A Texas theatre is holding a women-only screening of the new Wonder Woman film and dudes are furious. “One woman’s dystopia is another woman’s reality.” Contrary to what Ivanka Trump said, Saudi women…
Salman Abedi, a 23-year-old British man, suicide bombs an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. Prime Minister Theresa May says that the attack, which killed 22 people, “targeted some of the youngest people…
A federal lawsuit against Baylor University says that football players drugged, gang-raped women, and recorded the attacks, as part of a male bonding ritual. Robert Fisher, founder of misogynist “Red Pill” reddit…
Native Women’s Association of Canada gives the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and girls a failing grade. An open letter further criticizes the process and progress to date as “disorganized, haphazard…
Women Help Women, an international advocacy group, has launched a website offering US women help if they perform their own medical abortions. Man on trial for murder argues that his girlfriend accidentally…
We support scientific rigour in other areas; why not when it comes to gender?
Climate change — characterized by an increase in extreme weather and natural disasters — increases trafficking, prostitution, and violence against women throughout Asia. The situation in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan offers one…
Thai woman saw her abusive boyfriend broadcast the murder of their 11-month-old daughter on Facebook Live. Caitlyn Jenner to BBC Woman’s Hour: “I am firmly on the side of womanhood, but I…
Allstate takes advantage of loophole to deny the insurance claim of another battered woman in Ontario, Wendy Soczek, whose husband set her on fire. Turns out women aren’t “in good hands” with…
Is the Fearless Girl statue facing down Wall Street’s Charging Bull a symbol of female empowerment or a corporate cooptation of it?
First study of its kind confirms what women have been saying for decades: the pill can negatively impact your physical and mental health. Police arrest over 100 men for buying prostituted children in…
Europol and Interpol supported Spanish National police in a global action tackling distribution of child pornography via WhatsApp. Thirty-nine individuals in Europe, Central and South America have been arrested so far. Runaway…
Nintendo has created a slightly less sexist video game this time, but Zelda: Breath of the Wild still suffers from a male-centric design team.
France has arrested 937 johns since implementing the Nordic Model one year ago. The law has also reduced the number of prostituted persons arrested each year — from 1,500 to zero. Ninety…
Several Southern Ontario police forces have concluded a six-month investigation into prostitution and human trafficking. Thirty five johns, targeted when they answered online ads, have been charged with obtaining sexual services for consideration.…