A Muslim cleric has been arrested on charges of blasphemy and hate speech in Indonesia after his decision to allow women to preach and pray beside men sparked a backlash in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
A recent survey of women entrepreneurs in the UK provided critical insights on gender bias in funding, revealing the biggest barrier faced by women in the business world is the lack of female decision-makers in these venture capital firms.
‘We were talking about representation very early on in a mainstream way’
Turns out, the existence of Mannish Women goes back far further than our modern discussions about gender. Starting in the mid 19th century, women not only dressed in masculine clothing, but acting, speaking, and living in mannish ways, became a concern. A growing trend to embrace the fashion styles of tailored suits brought...
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This year, facing stringent bans and terrifying health concerns, people fled their home states to get abortions or performed their own.
Facebook-parent Meta is the subject of four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory. Nonprofit Global Witness shared new research with CNN that it says shows the algorithm distributing job ads is based on gender...
Thriving surrogacy industry in Global South
The health ministry says making the pill more easily available "removes an important barrier".
For the first time in over thirty years, it makes sense to me to reconsider what feminism means. Trans people have been illuminating sex and gender in new and insightful ways. And for some time, escalating since 2004 with the proposed revisions in the UK Gender Recognition Act,[1] a substantial cohort of self-identified...
