A look at how gender equality is changing the Olympics

Women accounted for 45% of all competitors at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, up from 41% at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter ...
Yahoo

Study ranks women's equality across all 50 states. Here's where New Jersey stands

New Jersey is the eighth-worst state for women's equality in the United States in 2025, according to a recently published study by WalletHub. "Women's rights in the U.S. have made leaps and bounds ...
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Women’s Equality Day: Celebrating the right of women to vote

Monday is Women’s Equality Day, celebrating the anniversary of the 19th amendment to the constitution, passed in 1920, which gave women the right to vote. It forbids states and the federal government ...

Lack of resources behind slow pace of plan to prevent on violence against Indigenous women, official says

Nicole McCarty, the assistant deputy minister charged with overseeing the Women’s Equality branch in government, repeatedly ...
Los Angeles Times

Legal equality for women could take 300 years as backlash rises against women’s rights, U.N. chief says

UNITED NATIONS — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, ...
Virginia Connection Newspapers

Celebration of Women’s Equality Day 2024

Women’s Equality Day, celebrated every year, officially on Aug. 26, marks the granting of women’s right to vote, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution by the 19th Amendment in 1920. The Amendment ...
Korea Joongang Daily on MSN

Women's rights are under attack 30 years after leaders adopted a blueprint for equality, UN says

Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says ...
Time

Do Women Really Want Equality?

The fall season in gender-gap news has started early and with a bang. A study released yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that male doctors earn over 25% more than ...
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Women's Equality Day 2025: Why is it celebrated? Know date, history, significance and more

Women’s Equality Day is observed every year in the United States on August 26. It has been celebrated since 1971 to honour women’s progress toward equal rights with men. The day marks the passing of ...

Maine’s women deserve equality and protection. Maine Republicans seem to disagree. | Opinion

Finally, I heard on the radio that, on the average, women visit doctors four times more than men. This can arguably be for ...
Yahoo

Women’s Equality Day program planned Aug. 26 at Muncie City Hall

MUNCIE, IN —The Coalition of Women’s Organizations will host its 33rd annual Women’s Equality Day program at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, in the Muncie City Hall auditorium. This year’s program will ...
Berlin.de

Women's Award 2026 goes to FC Viktoria Berlin

This year's Berlin Frauenpreis (Women's Award) goes to the founders of the women's team at FC Viktoria Berlin. They are being ...