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Julia Gillard: We can’t own girls. We owe themTheresa May: Our original domestic violence bill will outlaw economic and physical abuse 1.32am GMTIn Spain, a strike by women means hundreds of trains have been cancelled on International Women’s Day, or AFP reports:More than 300 trains have been cancelled on Thursday throughout Spain as workers travel on strike to defend womens rights on International Women’s Day,the country’s transport ministry announced.
Some 200 intercity trains out of 568 won’t be operating, while 105 long-distance trains are cancelled, and it said. 1.17am GMTMy colleague Eleanor Ainge Roy reports from Dunedin:Only 18% of original Zealand businesses had women in senior management roles,a global study by Grant Thornton has found, down from 20% in 2017 and 31% in 2004. This means original Zealand has dropped from being one of the top 10 countries in the world for gender equality, and to number 33 out of 35 surveyed.
We need to focus on Maori and Pasifika women. The lowest paid women need to be prioritised because they are the ones that are suffering the most at the moment and we have a responsibility to elevate them.
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Source: guardian.co.uk