gender equality

Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir said she will join women walking off the job to protest the widely disputed gender wage gap.

A majority of Gen Z and Millennials globally believe that women’s rights “have gone far enough” and that “men are being discriminated against.”

Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake, launched her “Ask Me Anything” tour Monday and held her first event in Phoenix.

The UK’s leading Catholic bishop on the environment lamented this weekend that the COP26 Climate Change Conference failed to redirect sufficient funds from wealthy nations to poor ones in reparation for global warming.

Barack Obama has announced that he is joining the National Basketball Association to promote “social responsibility” in Africa.

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced this week her intention of introducing a bill requiring both male and female car crash test dummies.

A 16-year-old named Maayan Segal in Tel Aviv, Israel, has created a second version of her gender-equal playing cards called Queeng to be more diverse.

Once formal, legal equality is universal, “equity” not only goes beyond mere “equality,” but arguably undermines it. 

A recent poll conducted by Survey Monkey, with oversight and analysis provided by Public Opinion Strategies, found that 77 percent of Americans believe Hasbro making “Mr. Potato Head” gender neutral is wokeness “going too far.”

The Hasbro toy company is changing the name of Mr. Potato Head to “Potato Head” in an effort to be more gender-neutral.

Claiming that traditional playing cards are examples of “gender inequality,” a woman has introduced a redesigned deck that eliminates kings.

A research paper concluding that working with female mentors might hurt young women’s careers in the sciences has been retracted after fierce criticism from “group email threads” and on social media. The academic journal that published the paper apologized for “any unintended harm derived from the publication of this paper.”

Matsui Ichiro, the mayor of Osaka, is taking heat on social media for suggesting that men should handle shopping chores during the coronavirus pandemic because women tend to hang around the stores for too long.

A Chinese charity program called the Spring Bud Project, nominally dedicated to providing educational opportunities for poverty-stricken girls, apologized on Wednesday after boys were found participating in one of its fundraising activities.

Finland’s new leftist coalition government has appointed a women-majority cabinet, with women outnumbering men nearly two-to-one.

Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris took the stage at CNN’s Equality Town Hall Thursday night, where she said her pronouns are “she, her, and hers,” and CNN host Chris Cuomo agreed, saying, “Mine, too.”

A black transgender activist interrupted a question and took the microphone during Thursday night’s CNN Equality Town Hall, where the individual claimed CNN had “erased black trans women.”

Openly gay Tunisian lawyer and prominent LGBT rights advocate Mounir Baatour wants to become the next president of Muslim-majority Tunisia, where homosexuality is currently punishable by up to three years in prison, several news outlets reported over the weekend.

The travel industry is the latest sector to join the trend of politicizing absolutely everything, with Fodor’s now pushing travel to countries with “strong progressive values.”

The top executives of more than 180 companies have signed a letter that says abortion is essential in order for people to be successful in their businesses.

Kathryn Kaufman, an adviser to President Donald Trump on women and national security, is undermining his administration’s pro-life mission.

Denmark has ranked last in a survey of Western countries on how feminism is perceived, with only one in six Danes saying they are a feminist.

The former president of Planned Parenthood and a Black Lives Matter co-founder are joining with the director of a domestic workers’ advocacy group to launch a new political action group in advance of the 2020 election.

Swedish authorities will “steer” male teenagers who apply for summer jobs towards “traditionally female professions” and vice versa this year in order to “break” traditional gender roles, local media reports.

The newly formed centre-left Swedish government, led by the Social Democrats, has announced it will no longer be scrapping the country’s “Gender Equality Authority” despite an announcement made last month.

Lee, a Republican, is blocking confirmation of Chai Feldblum, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the EEOC. Feldblum – a left-wing Democrat – is known as the architect of former President Barack Obama’s LGBT agenda.

Adverts showing a housewife looking after the family will be banned from next year in an industry-wide crackdown on “harmful stereotypes” which researchers allege contribute to “real-world gender inequalities”.

Female prison guards at men’s jails are now just as likely to be attacked as their male colleagues thanks to advances made by feminism in the past 10 years, MPs have heard. UK prisons chief Michael Spurr, who has worked

Ireland’s Minister for Higher Education announced Sunday the introduction of sex-specific teaching jobs to attack what she sees as persistent gender inequality on the island.

Kleenex will re-brand its “Mansize” tissues after consumers complained the name was sexist — touching off a social media conversation about what’s in a name.

A student petition that criticizes a Texas high school’s dress code as “outdated” and “gender biased” wants administrators to change the rules and allow boys to wear makeup on campus so they may express themselves in “what is supposed to be a safe environment.”

BARDO, Tunisia — Thousands of Muslim fundamentalists protested Saturday in front of the nation’s parliament to decry proposals in a government report on gender equality that they claim are contrary to Islam.

On the doorstep of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 25-year anniversary as a Supreme Court justice, Felicity Jones will portray her early work in the fight for gender equality.

Ireland’s feminist culture minister is pushing a policy to ensure that half of all plays staged in Ireland are written by women within five years as part of a broader “gender equality” campaign.

The head of Qatar Airways has issued “heartfelt apologies” for saying that a woman could not do his job because it was too challenging.

In recent weeks, the Boy Scouts of America announced the organization would admit girls to take part in its programs. And now, Charisma News reports that condoms will be made available for its 2019 World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia and alcohol permitted in some areas.