Gender stereotypes are firmly rooted in today's youth by age 10, according to a global study Wednesday that warns such beliefs can raise the risk of depression, suicide, violence and HIV. The investigation, which spanned 15 countries, suggested that vast amounts of money are wasted ...
The valid points in the fired Google worker's gender diversity manifesto shouldn't be drowned out by a chorus of condemnation.
Tomomi Inada's resignation as defense minister ended a tenure that often made reporters wonder if her transgressions had more to do with ignorance than with incompetence. It would be wrong to associate her failures with her sex, though there were some in the media ...
A 38-year-old transgender woman in Hokkaido who has been convicted of theft has asked the Justice Ministry and local prosecutors to be treated as a female inmate, despite being listed as male in her family registry. She has been living as a woman and wants ...
Ray Tanaka's high-pitched giggle is infectious. Yet the 51-year-old bears visible signs of less humorous times. Scars peaking through tightly cropped hair are telltale signs of severe beatings at the hands of a former partner who had transitioned to male. While Tanaka's raggedy goatee is ...
The imagery was stark, if inevitable: 12 Palme d'Or winners, one of them female. When the Cannes Film Festival celebrated its 70th anniversary on Tuesday, it assembled luminaries from across cinema as well as many of the recent winners of its top prize. Jane Campion ...
Chiaki Kodama blows her deer whistle and soon a male deer wanders into sight. She slowly takes aim and squeezes the trigger. Moments later, Kodama and a friend on her first hunt are tracking the wounded animal through a forest in Fukui Prefecture. "Look for the ...
While hikikomori (social withdrawal) is usually seen as mostly affecting men, the current way of thinking fails to take into account the many women who are effectively — and involuntarily — cut off from society, campaigners and experts say. Kyoko Hayashi, who is leading efforts ...
Decades after her birth, Renho is still being punished for having a Japanese parent who was female, not male.
Pope Francis has set up a commission to study the role of women deacons in early Christianity, the Vatican said on Tuesday, raising hopes among equality campaigners that women could one day have a far greater say in the Roman Catholic Church. The Church bans ...
When openly gay independent candidate Wataru Ishizaka campaigned in a 2007 Tokyo local election, people snickered at his speeches. But now even Japan's conservative ruling party mentions gay rights in its platform for this year's Upper House election. Though the paragraph is deep in the ...
Hosei University students about the issues that could determine how they vote in July's House of Councilors election, the first in which Japanese 18- and 19-year-olds will be able to cast ballots.
