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Several schools have brought in shorts for cheerleaders at baseball tournament while another positioned teachers between the cheerleaders and spectatorsHigh schools taking part in Japan’s annual spring baseball tournament are taking action to prevent s…
Read MoreFar-right Hindu nationalists are giving women prominence to mobilise others, but regressive patriarchal systems are embedded in their ideologyIt all started in the family WhatsApp group. A member of my extended family posted photos and videos of firewo…
Read MoreFemale prisoners are ‘supplied’ to male inmates of West Bengal jails, sexual abuse is commonplace and hundreds of children are born in prison. But the women are too scared to speak outWhen Tapas Kumar Bhanja was appointed to investigate conditions in W…
Read MoreExpense and challenge of balancing work and family life key factors in declining birthrate and shrinking populationChina is one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child, outstripping the US and Japan in relative terms, a prominent Chi…
Read MoreJapan is the only country in the world that requires spouses to use the same name, but after decades of inaction, appetite for change is buildingFor Akiko Saikawa, the administrative nightmare began soon after she married.The office worker from Tokyo h…
Read MoreMillions of women are being let down by lack of support during and after menopause. We asked six, from Brazil to Bangladesh, to share their stories of fighting stigma, dealing with symptoms and supporting othersRead more: A menopause revolution is stir…
Read MoreGirls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infidels’ for wearing ‘bad hijab’Girls as young as 16 have been arrested across the Afghan capital, Kabul, in the past week for violating the Taliba…
Read MoreStory of garment worker’s ordeal in Bangladesh, where she works in a factory producing clothes for brands including Tesco, Matalan and Next, shines light on low factory wagesEvery night, Ruby Rafiq* lies awake on the cold, hard floor of her small room,…
Read MoreDespite a ban on ‘ghag’ forced marriages, a man laid claim to Inteha when she was 12 years old. Now she lives in fear as her family fights for her right to marry the man of her choiceInteha Bibi’s happiest moment was her engagement last year. Everyone …
Read MoreAmanda Nell Eu’s drama is up for an Oscar but conservatism means viewers in her own country will see a version she disownsIt should be a moment of celebration for Malaysian cinema. Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes became the country’s first film to win t…
Read MoreThe story of girl’s refusal to be shamed by her gang-rape and a father’s fight for justice, defying a village’s hostility and the dead weight of patriarchy, is told in Nisha Pahuja’s film To Kill a TigerWhen his 13-year-old daughter stumbled home six y…
Read MoreAnger is still seen as admirable in men but unacceptable in women. It’s time to end the tyranny of gendered emotionsWhen the captain of the Indian women’s cricket team was banned for two matches and fined for smashing the stumps with her bat in an angr…
Read MoreProposed law aims to improve representation in a parliament where women hold only a little over 13% of seatsIndia’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill to reserve a third of seats for women, almost triple the current number, in a move that coul…
Read MoreThe 350 women of the Drukpa dragon order are highly skilled in martial arts, which they practise six days a week. They also help the sick, rescue animals, pick up litter and can rewire a templePhotographs and text by Skanda Gautam Continue reading…
Read MoreHomeworkers in an all-female cooperative in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu – known as India’s knitwear capital – took part in a photography project where they were given cameras to document their work. All the women belong to the Anukatham union, which is fightin…
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