Gender
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...
Kids who go to gender-neutral preschools in Sweden are more successful
In some kindergartens in Sweden, dolls and baby strollers mingle freely with cars and wooden blocks. Children are encouraged to explore their full range of emotions, meaning girls are not expected to suppress anger, and boys are not pressured to swallow their tears. And as it turns out, Read More...
Solar-powered MP3 player supports a top priority: Educating third world women
As we noted recently girls’ education and family planning are the most important elements of a successful climate change strategy and poverty alleviation. However, educating people in very poor countries that don’t have electricity is a challenge—especially when the majority of the population Read More...
Female-friendly Uber alternative Safr lauches with mission to empower women
Positioning itself as a female-friendly alternative to Uber, Safr, a new Boston ride-hailing service that launched last month, faces an uphill climb to take market share from an industry leader. But with Uber’s seemingly unending stream of bad news this year, and a new report revealing that Read More...