Sex crime victim describes experience to judges in seminar held at Supreme Court-related facility
A sex crime victim gave a lecture at a seminar held for criminal judges at a facility related to the Supreme Court in October last year, informed sources said Saturday. The seminar, held at the Legal Training and Research Institute, was designed to help participating ...
Shinjiro Koizumi backs different surnames for Japanese couples
In a major break with Japanese tradition, Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi expresses support for enabling married couples to use different family names.
Even on paternity leave, 32% of Japanese moms say dads don't help much with housework
The government has been pushing for fathers to take paternity leave as Japan faces a demographic crisis, yet a new wrinkle has emerged: Almost one-third of mothers report that their partners do little to help out around the house while they're off work. Of 508 ...
Harvey Weinstein spawned the #MeToo movement. Now, the former film titan is starring in the biggest trial of its era — a landmark moment in a global reckoning that has empowered women while shining a light on power dynamics in workplaces from Hollywood Boulevard ...
Toyooka promotes short-hour jobs for prospective workers with child care concerns
The city of Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, is attempting to solve the dilemma facing mothers with child care time constraints who still want to work. By promoting the introduction of jobs with working hours as short as two hours per day, two days per week, ...
Candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders try to move past feud as early voters sound alarm
U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders attempted over the weekend to tamp down a weeklong disagreement over whether Sanders told Warren in a 2018 private meeting that a woman could not beat Republican President Donald Trump in 2020. As the two senators and long-time ...
U.S. National Archives: 'We made a mistake' altering Trump photos
The National Archives said Saturday it made a mistake when it blurred images of anti-Trump signs used in an exhibit on women's suffrage. The independent agency is charged with preserving government and historical records and said it has always been committed to preserving its holdings ...
The Supreme Court will consider allowing the Trump administration to enforce rules that allow more employers to deny insurance coverage for contraceptives to women. The justices agreed Friday to yet another case stemming from President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, this time about cost-free birth ...
Virginia moves to make Equal Rights Amendment real, 48 years later
Virginia on Wednesday moved to the brink of becoming the crucial 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in what was seen as a momentous victory for the women's rights movement, even though it is far from certain the measure will ever be ...
Pope Francis on Wednesday named the first woman to hold a high-ranking post in the Secretariat of State, the male-dominated Vatican's diplomatic and administrative nerve center. Italian lay woman Francesca Di Giovanni, 66, will assume a newly created post in a division known as the ...
Can a woman win in 2020? U.S. Democratic debate clashes expose deeper issues
The smoldering political flare-up between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders has rekindled debate over a question that has been gnawing at Democratic primary voters for more than three years: Can a woman beat President Donald Trump? Many voters openly support the idea of the first ...
Japanese 'lactivist' seeks to help young moms overcome breastfeeding hurdles
Midori Ogino champions breastfeeding as a biological gift that helps newborns survive and thrive. Making it a cultural norm and erasing societal taboos over breastfeeding in public is an investment that pays back many times over. Ogino is a so-called lactivist not because she pushes ...
