A federal judge dismissed a military nonprofit’s claims against the Department of Defense over its “Leaders First” policy requiring two or more women in Army or Marine Corps units before junior women servicemembers can be assigned to it, finding the nonprofit must prove the policy affects one of its members.
Read moreEmotions ran high in the U.S. Capitol Friday over the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. Soon after Republican Sen. Jeff Flake announced he’d vote to confirm Kavanaugh, two women cornered him in an elevator as he headed back to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Read moreSaudi Arabia expelled the Canadian ambassador on Monday and froze “all new business” with Ottawa over its criticism of the ultraconservative kingdom’s arrest of women’s rights — yet another warning to the West reflecting Riyadh’s new assertive foreign policy.
Read moreThe Navy says it will now allow servicewomen to sport ponytails and other hairstyles, reversing a policy that long forbade females from letting their hair down.
Read moreSoldiers raped Stephanie because her husband, a pastor called Alain, preached to men in their Congo town about the need for education. Her ordeal ended when she was granted asylum by the United States. But for another group of women wanting to emigrate here, victims of domestic violence, that route of escape was closed by the Trump administration this week.
Read moreBy AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Monday issued the first driving licenses to
Read moreFour women on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of an Idaho law that invalidates an adult woman’s living will if she is pregnant.
Read moreA federal judge said Thursday he may hold a bench trial to resolve a proposed class action accusing UnitedHealth Group of violating the Affordable Care Act by failing to cover breastfeeding services for new mothers.
Read moreThe Center for Reproductive Rights sued Mississippi officials Monday to block a new set of laws the group says are designed to cut off a woman’s constitutionally protected right to abortion care.
Read moreWomen across Europe and Asia shouted their demands for respect and empowerment Thursday to mark International Women’s Day, with protesters in Spain launching a 24-hour strike and crowds of demonstrators filling the streets of Manila, Seoul and New Delhi.
Read moreA Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants by cardinals and bishops, for whom they cook and clean for next to no pay.
Read moreBritish supermarket chain Tesco is facing legal claims that it is paying women less than men for work of equal value, in a case that lawyers estimate could ultimately cost it as much as $5.6 billion in compensation payments.
Read moreBritain will consider pardons for suffragettes convicted during the struggle for women’s right to vote, the interior minister said Tuesday, a century to the day since some female voters were allowed to go to the polls.
Read moreA federal judge Monday temporarily enjoined part of a Texas law that would require healthcare providers to bury or cremate fetal remains.
Read moreAn open letter signed by movie star Catherine Deneuve and about 100 French intellectuals said the American campaign against sex harassment verges on Puritanism, prompting predictable outrage.
Read moreAfter prevailing at the Supreme Court against the federal health care law’s contraception mandate, the Little Sisters of the Poor announced plans Tuesday to fight a new leg of the battle.
Read moreFighting to keep employers from withholding vital data, two groups say in a federal complaint that recent interference by the Trump administration hurts their ability to close race and gender pay gaps.
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Is a 13-year-old old enough to agree to sex with an adult? That’s a question France is asking as the government prepares to set a legal age for sexual consent for the first time.
Read moreNorth Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp beseeched the Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday to address the “invisibility” of women on tribal lands who face the nation’s highest rate of victimization by violent crimes.
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The American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday in a sharply worded letter that the governing body for college club wrestling programs is discriminating against a female national wrestling champion by barring her from competing against male student-athletes, effectively benching her for the entire season.
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