Zahra Joya started Rukhshana Media so Afghan women could tell their stories in their own words. Now she is battling to keep it going as long as she canDespite years of development, investment and progress in the Afghan media industry, 28-year-old Zahra…
Apple says it pays everyone fairly—employees want receipts
Workers want more transparency, so they’re taking matters into their own hands.
Hey fellas, consider yourself an ally to women? Consider a vasectomy | Jill Filipovic
Women are twice as likely to get their tubes tied than men are to get the snip, even though tubal ligation is more invasive, riskier and harder to reverse. It’s time men step upAmerican men have come a long way, baby. They spend more time with their ki…
Women in sport: pride, prejudice and promise
UK Sport’s Sally Munday counters claims of misogyny in the organisation’s support for female competitors, while Ann Deary Francis and Aaron Nelson say cricket’s new Hundred format has boosted the women’s gameUK Sport has a strong, proven and ongoing co…
“start with questions of maleness and masculinity and go on from there”
In 2015, seven men discussed navigating masculinity in a roundtable discussion for the WisCon Chronicles (WisCon is a feminist scifi/fantasy convention they attend). “For me, my own maleness feels like an axiom, a defining property that I can’t prove o…
Activision Blizzard scandal a ‘watershed moment’ for women in the gaming industry
California’s legal action could mark step towards fixing culture of harassment, experts sayFor women at Activision Blizzard, one of the world’s most famous video game companies, showing up to work meant navigating near daily episodes of humiliation, se…
ゲーム大手ブリザードの社長は、こうして「性差別的な企業文化」が原因で退任に追い込まれた
米国の大手ゲーム会社であるブリザード・エンターテインメント社長のJ・アレン・ブラックが、性差別的な企業文化を巡る議論のさなかに退任した。給与格差から性的に不適切な行為の容認にいたるまで、「男子大学生のノリ」とされ問題になっていた企業文化は、社長が退任しても決着しそうにない。
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‘The best summer of my life’ – Kae Tempest takes Sophocles on a gender odyssey
The writer has turned a Greek tragedy about a marooned soldier into an all-women play for the Covid era. They reveal how its creation mirrored their own journey‘These stories can be intimidating for so many reasons,” Kae Tempest says of the classical G…
Vaccinologist Barbie: Prof Sarah Gilbert honoured with a doll
Co-creator of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab hopes it will inspire young girls to enter Stem careersCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageProf Sarah Gilbert has had quite a year. The co-creator of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab has been m…
How to raise a boy: my mission to bring up a son fit for the 21st century
Increasing awareness of the price of toxic masculinity has led many parents to wonder how best to prepare the young men of the future. One father consults the expertsMy little son has a gang he roots for. All boys, dudes everywhere – they’re his gang. …