Tag: women

Nurul is top woman in media coverage

Originally posted on MoCS:
By Priscilla Prasena But a survey finds that the press pays much more attention to male personalities in articles on the general election. PETALING JAYA:  Nurul Izzah Anwar is the most frequently mentioned woman in media articles on the run-up to the May 5 general election, according to a survey conducted…

My Foray Into the Underground

As a girl of 14, sitting in the backseat of my dad’s car, I remember fuming to myself when I heard him say “Girls can’t do certain things.” “WHY NOT!”” I screamed at him silently in my head. So fueled was I by angsty teenage hormones and self-righteous anger, I actually scribbled down in pencil, […]

The Rising Population of Young Mothers

“There is poor, inadequate and suppressed awareness on fertility, adolescent sexuality and development. Some of them don’t even know why they got pregnant because they don’t know how their body works,” said Kitong.  Solid proof that education is absolutely vital; self-education even more so. How do we allow  the younger generation of the world go […]

International Women’s Day: It Cannot Be Okay

While skimming through tweets, I read one that posed this question: What do we fight for on International Women’s Day? Which issues should we focus on? What does it mean to be a woman? It is officially International Women’s Day in my country. There will be a gathering of women, all sizes and shapes, all […]

Undoing Damage

There are conversations you have with people that you can’t ever forget, even if you are no longer in their lives, or you in theirs. In 2009, I took on the role of editor for the Women’s Edition of Metior, Murdoch Guild’s student magazine. Part of my job constituted of commissioning articles, which is really […]