Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Gender
01/21/2022
Chile’s president-elect names progressive, majority-women cabinet
Chile’s millennial president-elect, Gabriel Boric, has named a progressive cabinet, with a ministerial team which for the first time anywhere in the Americas is dominated by women.
01/20/2022
‘For the first time, I felt free’: Pakistan’s women-led livestock market
In rural provinces, women have always reared animals but are excluded from selling them. A new market is changing attitudes
01/12/2022
Driving change: the all-female garage shifting attitudes in northern Nigeria
The NGO Nana is upending gender norms in conservative Sokoto state, where one in 20 girls finish secondary school.
01/10/2022
Rachel Balkovec: New York Yankees name first female manager to Minor League Baseball affiliate
Rachel Balkovec will become the first female manager in Minor League Baseball after the New York Yankees appointed her to one of their affiliate teams.
12/08/2021
Saudi boxers train for the first women’s championship
Wrapping their fists in bands and putting on their boxing gloves, Saudi women prepare for the Kingdom's first female boxing tournament this weekend.
12/09/2021
Progress for Saudi Women Is Uneven, Despite Cultural Changes and More Jobs
At the cramped shop where Kholoud Ahmed sells the traditional Muslim women’s gowns known as abayas, the rainbow of colors is a revelation.
11/17/2021
An Indigenous Women’s Softball Team Beats Opponents, and Machismo
A Mayan team from a small community on the Yucatán Peninsula has caused a sensation by excelling as its athletes play barefoot and wear traditional dresses, breaking barriers with every game.
11/08/2021
Wang Yaping becomes first Chinese woman to complete spacewalk
Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping made history Sunday when she became the country's first woman to conduct a spacewalk, according to the national space agency.
11/01/2021
Norway’s beach handball team wins fight over sexist uniform rules
Female beach handball players will no longer have to compete in bikinis, the sport's international federation has decided some three months after a decision to fine Norway's team for wearing shorts instead of the regulation bikinis triggered widespread outrage.
10/15/2021
#MeToo, 4 years in: ‘I’d like to think now, we are believed’
To Charlotte Bennett, the new book that arrived at her Manhattan apartment this week — Anita Hill’s “Believing” — was more than just a look at gender violence. It was a dispatch from a fellow member of a very specific sisterhood — women who have come forward to describe misconduct they suffered at the hands of powerful men.
10/19/2021