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Japan’s new gender pay gap disclosure rules are set to be strengthened; requiring many Japanese firms to report new information by June next year. The move may improve diversity in…

The share of women on the management boards of Germany’s biggest companies surpassed the 20% mark for the first time last year; progress that still leaves Europe’s biggest economy lagging…

32 women in Saudi Arabia are preparing to complete the locomotive driving training program; so they can drive the high-speed trains between the cities of Mecca and Medina in this…

Same-sex marriage was declared legal in all American states by the US Supreme Court on June 26, 2015. So, the United States became the 18th country to recognize same-sex marriage.…

The main purpose of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is to draw the world’s attention to the widespread discrimination against many women around the world,…

Australian women have lower income, less labour force engagement and poorer health than men, a Monash University-led report has found. The first Australian Women’s Health and Wellbeing Scorecard: Towards equity for…

This year, lawmakers in more than 20 states have passed a plan to ban transgender kids from girls’ sports, under the guise of protecting women and girls. Bills have already…

Transforming Constitution-Building In a global context of democratic backsliding and growing intrastate and interstate conflicts, the imperative of women’s full and equal participation in constitution-building and peace processes is more…

Many women in England feel unsafe running in the dark, so they avoid it even though they like to do this exercise at night. According to Jahan Banou, by mid-October,…

The foreign fans descending on Doha for the 2022 World Cup will find a country where women work, hold public office and cruise in their supercars along the city’s palm-lined…