- Women are boycotting U.S. beauty retailer Ulta after the company featured two trans-identified males discussing motherhood and girlhood on their podcast, “The Beauty Of…”
- A 22-year-old Black woman in Missouri escapes captivity after being abducted, tortured, and held against her will by a man who she says killed several other Black women. The unnamed woman escaped less than one month after Kansas City police dismissed public concerns about a potential serial killer targeting local Black women and girls.
- The Taliban introduces limits on what women can study at Afghanistan’s national university, refusing to allow female students to pursue journalism, economics, engineering, veterinary medicine, engineering, or agriculture.
- Women prison guards in Portugal speak out against being made to body-search a trans-identified male inmate, as new rules require that prisons recognize inmates’ gender identity based on self-declaration.
- Iran’s government is imprisoning more women’s rights activists and journalists as nationwide protests against the death of Mahsa Amini and Iran’s mandatory hijab law continue into their fourth week.