カテゴリー: Women
Ryu Ho-jeong, 28, says she wore colourful outfit to challenge male dominance in parliamentSouth Korea is again confronting its outdated attitudes towards women in the workplace after a female MP was criticised for attending a parliamentary session in a…
Vidya Balan puts in a blazing performance as the eponymous Indian maths genius in Anu Menon’s characterful feminist life storyIn recent years, the Hindi film mainstream has become more proactive about telling the stories of notable women. This new one …
Series following contestants hoping to be chosen for arranged marriage has divided opinion in India“Richa has beauty, she has smile, she’s tall, slim, trim, educated, from a good family. I can give her, I think, 95 marks out of 100.”The comments, made …
Sima Taparia has arranged scores of marriages for wealthy singletons. Now she’s the subject of a Netflix reality show“Compromise and adjustment is what I tell all my clients – you need to lower your expectations,” says Sima Taparia. Speaking over video…
More than 500,000 people sign petition calling for quiet family funeral for Park Won-soon amid sexual harassment allegationsA row has broken out over whether the mayor of Seoul, who was found dead last week in an apparent suicide, should be given a pub…
Sex workers have spent decades working with the government. This has proved life-saving during the Covid-19 crisisCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe week before New Zealand went into full lockdown on 26 March, Lana*, 28, ha…
Violence against women is endemic in Afghanistan; with services closed by the pandemic, those working with abused women are terrified for their clientsEvery morning Marzia Akbari, a 25-year-old psychologist from the western Afghan city of Herat, wakes …
Formation of the Women’s party comes after campaigns to end spy cam porn and rebellions against strict beauty standards in the conservative nationTwo years year after South Korea became the centre of Asia’s #MeToo movement, the country’s first feminist…
Alleged ringleader forced victims to carve ‘slave’ into their bodies and send him degrading images that were shared with scores of othersA sexual blackmail ring that operated on the app Telegram and targeted dozens of women, including underage girls, h…
Four found guilty of attack that shocked the world were hanged in capital on Friday morningIndia has hanged four men who were convicted for the rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012, in a case that shocked the world and shamed the …
On International Women’s Day, let’s commit to properly compensating women for the unpaid and underpaid work they have always doneThe world would stop running were it not for the unpaid and underpaid work undertaken by women. It is past time for our con…
Pioneering Rajasthan initiative helps health workers reach families in greatest need first, increasing identification of malnutrition and issues in pregnancyIt’s 10am and time for the first home visit of the day. After consulting a colour-coded map on …
Creators of Meray Paas Tum Ho could be facing legal suit amid accusations the hugely popular show was ‘misogynistic’A court in Pakistan has summoned the creators of a wildly popular television series after a petition was filed demanding they apologise …
The signing of the treaty marks the point at which Māori women began to be written out of historyThis week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from Māori writers.This year I’m not interested in the symbolism of w…
Teresa Xu says doctor told her to hurry up and get married before having childrenAt the end of last year, Teresa Xu visited a hospital in Beijing to discuss options for freezing her eggs. The doctor said she could not help Xu, a single woman, because i…