Europe

FRANCE/ The old guard faces off against prominent so-called women right’s defenders, as resignations provoke controversy inside Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s coalition. Julien Bayou is no longer co-president of the green group…

DOMESTIC/ Your husband is breaking promises and not listening to you. You’re hurt and frustrated, and desperate for things to change, but don’t act in haste or rage. In Europe,…

The annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meets in March each year to address the widespread inequalities, violence and discrimination women continue to face, all around the…

BUSINESS/ The vast majority of women who have founded their own business, have been sexually harassed while trying to secure funding, new polling suggests. CEOs dismissed as “little girls” and…

GENEVA(AP)/ Elisabeth Kopp, an advocate of equal rights and the environment who was the first woman elected to Switzerland’s seven-member executive branch, has died. She was 86. Kopp died in…

Analysis of media organizations and news stories shows underrepresentation across editorial leadership and coverage Women of color are suffering from a “culture of exclusion” that is seeing them passed over…

Switzerland/ More than 2,000 Swiss women, their ages averaging in the low 70s, are suing their country’s government, arguing that Switzerland has violated their basic human rights by not doing enough…

GENDER PAY GAP/ Few women will be surprised to learn that even when wives earn about the same as their husbands or more, a new Pew Research Center study finds…

IWG’s Chief Commercial Officer Fatima Koning on why so many women are leaving senior leadership positions – and what firms can do about it For women in the workplace, it’s…

UKRAINE/ Nearly 8 million Ukrainians have fled their homeland since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor on 24 February 2022. The majority of the Ukrainian refugees are women…