Gender equality in israel

Equality is designed, and so is inequality - opinion

How feminist urbanism is rethinking public space design

Ella Katz Schonfeld.
First Lady Michal Herzog, the cover story of this issue, greets schoolchildren during an official visit to Australia.

Two years after October 7, Israeli women still battle for equality - from the editor

 Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, led through a small circle of senior advisers known as ‘Golda’s Kitchen’ from 1969 until 1974 – an exception in a political system where women’s authority has remained limited and largely isolated.

Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women in 2026 - analysis

Six new Israeli Reform rabbis, all women, were ordained last year at the Hebrew Union College Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem.

Female rabbi on healing Israel: Authority means service, not power - opinion


Likud's May Golan tapped for Israel's new Women's Status Ministry

May Golan's new ministry will be transferred some of the authority and responsibility currently held by the Social Equality Ministry, which is helmed by Amichai Chikli.

 MK May Golan visits at MK Itamar Ben-Gvir's makeshift office in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, February 14, 2022.

Women are smart, so why do men dominate in STEM?

Don’t quote me, but if Israel’s future lies with brains, not brawn, and it does for sure, we really do need more women to study science, technology, engineering and math (dubbed STEM). 

 Haredi women working at Matrix Global, a hi-tech company in Modi’in Illit.

Israel's Michal Herzog: Our duty this International Women's Day

Like Virginia Woolf, we are eager to discover what intellectual, social, and creative revolutions women can spark if they gain equal opportunities

 Michal Herzog speaks during a ceremony for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Rosh haShana (Jewish New Year) at the president's house with representatives of the diplomatic delegations to Israel in Jerusalem. September 20, 2022

Israeli women make up less than third of top business posts - report

The report looked at 100 leading companies in the various sectors and industries that make up the Israeli economy. 


Women's Day all year round at L’Oréal

L’Oréal recognized for gender equality by Bloomberg index for sixth consecutive year

 Eli Sagiv, CEO of the L'Oréal Israel Group

Two-thirds of Israelis oppose Netanyahu government's judicial reform - poll

Two-thirds of Israelis feel as though the Supreme Court should be able to strike down laws that are in conflict with the Israeli Basic Laws. 

 Israelis protest the judicial reform in Tel Aviv, Monday, February 20.

No female director-generals appointed by new gov't for first time in decades

The current government has brought about the sharpest drop in female representation in senior government positions in over 20 years.

 Women hold signs as they protest for women equality, in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2022.

Letters to the Editor January 18, 2023: Precautionary and preventative

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Gender equality gap persists in Israeli quality of life

23 of the indicators of Israel's quality of life examined by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics favored males, whereas 19 favored females.

Israeli protesters chant slogans as they march in the SlutWalk in central Jerusalem, on June 18, 2021.

Letters to the Editor November 30, 2022: Heal the divide

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters