Sexism

Syrian university restriction on female enrollment deepens concerns over women’s rights

Syria’s Higher Education Ministry announced that admission to law, economics and management, and social sciences programs at the National University of Defense Sciences would be restricted to men.

Women walk past a mural with the slogan "no to violence" (against women) drawn on the walls of a school in Syria's northern city of Manbij on December 21, 2024.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth holds a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, US, March 2, 2026

Hegseth blocked female, minority Navy officers from promotion to admiral - report

Posters advertising the Zefat Academic College were vandalized to hide the image of women.

Images of female Zefat Academic College students vandalized in Safed

Iranian state media censors legs of foreign officials at UNGA.

'They panic at our ankle': Iran censors legs of Swedish, Finnish FMs at UNGA


People need to be less afraid of presenting views opposed to the 'mainstream' - editorial

While it's important to create safe environments, it's also important not to make people suffer for their views opposed to mainstream opinion.

Today’s youths prefer to share their feelings and emotions through texts and online, in social media, in chat platforms while gaming and in other similar settings

Male executives control 99 times more S&P 500 shares than women

The disparity means male executives held about $770 billion worth of shares in S&P 500 companies in 2020, a study found.

 People walk by the Fearless Girl statue outside of the New York Stock Exchange on August 10, 2021, in New York.

Women are more likely to feel stressed about their finances than men - now what?

Money can be a stressor for all Americans — but more often than not, women are the ones worrying the most about it. Here are six ways to get over it.

 Money can be a stressor for all Americans — but more often than not, women are the ones worrying the most about it.

Israel's pickup artists: A self-help community's dark side

The community promising men success with women isn’t as positive and exciting as it may seem – it often reinforces damaging attitudes and behaviors.

 PROTESTING SEXISM in Madrid.

Taliban regime's evil just beginning to be revealed - analysis

The Taliban's rule over Afghanistan looks to be returning to the horrors of the 1990's.

 Taliban members Muhammad Aref and Junaid, greet each other at a checkpoint, as a woman in a burqa walks behind them, in Kabul, Afghanistan

Women's fates should not be held by men - opinion

When a Jewish woman wants to get divorced, she has to face a panel of three men who hold her future in their hands.

 THE RABBINICAL COURT’S Division for Agunot in Jerusalem. ‘It’s high time for there to be women’s representatives in the rabbinical courts.’

Women's orgs fight sexist ad promoting weight loss for marriage

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz: "A bas Yisroel (daughter of Israel, or young Jewish woman) should be cherished for her neshama (soul) not be shamed for her body image."

 FAT-SHAMING is just one of the problems with the ‘Family First’ ad, which also ‘singles-shames.’

Unsex me here - opinion

The logic escapes me. 

 Lady Macbeth

Women are using TikTok to fight sexual harassment

Women are putting an end to sexual harassment on the video-focused service

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Mike Richards quits as ‘Jeopardy!’ host after comments about women, Jews

The comments elicited widespread criticism, including from the Anti-Defamation League, which called for Richards to be investigated.

Demonstrators take part in an antisemitism protest outside the Labour Party headquarters in central London in 2018