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


Pakistani journalists win top prizes for women's empowerment, religious freedom films

"These brave women promoting interfaith harmony are risking their lives for the survival of humanity," rights leader says •

 Zeenat Bibi, producer and director of "She Stood Against Religious Extremism."

‘Don’t give up on your career aspirations because you are a woman’

Advice from Israel’s first female university president, Prof. Rivka Carmi

Rivka Carmi, Winner of the Life's Work award for improving Israeli life in the field of medicine

L’Oréal launches BOLD Female Founders initiative

BOLD Female Founders will focus on investment opportunities worldwide across the wider beauty ecosystem, including brands, beauty tech, biotech and green science.

 BOLD Female Founders will focus on investment opportunities worldwide across the wider beauty ecosystem.

More Gaza women able to report violence using Masahatuna phone app

Unfair norms and traditions of the conservative society are still the biggest obstacles to achieving remarkable progress in protecting women, expert says.

Palestinian women sit at the debris of a house destroyed in an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip November 13, 2019

The Jerusalem Post and WE Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit  

An inaugural event: Learn from some of Israel’s top innovators and up-and-coming female entrepreneurs.

 Women's Entrepreneurship Summit

It’s a Girls’ Galaxy

A fully immersive educational center in Israel’s Eshkol Region is empowering the next generation of female changemakers to reach for the stars – with a little help from NASA and JNF-USA.

 Reporting live from the GrooveTech’s professional-grade news studio

Frances Raday: Paving the way for Israel women's fight for equality

In Israel, where buying an ice cream has political implications, gender issues can make women’s hair rise, whether it’s covered with a wig, scarf, hijab or blowing in the breeze.

 Frances Raday

A women’s magazine appointed a ‘rabbi in residence.’ It chose a man.

Women’s Day magazine has appointed its first-ever rabbi in residence – a controversial choice, as readers were hoping for a woman rabbi.

 Rabbi Steve Leder holds a copy of his book.

Fintech firm Melio launches mentor program for female developers

The program aims to shorten the significant gender gap in the high-tech development space.

Female developers take part in the MentorMe program

Woman's Festival works to shed light on female classical composers

The annual event, which traditionally takes place around International Women’s Day, March 8, is slated for March 7-9 at the Holon Theater.

 BE’ENAYIM SHELEE (In My Eyes) by the Platforma Theater company looks into the troubling issue of violence against women.