Gender
- Afghanistan, Contraception and family planning, Gender, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
The death of medical care for Afghan women | Letter
Dr Carol Mann says the world is silent while women in Afghanistan face a bleak future, in response to an artic…
- Afghanistan, Education, Faith schools, Gender, Global education, Islam, Religion, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Send your daughters or you get no aid’: the Taliban are making religious schools girls’ only option
Food handouts and employment are increasingly tied to Afghan families’ agreement to strict Islamic educationWh…
- Afghanistan, Beauty, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, World news
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operations…
- Afghanistan, Beauty, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, World news
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operations…
- Afghanistan, Gender, Global development, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, witho…
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Chinese officials warn women comedians that men are no laughing matter
The warning comes after a string of shows by women comedians joking about men went viralChinese provincial off…
- Cities and development, Delhi, Domestic violence, Gender, Global development, India, Life and style, Sexual violence, Society, South and Central Asia, Violence against women and girls, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals | Nilanjana Bhowmick
Segregation does not make going outside any safer or more comfortable for women – it only reinforces the idea …
- Activism, Afghanistan, Culture, Family, Father's Day, Feminism, Film, Gender, Global development, India, Life and style, Malala Yousafzai, Sexual violence, Short films, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Malala and Kiran faced violence, threats and shame. Now their fathers want ‘all men to stand with women’
Ziauddin Yousafzai and Ranjit appear in a new film in which they discuss fatherhood, courage, gender justice a…
- Discrimination at work, Gender, Global development, Guardian Careers, India, Inequality, Menopause, Money, Older people, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Work & careers, World news
I’m a woman of 48 – and as replaceable in the office as the swivel chair at my desk | Nilanjana Bhowmick
In India, as elsewhere, ‘menopenalisation’ means women in middle age are failed by their employers and wider s…
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She said no: marriages in China plummet to record low
Rate of marriages in China lowest since record keeping began in 1986, with cost of living and pushback against…
- Afghanistan, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Iran, Law, Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, Taliban, United Nations, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?
Activists hope a change in international law could help to address the intensifying erosion of women and girls…
- Afghanistan, Child rights, Children, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Law, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, United Nations, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Afghan women fight to hold Taliban to account over gender apartheid
What women face in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity, say activists pushing for recognition by UN Explai…
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Japan has just 13 female CEOs among top 1,600 companies, survey shows
Fewer than 1% of chief executive officers at the 1,643 firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange are women, sur…
- Afghanistan, Albania, Europe, Gender, Global development, Human rights, South and Central Asia, Women, Women in politics, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Afghan women meet in Albania in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban crackdown
Organisers of international summit hope to create pressure to reverse laws including a ban on women speaking i…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Brazil, Children, Christianity, Curriculums, Education, Gender, Ghana, Global development, Islam, LGBTQ+ rights, Middle East and North Africa, Pakistan, Philippines, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Schools, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, World news
Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’
Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rightsE…