Sexism

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Nov. 26 insisted he had advocated women's rights throughout his political career, accusing the media of "distorting" his controversial comments on equality between men and women.
      

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to launch a female-focused version of the Davos economic forum, as part of a wider push to boost the number of women in the workforce at home, he said in an interview published Tuesday.
      

Global investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has been accused by former female employees of gender discrimination and a ‘boys’ club’ atmosphere where sexualization of women was endorsed Goldman Sachs Group  has been hit by a fresh wave of gender discrimination claims as a group of former employees filed court documents on July 1, claiming the Wall Street firm operates like a “bo

A string of sexual assaults on women during celebrations of Egypt’s presidential inauguration - including a mass attack on a 19-year-old student who was stripped in Cairo’s Tahrir Square - have prompted outrage as a video emerged purportedly showing the teenager, bloodied and naked, surrounded by dozens of men.

Some 243 women’s associations grouped under the umbrella of the Platform for the End to Violence have argued a new law currently debated at Parliament will lead to lesser sentences for criminals, instead of toughening them, as was announced by the government.

The number of workplace gender discrimination charges in Greece went up by 25 percent, according to a Citizens’ Advocate (Ombudsman) report released on Monday.

“The crisis and its consequences clearly reflect on the quality of jobs and occupations available to women,” said the survey, which put the number of reported discrimination cases at 327.