gender equality

In this Jan. 8, 2019, file photo, US Army troops training to serve as instructors participate in the new Army combat fitness test at the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade compound at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 
Military
Gender matters in the military: Part II
Military men and women exercise in a field.
Critical State
Gender matters in the military
Greek Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou poses for a photograph during an interview for The Associated Press, at Agios Kosmas marina in southern Athens, Feb. 4, 2021. Bekatorou is the most successful female athlete in Greek sporting history who rece
#MeToo
Greece ‘finally’ has its #MeToo moment 
Women hold protest signs and also wear face masks and plastic shields as they protest.
Women & Gender
In Turkey, a conservative push to remove domestic violence protections is met with an uproar
Protesters carry banners and placards at a demonstration during a women's strike (Frauenstreik) in Zurich, Switzerland June 14, 2019.
Protest
Thousands of women walk off jobs in Switzerland
A woman wearing a hat stands on a subway platform
Women & Gender
As ‘fed up’ women in Turkey leave marriages, domestic violence and divorce rates rise
Dominique Moceanu
Women & Gender
Our most-read stories about women in 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez greets supporters at her midterm election night party
Politics
Can quotas solve gender inequality in government?
Esther Armah
Sexuality
In Ghana, gender equality and economics clash
Arts, Culture & Media
Lucy Fixed Hollywood’s Female Superhero Problem
The pub in London, Ontario, at the center of the "Mind the Gap" gender spat
Business
Canadian pub fights complaint after it gives pay-gap discount to women
Germany
Economics
Study: German ‘pink tax’ makes everyday goods more expensive for women
women use smartphone
Culture
Stark numbers show who gets trolled the most online. See for yourself.
China's gold medal-winning Olympic volleyball team
Sports
Here’s some proof that women have always crushed the Olympics
China's gold medal-winning Olympic volleyball team
Sports
Here’s some proof that women have always crushed the Olympics
Runners compete in the Women's Marathon during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Sports
See 120 years of struggle for gender equality at the Olympics
Sports
Want to win more medals in Olympic games? Close your gender gap.
A man sweeps the floor of his house in Alberta, Canada.
Development
Hey dads: How much housework do you do compared to other fathers?
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Development
8 depressing/uplifting things we learned about women this year
A baby
Development
Chart: The alarming rise in maternal mortality in the US
Sailor Moon cosplayers at the 2014 Amazing Arizona Comic Con.
Media
What Sailor Moon means to women all over the world
Research assistant Georgina Bowyer works on a vaccine for Ebola at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England, on January 16, 2015.
Science
Science isn’t just ‘boys with toys,’ and these ‘girls’ can prove it
Female passengers travel in the crowded ladies' compartment of a local train in Kolkata, India.
Justice
India’s anti-molestation heroines now face doubt and disapproval
A female rider on International Female Ride Day in Dubai.
Culture
On Dubai’s roads, women hop on Harleys and shatter stereotypes
Morocco's Family Code
Justice
Has Morocco’s ‘Family Code’ shown how gender equality can coexist with Islam in the courts?
Lifestyle
The life of the ideal woman, as seen through the eyes of India’s ‘Mad Men’
Graffiti lead photo
Arts
This Nicaraguan woman answers sexism with spraypaint
Waitresses at the Maid Cafe New York serve an order at the cafe on November 20, 2013. Such cafes have existed in Japan for years, designed to cater to the fantasies of anime and manga fans.
Culture
Why the deck is stacked against working-class feminists
Shabana Basij-Rasikh created the School of Leadership Afghanistan to help other young Afghan women improve their lives.
Conflict
An Afghan woman’s journey from ‘secret school’ to mentoring a generation of girls
The US Marine Corps C-130 Hercules named "Fat Albert," assigned to the US Navy “Blue Angels” flight demonstration team, uses Jet Assisted Take Off bottles during the 2005 Blue Angel Homecoming show.
Conflict
A Marine pilot breaks the gender barrier in one of the world’s most elite squadrons
Iranian women watch Iran's national soccer team conduct a training session ahead of the 2006 World Cup.
Sports
Iran’s female sports fans may finally get bleacher seats instead of jail time
Jean Jennings Bartik (left) and Frances Bilas Spence (right)  were part of a team of six women who programmed the ENIAC.
Technology
Finding the forgotten women who programmed the world’s first electronic computer
dalia koya
Global Politics
‘I am strong — I am not a victim,’ says this Turkish ‘co­-mayor’
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (C) poses with female delegates at the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) on International Women's Day in Beijing on March 8, 2015.
Justice
China detains female activists ahead of International Women’s Day
Development
A push to tackle issues of global gender inequality
Culture
Why Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th century feminist rock star
mosqueMuslim women arrive for the prayer service at the Women's Mosque of America in downtown Los Angeles in January. The mosque, the first of its kind in the US, launched with a women-led prayer service.
Belief
America’s first all-female mosque is receiving praise — and some pushback
The Gender Equality Workshop at National Taiwan University held a one-month event for male students to wear skirts and share their experience.
Lifestyle
Male university students in Taiwan wear skirts to support transgender community
Portraits of women around the globe
Justice
When a country has problems, women are often the answer
Lawrence Summers, former US treasury secretary and Harvard president, ignited a firestorm on gender issues a decade ago this month.
Culture
Larry Summers ‘may have done a service to women’ with his sexist remarks
The Mraqisa family (L to R): father Lindela, son Bukho, daughter Ongeziwe and mother Nosicelo outside their home in Gugulethu Township.
Development
These South African men tackle violence against women — starting with themselves
Members of the All India Mahila Congress, the women's wing of the Congress {arty, carry placards that read, "The country is covered in shame..."  The women were protesting the rape of a female passenger by an Uber taxi driver in New Delhi.
Justice
An alleged rape by an Uber driver is one more sign of India’s gender violence problem
Footage of two Indian sisters defending themselves from harrassment was filmed on a phone by a fellow passenger.
Justice
Indian sisters revive the country’s debate over women’s safety by fending off male attackers on camera
Lebanese singer Sabah poses for a photograph at the Comfort Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, 2009.
Music
An Arab American remembers the late Lebanese singer Sabah
Afghan mother, Rezagul, and daughter who attacked Taliban
Conflict
An Afghan mother’s revenge attack on the Taliban makes her a national hero
More than half of women in Mumbai, India don’t have indoor toilets. On average, women hold their bladders for 13 hours each day.
Development
Women in India agitate for their right to pee
Female Indonesian police officers stand guard outside the presidential palace during a protest against the recent fuel price hike in Jakarta on November 19th, 2014.
Justice
Indonesia has subjected policewomen to ‘humiliating’ virginity tests for decades
Kenyan women take part in a protest along a main street in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on November 17, 2014. They were demanding justice for a woman who was attacked and stripped recently by men who claimed that she was dressed indecently.
Justice
Miniskirts are only a symptom of Kenya’s problems with women, protesters say
A woman holds a birth control pill at her home in Nice, France.
Health
The inside, not-always-ethical story of how ‘The Pill’ was made
Gloria and Farai
Justice
Gloria Steinem continues to fight for equality for all women
Gloria Steinem
Feminism, Activism, and Chosen Family
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella speaks at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Business
Telling women not to ask for raises wasn’t a gaffe — it was a long-established tradition
An employee demonstrates the preparation to take eggs with a needle at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu in northern Taiwan.
Health
Egg freezing may be more of a distraction than a big new perk for tech employees
Staff from the Indian Space Research Organization celebrate at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore after their Mars Orbiter spacecraft successfully entered Mars orbit on September 24, 2014.
Science
Women are the face of India’s Mars mission, but they’re still the exception
Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and members of his cabinet pose with President Giorgio Napolitano.
Global Politics
Lawmakers in this European country are considering a ‘pink quota’ to achieve gender parity in politics
Global Politics
Why an Italian Firm is Targeting its Female Staff
Lifestyle & Belief
Iranian women petition for legal equality