Happy International Women's Day!

Thu Mar 8 11:18:51 UTC 2007

SALAM

       Happy  International Women's Day to everyone!
  Please colleagues,  we should n't forget the miseries of women in the Third World, Poor countries,  and in countries suffering from violence and chaotic situation as in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanstan since children and women are the victims and they are helpless.

      Please dont't foreget also that all the mirseries, catasrophes and wars in the world are planned by men's hellish plans and criminals. Sometimrs, I feel the World will live in Peace if it was ruled by Women.

      PLease don't foreget I am a mannnnnnnnnnnnnn!!! 

  Ibrahim Sallo

"Koller, Veronika" <v.koller at LANCASTER.AC.UK> wrote:
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  Happy Women's Day indeed! I started the day with a language and gender lecture for first-year undergraduates - and had to wipe off a crude drawing of male genitals from the board before I could start... a long way to go still.

  Best,
  Veronika

  Veronika Koller 
Lecturer in English Language 
Department of Linguistics and English Language 
Lancaster University 
Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YT 
Phone: ++44-(0)1524-594642 
Fax: ++44-(0)1524-843085 
Web: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/koller/index.htm 
  "It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." (Mary Wollstonecraft) 

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  From: International Gender and Language Association [mailto:GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Louise Sylvester
Sent: 08 March 2007 09:59
To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Happy International Women's Day!

    International Women’s Day was marked in the Metro (widely distributed free newspaper in the UK) by a story on the gap between women and men in status, security and pay; a piece on women starting up businesses being charged by banks 1% more in interest rates on loans; and an article about a planned police crackdown on gangs who bring women to Britain to sell as sex slaves. I noticed these because it’s Gender in the Workplace week on my Language and Gender course.

  There are also a story about a single mother who was told that her son is being taken off the waiting list for a kidney transplant because she is too stressed to cope with the transplant and caring for him afterwards (she says, but then he’ll die, God forbid, and you’ll see how stressed I can be) and a piece mothers who are dying needlessly around the world because they cannot get proper health care. 

  It seems that we need International Women’s Day to be more than a celebration.

  Louise

  Louise Sylvester
  Senior Lecturer in English
  School of English
  University of Central England in Birmingham

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  From: International Gender and Language Association [mailto:GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jane Sunderland
Sent: 08 March 2007 09:20
To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
Subject: Happy International Women's Day!

    A very happy Happy International Women's Day to everyone! 

    Let's not let this important day go unrecognised (as it sadly tends to in the UK).

    Jane

  Jane Sunderland
  Director of Studies, PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework and New Route PhD
  Dept. of Linguistics and English Language
  Lancaster University
  Lancs. LA1 4YT

  j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk

  For the new Gender and Language Journal (details and subscriptions), see

  http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60

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