Gender

Study: How donors can improve humanitarian aid for women

A SID-Israel study found donor demands shape women’s aid programs more than policies. A new toolkit seeks to change this through a project honoring Vivian Silver.

|ByWALLA! MONEY
The late Vivian Silver. The peace and gender equality activist who was murdered on October 7
Brown University President Christina Paxson listens during a press conference.

Brown University president Christina Paxson to step down after Trump administration clashes

Paxson said she planned to leave her job a year earlier, but extended her tenure at the university to "navigate a federal funding freeze that imperiled our mission."

|ByREUTERS
ELLA HAVIN, medical student: In her Ben-Gurion University class, women comprise roughly 70% of students.

A regressive step: Israel's gender segregation law undermines medical education, equality - opinion

Gender segregation has no place in medical training. It risks sidelining women, weakening universities, and damaging the international standing of Israeli medicine.

|ByBRENDA KATTEN
Activists protest against a bill promoting gender-segregated academic study tracks, introduced by MK Limor Son Har-Melech, outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 6, 2026.

Haredi women, academics file petition against Israel's new gender-segregated education law

The petition was filed hours after the Knesset approved an amendment to the law which expressly allows the Council for Higher Education to approve separate programs for men and women.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

‘Valeria is Getting Married’: On arranged marriages and power imbalances

Michal Vinik is interested in issues that have to do with gender and power and this movie focuses on a severe power imbalance in an arranged marriage.

MARCH 27, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
LENA FRAIFELD in Michal Vinik’s ‘Valeria is Getting Married.’

The importance and benefits of promoting gender equality 

MARCH 20, 2023ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
On the cover_ (L-R) Gǒng Lì, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King

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. 

MARCH 7, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

LGBTQ+ families are as healthy or healthier than heteronormative ones -study

An analysis found that parental sexual orientation is not an important determinant of childhood development.

MARCH 7, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Participants celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade in Sydney, Australia, February 29, 2020.

Improving women’s equality helps men live longer too- study

Researchers found that gender equality in education had the strongest association with longer life expectancy for both genders.

MARCH 7, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Amy Bettys, co-chair of the Women's Health and Reproductive Rights organization, raises her fist during a chant outside of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office in support of the Reproductive Health Act during a Reproductive Rights rally in the Manhattan borough of New York, US, March 22, 2017.

Protests break out in Iran over schoolgirl illnesses

Iran rejected what it views as foreign meddling and "hasty reactions" and said on Friday it was investigating the causes of the incidents.

MARCH 4, 2023ByREUTERS
A group of schoolgirls in Iran.

Purim: The varying interpretations of the Book of Esther

The Book of Esther is an ongoing challenge in terms of family relations, responsibility, the nature of celebration, the import of records, the nature of historical “truth,” etc.

MARCH 4, 2023ByBENJAMIN SEGAL
Book of Esther, written on a scroll (‘megillah’) to be read on the festival of Purim. Parchment, from Alsace, 18th century; now in the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam.

Men take bigger financial risks than women - study

A study found that men are likely to view information about investment opportunities optimistically while women think more critically and are more risk-averse.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Shekels and dollars

Men or women: Who is more productive working from home? - study

The study collected data from dual-earning couples in China and Taiwan. It consisted of surveying 222 couples twice a day.

JANUARY 14, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A man working from home works on his laptop from bed.

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.

JANUARY 11, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli protesters chant slogans as they march in the SlutWalk in central Jerusalem, on June 18, 2021.