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


First Jew of color to lead American Jewish museum resigns, cites racism

Moyo is publicly accusing the board of dysfunction fueled by racism and sexism — and the board is threatening to sue her for allegedly leaking private information.

Gugulethu Moyo, former executive director of the Jewish History Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

Iran pres candidate gives racist/sexist rant: Women resort to African men

Security forces arrested family members of the victims of the regime's 2019 mass murder of protesters against regime corruption.

Ali Motahari.

Myanmar protesters string up women's clothes for protection

Traditionally, walking beneath items used to cover women's private parts is not only bad luck, but emasculating for men in Myanmar.

Traditional clothes hang on a rope as protesters holding shields stand in line in the background during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar March 6, 2021 in this still image obtained by Reuters from a video.

Netanyahu has track record of sexism, says New Hope candidate Yoaz Hendel

"I cannot forget his moral failure back then," Hendel said. "He decided to support power because it was convenient to him. I see it again now with the way he relates to Yifat by mocking her."

YOAZ HENDEL: Anything that doesn’t involve people’s livelihoods is less important now.

Taylor Swift takes on Netflix over 'sexist' joke in 'Ginny & Georgia'

Swift attached a screen shot of a black screen with a subtitled punchline from the show: "What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift."

Taylor Swift.

Tokyo Olympics chief quits, apologizes again over sexist remarks

"My inappropriate comments caused a big trouble. I am sorry," Mori, 83, said at an Olympic organizing committee meeting.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games organising committee news conference

Tokyo Olympics chief retracts sexist comments, refuses to resign

Mori, 83, apologized at a hastily called news conference, but when pressed on whether he really thought women talked too much, he said: "I don't listen to women that much lately so I don't know."

Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori takes off his protective face mask as he attends a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, February 4, 2021

Voices from the Arab press: Which Obama have you read?

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world

A shopper walks past a display of former US president Barack Obama’s newly released autobiography at a Target store in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Does the WSJ op-ed on Dr. Jill Biden show the 'chutzpah' of modern sexism?

The Knesset houses 11 members who hold doctorates, two of whom are women; very few are medical doctors by profession.

Incoming first lady Dr. Jill Biden talks to press as she assembles holiday care packages for deployed troops, at the DC National Guard Armory in Washington, US, December 10, 2020.

Jewish educator’s name removed from award due to racist, sexist views

Flexner wrote that women “show a decreasing inclination to enter” medical school and have “obvious limitations.

Abraham Flexner