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“Changes that facilitate equal participation of men and women in the workplace and in the home.”
An organisational behaviour expert from London Business School has challenged the assumption that working women need flexibility to be happy.
In an interview with The Guardian, published last month, Dr Celia Moore, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School, said the assumption was a form of “benevolent sexism”.
“Understanding that women who are parents face different challenges is incredibly important,” she said.
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Kent SprouseA man convicted of killing 2 during a robbery was executed tonight in Huntsville, Texas.Kent Sprouse, 42, was declared dead at 6:33 p.m.Sprouse becomes the fifth person executed this year in Texas, which puts to death more inmates than any other state.The U.S. Supreme Court in
Anthony Hinton, just after his release from jail on Friday, March 3, 2015.‘They tell you justice is blind. I am telling you that justice can see.'Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted of murdering two fast food restaurant managers in
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Indonesia's Attorney-General H. M. PrasetyoLawyers for the Bali nine pair have denied a challenge filed in the Constitutional Court on Thursday is a tactic to delay the executions of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.Attorney-General H. M. Prasetyo has accused the men's legal team of "playing with
The National Latino Evangelical CoalitionThey are the 1st national association of evangelical congregations to take a position in favour of death penalty repeal. Many Catholic groups support them.In a unanimous vote on Friday March 27, the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NaLEC) urged its08
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It’s time for stronger action to protect our children.By Seema Malhotra.The NSPCC’s ChildLine report has shown a hard truth – about how children and young people today are exposed to shocking levels of pornography.They are under pressure like never before to engage in sexual activities at a08
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Jurors begin the process of determining Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's fate on 30 federal charges connected to the deadly twin attacks.Jurors have begun deliberating in the federal death penalty case of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Tsarnaev faces 30 federal charges in connection with the
Indonesian President Joko WidodoThe majority of Indonesians say they support President Joko Widodo's decision to enforce the death penalty for drug traffickers, according to a survey released amid appeals for clemency from several death row drug convicts.Jakarta-based survey agency Indo Barometer07
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Helping change the way the food companies that make your favourite brands do business.In 2013 Oxfam launched the Behind the Brands campaign, which used consumer power to hold the world’s largest food and beverage companies to account for the impact their business has on the world and its07
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has beheaded one of its own citizens after sentencing him to death on charges related to drug trafficking.The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency that the man known as Saleh al-Yami was
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Firing-squad execution in ChinaThe planned executions of nine prisoners on death row in Indonesia has drawn focus back to the contentious political and social issues of capital punishment around the globe, but most particularly in Asia where it is still widely used.This article will look into some(Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev followed his older brother's lead in carrying out the 2013 bombing that killed three people, rather than acting on his own motivation, one of his attorneys argued on Monday.Tsarnaev, 21, could be sentenced to death if a jury finds him09
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Niranjela Karunatilake (left) and Roshine Singam show their supportfor Myuran Sukumaram at an art gallery in Amsterdam, Holland.Picture: David Dyson Source: News Corp AustraliaA COUSIN
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Kent SprouseKent Sprouse is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 2002 murders of a police officer and a gas station customer.Sprouse, 42, was convicted and sentenced to death for killing a Dallas police officer and a customer at a gas station in 2002.In March, Texas acquired a new supply of09
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Young people need to know they don’t have to face “honour” based violence, forced marriage or FGM.As part of its #RightToKnow campaign, IKWRO is asking everyone to ask their parliamentary candidates to commit to ensuring that every school is made “honour” based violence forced marriage and FGM08
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After sodomite suppression comes shellfish suppression.A lawyer named Matt McLaughlin filed a ballot initiative with the California's Department of Justice in February to enact the "Sodomite Suppression Act," which calls for the killing of anyone who engages in sodomy. (Never mind that the death08
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Roma women are confronted with complex and multidimensional forms of discrimination and exclusion.While Roma identity is firmly rooted in tradition, the European Roma Information Office, (ERIO), said, we must not focus on the stereotypical image of the Roma.Instead, on International Roma Day08
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Drawing crowds: The last public hanging in Kentucky, August 14, 1936Since the nineteenth century, American elites have searched for a mode of execution that was professional in appearance and humane in practice, one that would display the state’s sober-minded restraint while taking life as quickly
The South Korean ferry capsized in April 2014killing 304 passengers.South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday (Apr 7) urged an appeals court to hand down the death penalty for the captain of the ferry that sank a year ago, accusing him of intentionally abandoning more than 300 people to their certain07
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Two death row convicts were hanged on Tuesday in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a media report said.Jafar, convicted of a dual murder in 1997, was hanged in Sahiwal Central Jail, Dawn online reported.He was sentenced to death in 2000. Jafar was scheduled to be hanged on March 25, 2015 but his07
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‘The nearest thing to gender balance in the history of British democracy’.The positive coverage of the female politicians in last week’s leaders’ debate shows that it’s high time there were more women in politics.Much of the media analysis of last week’s leaders’ debate on Channel 407
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Public hanging in Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsWhile the number of executions worldwide is decreasing, some countries are continuing to execute hundreds of prisoners every year.Executions worldwide are down almost 22 % to 607, according to a recent Amnesty International report, but that06
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Boston Marathon bombing finish line(Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev "wanted to punish America" when he killed three people and injured 264 with a pair of homemade bombs at the 2013 race, a federal prosecutor said on Monday.In closing arguments before a jury decides
Oklahoma lawmakers voted Thursday to reinstate the gas chamber as a backup execution method to lethal injection.The Oklahoma Senate voted 41-0 in favor of HB 1879, which legalizes execution by nitrogen hypoxia. Said by supporters to be more humane than using gases that cause suffocation, nitrogen09
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(AP) -- The Missouri Supreme Court has vacated its May 12th execution order for a former St. Louis jailer.Kimber Edwards was convicted of hiring someone to kill his ex-wife in August 2000.The man Edwards was convicted of hiring, Orthell Wilson, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was09
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“I am one of those foreigners”: living with HIV in the UK.By Silvia Petretti.HIV is easily treatable with pills. But there are no pills for stigma. Stigma grows on the ignorance behind the statement by Ukip’s leader Nigel Farage. There is no substance behind his words.The statement byBOSTON — After 11 hours of deliberations over two days, a federal jury on Wednesday found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a failing college student and the youngest child in a dispersed Russian immigrant family, guilty of the 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon, the worst act of terrorism on American soil08
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Florida International University's College of Law has received a grant to help defense lawyers handling capital cases.Over the next 2 years, the $620,000 grant will allow FIU professors to offer consultations and train lawyers on how to properly represent someone facing the death penalty including
Family members of Filipina maid Mary Jane Veloso facing execution inIndonesia appeal for clemency.The executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be unaffected by their next legal challenge because any win would not be retrospective, Indonesia's attorney-general says.The Bali
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Indonesia's Attorney-General Muhammad PrasetyoIndonesia’s Attorney-General says the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran may be delayed because it “doesn’t look good (to) shoot them” during a major international conference.There is now no legal impediment to the execution of the Bali07
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Jakarta: Indonesia's Constitutional Court has no power to alter the death sentences of Bali nine organisers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan or make any ruling on their case, says Indonesian law expert Tim Lindsey.Instead, lawyers for the two men hope Indonesian President Joko Widodo will come07
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Somalia executed three Islamist militants on August 3, 2014.Even though the last official execution in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is known to have taken place in 2003, the country continues to reject recommendations to abolish the death penalty.This is indicative of trends across
The Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty of condemned war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman for killing 144 villagers at Sohagpur village in Sherpur during the 1971 Liberation War.A 4-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha passed the order rejecting
Zhou YongkangChina's former security chief Zhou Yongkang was charged Friday with bribery, abuse of power and disclosing state secrets, authorities said, making him the most senior official prosecuted in decades and setting the stage for a dramatic trial.Zhou -- seen as an adversary of President Xi