Women empowerment

Where women are already leading

Ahead of her appearance in the upcoming Miami Conference, World Emunah Director Meira Lerner looks back at a prolific 2025: ”There shouldn’t be a struggle to find women leaders. They’re here.”

Meira Lerner, Director of World Emunah, at the World Emunah Women in the Arts event
HONOREES AT Chochmat Nashim’s Women of Iron Awards together with Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, Chochmat Nashim director (top row, 2nd L); and Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Foreign Ministry special envoy for innovation (bottom row, 1st R)

Israeli women honored at Chochmat Nashim’s Women of Iron Awards

THE WRITER addresses a Maof-Tech gathering at the Technion in Haifa.

The strength of women in the capital market - opinion

An ‘Inspiring Panel of Women’ appears before an audience with the aim of empowering the next generation of Israeli girls.

Empowering the next generation: Israeli girls in STEM are leading the future - opinion


US government announces United Women’s Economic Development Network

Special Envoy for Economic Normalization Aryeh Lightstone and Ambassador-at-Large Kelley Currie will be keynote speakers at the launch of the Network.

The Gulf-Israel Women's Forum brings children draped in the flags of Bahrain, Israel and the UAE to Jerusalem's Old City.

Honoring feminist icon Betty Friedan 15 years after her death

A worldwide webinar marks the 100th anniversary of the feminist icon’s birth

Friedan leads biggest-ever march of over 100,000 people in Washington DC in July 1978 to demand an extension to the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Saudi court jails women's rights activist, posing challenge for Biden

Loujain al-Hathloul, 31, who has been held since 2018 following her arrest along with several other women's rights activists, will appeal the sentence, her sister said.

Demonstrators from Amnesty International stage the protest on International Women's day to urge Saudi authorities to release jailed women's rights activists Loujain al-Hathloul, Eman al-Nafjan and Aziza al-Yousef outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Paris, France, March 8, 2019

Saudi women take to the skies as flight attendants for the first time

A government decision breaks the norms by allowing women to work as cabin crew.

Saudi Arabia sends aid to Lebanon in the aftermath of Beirut blast

Women in Gaza determined to overcome economic, social challenges

Israeli blockade must end to revive Strip’s battered finances, economist says

Alnajjar, Qudaih and Aburok working the land they rented in the Khuza'a area.

Ehud Olmert to 'Post': Women need to take on leadership roles in Israel

A party that wants to change the nature of public discourse and present an attractive, different, hopeful and chance-creating alternative must change its composition.

WOMEN MKS – it’s past time for them to take on leadership roles.

Kuwaiti election produces all-male parliament

Male-dominated culture, insufficient organization, absence of a quota were behind the results, experts say.

 Kuwait's new Emir Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah takes the oath of office at the parliament, in Kuwait City, Kuwait September 30, 2020

Israel ranked 31st in gender equality out of 100 countries

Israel's highest score was for Israeli women's access to education and its lowest was given for female-positive legislation.

A woman walks next to a light rail sign

Women lead better – why?

In leading the fight against COVID-19, it is women who have excelled in seven of 16 countries.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claims victory over challenger Judith Collins at a Labour Party election night event in Auckland on October 17

Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir wants to be the first woman on the moon

While many of us have spent our confinement dreaming of future trips, Meir is working on her own travel plans to a singular destination: She wants to walk on the moon.

Jessica Meir prepares to be submerged in NASA's 6.2 million gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory for spacewalk training.