- An unpublished report commissioned by the Scottish Prison Service describes female prison staff as “transphobic” for voicing their discomfort over being forced to strip-search trans-identified male inmates.
- A group of 36 Indigenous Maya Achi women who say Guatemalan ex-paramilitaries subjected them to mass sexual violence between 1981 and 1985 face their alleged abusers in court after 40 years of seeking justice.
- Women’s safety campaigners blast the U.K. Home Office’s endorsement of a location tracking app to make streets safer for women and girls as “insulting,” arguing it does nothing to eliminate male violence against women.
- Several women are given top business roles at multiple news outlets this past week, adding to the number of women taking top editorial positions this past year.
- Poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou becomes the first Black woman to be celebrated on the U.S. quarter.