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Saudi women finally take to the wheel but with consent of male guardians
Saudi women steered their way through busy city streets on Sunday, driving to work, running errands and relishing a new era in which they are allowed to drive and no longer need to rely on men to move around. A longstanding ban on women driving ...
Saudi Arabian women celebrated being able to drive for the first time in decades Sunday, as the kingdom overturned the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility. The move is part of Crown ...
Lone U.K. lawmaker blocks bill to criminalize 'upskirting' photos
A law that would make it a criminal offense in the U.K. to take "upskirting" photos was blocked Friday in Parliament despite receiving backing from the government. The initiative was stopped by a single Conservative Party legislator who objected when the bill was put forward ...
San Francisco Supervisor London Breed emerged victorious a week after election day and will be the city's first black female mayor, narrowly defeating a rival who was seeking to become the first openly gay man in the position. Former state Sen. Mark Leno called Breed ...
Sexual consent in Japanese: Making it crystal clear that no means no
In a language where "no" can mean "yes" and vice versa, debate about sexual consent has had difficulty thriving.
Brothel bans weighed in Nevada as legal pimp runs for office
A state marketed as a place where people can indulge in all manner of sins is confronting its status as the only place in America where you can legally pay someone for sex. A coalition of religious groups and anti-sex trafficking activists has launched referendums ...
New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern to stay put as birth nears
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday she plans to remain within driving distance of Auckland for the rest of this week as she prepares to give birth. Ardern made the comments in Wellington before leaving for her home city. Her baby is due ...
Japan professor elected to U.N. panel on discrimination against women
Hiroko Akizuki, a professor of international law at Asia University, was overwhelmingly endorsed Thursday to become one of 23 experts on the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women from next January. "I would like to work to help prevent sexual violence in conflict ...
Spain's new Cabinet has highest ratio of female ministers in European history
Spain swore in a new government cabinet with the highest proportion of female ministers in Spanish and European history on Thursday, putting the cap on one of the fastest power transitions in the nation's four decades of democratic rule. The new Socialist government of Prime ...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has defended his kiss on the lips of a married Filipino woman in South Korea, and said he will resign if enough women are offended and sign a petition calling for him to step down. Duterte has described Sunday's kiss as ...
First Saudi women get driver's licenses as activists remain locked up amid crackdown
Saudi Arabia issued its first driver's licenses to 10 women on Monday as the kingdom prepared to lift the world's only ban on women driving in three weeks, but some who campaigned for the right to drive remain under arrest. A government statement said the ...
Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte stirs controversy by kissing woman on lips
A kiss by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on a Filipino woman's lips while on an official visit in South Korea sparked anger and jokes Monday, as feminists denounced what they called his "perverted way" of taunting his female critics. Many Filipinos, however, thought it was ...
