any stress life throws at you?

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]]> https://nepsnews.in/2023/06/24/i-started-to-unravel-why-do-so-many-women-over-40-struggle-with-stress/feed/ 0 New UN report reveals chronic bias against women over last decade https://nepsnews.in/2023/06/12/new-un-report-reveals-chronic-bias-against-women-over-last-decade/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/06/12/new-un-report-reveals-chronic-bias-against-women-over-last-decade/#respond Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:50:38 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=953

A new UN report launched on Monday revealed no improvement in the level of prejudice shown against women over the past decade, with almost nine out of 10 men and women worldwide, still holding such biases.

“Half of people worldwide still believe men make better political leaders than women, and more than 40 per cent believe men make better business executives than women,” according to the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in its latest Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) report.

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