Gender
Iceland becomes first country to ban pay discrimination on the basis of gender
Iceland has found a solution to closing the gender pay gap. The island-nation simply made it illegal as of January 1. The law isn’t complicated either: Under it, companies and government agencies employing at least 25 people will have to obtain government certification of their equal-pay Read More...
These 7 brave women show why ‘Feminism’ is the word of 2017
2017 was a busy year for the feminist movement. It was kicked off with the Women’s Marches that took place across the world in January, and was rounded off with #MeToo movement that brought harrowing accounts of sexual harassment and assault out in the open.That’s why it’s no wonder that Read More...
The challenge: Men teach gender studies and mostly women take them
Even though the course is called “gender studies,” the overwhelming majority of people attending such courses are women. The imbalance seems bizarre, especially when so many men are engaged in gender debates these days. So why do so few men enroll in gender studies Read More...
Michael Moore: “Use this moment to create a world without Harveys”
Filmmaker Michael Moore posted a 1,108-word statement on how to free Hollywood from Harvey Read More...
Why have so few women been awarded Nobel Prizes?
This is an important question. And the answer of the Nobel Prize committee is sincere but not satisfying. Since the Nobel Peace Prize was founded in 1901, women have only won 49 out of the 923 prizes; that is about one in every 20. See here what the committee had to Read More...
After decades of struggle, women will finally be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia
Although women and men are far from equal in Saudi Arabia, great progress was made after a new royal decree granted women the right to drive cars. The decision comes just a week after a broad reform program was implemented that now allows women to enter sports stadiums for the first time. The royal Read More...
The biggest myth about our brains is that they are "male" or "female"
Daphna Joel was already an established neuroscientist in 2009, when she chose to launch a gender studies course at Tel Aviv University. While preparing the class curriculum, she became deeply interested in the mechanisms through which gender is formed. Her research led her to an experiment by a Read More...
India court bans Islamic instant divorce in big win for women’s rights
India is known as a Hindu country. However, the country has a large Muslim minority of 180 million people almost as many as in full-Muslim neighboring Pakistan. In 1961, Pakistan banned an ancient Muslim practice allowing Muslim men to dissolve marriages by pronouncing the word “divorce” three Read More...
We need more female leaders and to get there we need… female leaders
We need more women in areas that have traditionally attracted mainly men. Silicon Valley is one example and recent developments show how hard it is for women to find equality in that world. Given the impact of Silicon Valley on almost everything in society, that lack of equality is a major obstacle Read More...
Jordanian parliament removes law that allows rapists to marry their victims
Following in the footsteps of Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt, Jordan's parliament has voted to remove the provision that allows rapists to escape punishment by marrying their victims. The vote was hailed as a major step forward for women in the conservative Read More...