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'Give women early pension access' - MPs

2016-03-15 05:31:48| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The government should give some women early access to their state pension if they accept lower weekly payments, a committee of MPs recommends.

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Women and climate change: Vulnerable, but not helpless

2016-03-13 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Rappler: The threat of climate change is not gender neutral. Women and their children will have to suffer a disproportionate amount of the impacts of the changing climate. This disproportionality is due to the systemic inequality between men and women in society which, with its historical underpinnings, render women at a disadvantage. It has unfavorable impacts on the independence and decision-making power of women and affects them economically, politically, and socially, among others. This in turn constrains...

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Women on the Front Lines Fighting Fracking in the Bakken Oil Shale Formations

2016-03-12 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: There are some crystalline moments in which the challenges we face as a civilization become brutally clear. Moments in which corrupt aspects of American democracy and the fractures in our social, economic and political systems are exposed with unsurpassed clarity. Moments in which we are reminded of how fundamentally ruptured our dominant cultures relationship with the Earth has become and in which we see before our eyes how this split has led to almost unfathomable acts of violence against the...

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