Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist and role model for women reporters, dies at 75
Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians who grew up to cover the family business in Washington for ABC News and NPR over several decades, died Tuesday in Washington of complications from breast cancer. She was 75. ABC broke into network programming to announce her death ...
First sexual experience was rape for 1 in 16 U.S. women, study shows
The first sexual experience for 1 in 16 U.S. women was forced or coerced intercourse in their early teens, encounters that for some may have had lasting health repercussions, a newly published study shows. The experiences amount to rape, the authors say, although the national ...
Japan eyes stronger law to protect women from sexual exploitation
The welfare ministry is considering crafting a new law to strengthen the protection of women, including schoolgirls, from sexual exploitation, according to sources. The law would provide the legal basis for prefectural consulting centers for women, a role currently played by a law that deals ...
Nearly 800,000 people commit suicide each year — more than those killed by war and homicide or breast cancer, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging action to avert the tragedies. In a fresh report, the U.N. health agency said that the global suicide rate ...
Female protesters in Hong Kong say online attacks being carried out by suspected pro-Beijing trolls
Rape threats, body-shaming and doctored photos — women supporting the anti-government protests in Hong Kong say they are being harassed online by suspected pro-Beijing trolls. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the financial hub's streets week after week in the biggest challenge to ...
Placing her politics over her music, star Denise Ho defies China
Denise Ho has been pulled from concerts, her records are banned in China and she has been smeared as "poison," but the Cantopop star says standing with the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement outshines all the damage to her career. The short-haired 42-year-old is a rare ...
Women hold 1 in 5 top jobs in science, technology, maths and engineering globally, which slows down innovation, a study of research institutions said on Thursday. While women made up more than 50 percent of higher education students in those subjects — known collectively as ...
South Africa's Ramaphosa vows to intensify war on rape and murder of women as violent crimes spike
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday unveiled a raft of plans to tighten laws to fight rape and murder of women as the nation reels from high profile murders in recent days. "Violence against women has become more than a national crisis," he said ...
AFWJ celebrates 50 years of uniting women
Members of the Association of Foreign Wives of Japanese reflect on the group's achievements and progress.
Billionaire Uniqlo founder Tadashi Yanai wants a woman to succeed him
Tadashi Yanai, Fast Retailing Co.’s 70-year-old billionaire founder, said he would prefer to be succeeded by a woman, adding it would be better for Asia’s largest retailer. "The job is more suitable for a woman," Yanai, the chief executive officer behind clothing giant Uniqlo, said ...
South Korea lawmaker in hot water for berating female antitrust nominee over not having children
A South Korean lawmaker has provoked outrage after berating a female economics professor nominated as the country's antitrust chief for not "fulfilling her duty to the nation" by having a child. Despite its economic advances, South Korean society remains highly patriarchal and is facing a ...
Hundreds of Palestinian women held a demonstration in the West Bank on Monday to demand an investigation into the death of a 21-year-old woman who many suspect was the victim of a so-called honor killing. Israa Ghrayeb, a makeup artist from a village near Bethlehem, ...
