Networking for Women articles

Recent articles from Networking for Women

A message from the chairperson.
October 1, 2003... During the past two months we have been witnessing and accompanying the struggle of the single-mothers that began with the widely publicized protest march of Vicky Knafo from Mitzpe Ramon to Jerusalem, on foot. The march, in protest of the cut backs in supplementary benefits and child support...

IWN case sets precedent verdict.
October 1, 2003... The Tel Aviv Labor Court set a precedent by ruling that a local municipality is liable to its worker who was sexually harassed by another worker. It awarded the worker, represented by the Israel Women's Network, compensation for negligence as the municipality failed to fulfill its obligations...

Ladies, your country needs you/Orna Ophir (Translated from Ma'ariv daily Newspaper, Nov 2002).
October 1, 2003... Occasionally it appears to us as though the gender equality revolution, or the feminist revolution, has achieved its objectives and that today it is possible to criticize it or alternatively to sit back and enjoy its fruits. News of such equal rights has not yet reached many women in the...

New project "Eshet Chail".
October 1, 2003... Due to the current economic situation, IWN has initiated a special program for women- single mothers and unemployed women- based on the successful program for economic empowerment amongst new immigrant Ethiopian Women- "Eshet Chail". The project goals are the advancement of women from...

2003- election year in Israel.
October 1, 2003... 18 women were elected to the 16th Kneeset!!. An important development that emerged from the last elections is the changing balance in the number of women from the left parties to the right parties. In the past, the majority of women Knesset Members were from the left side of the political...