Physician Kristina Hänel, 62, was sued for "promoting" abortions on her website. Today, she has become a historic figure for the legalization of abortion in Germany.
Maria Filomena Monica, 75, is the first Portuguese woman to receive a PhD in sociology. After leaving her husband during Portugal’s dictatorship and writing over 30 books, she has become one of the country’s most respected intellectuals.
Ailbhe Smyth, 72, is an Irish writer, academic and activist. For decades, she has been at the center of political campaigns to legalize divorce, same-sex marriage and the historic 2018 vote to repeal the constitutional ban on abortion.
Milutin Jeličić, mayor of the Serbian town of Brus, was accused of years of sexual harassment and sexual assault. When Marija Lukić, his former secretary, went on TV to tell her story, the cable provider's electricity was cut off.
After a childhood of learning not to talk about periods, multitudes of girls and women across Europe are ashamed of their monthly bleeds. This only makes menstruation seem more traumatic -- like a dirty secret.
A young Italian woman claims she was raped at the age of 13, but one Italian newspaper has downplayed her experience into a failed “love story”.
In July 2018, for the first time in Tunisia's history, a woman became the mayor of Tunis.
Tamara Pletnyova, the chairwoman of Russian State Duma’s Committee on Family, Women and Children, gave a long interview to Channel One, the nation's biggest broadcaster, voicing a number of controversial and harmful ideas.
Serbia's lesbian prime minister, whose partner recently gave birth to their baby, was quickly labelled a “dad” by the Balkan media.
The German city of Hannover has decided to switch to gender-neutral language in all its official communications, angering many.
Brexit has become a culture war in the UK between traditionalists and “metropolitan elite”, and now attitudes towards family are on the frontline.
“Women make up 51% of the population, but represent less than a quarter of foreign policy positions” -- Micah Zenko wrote in his famous Foreign Policy essay “City of Men” -- that was eight years ago, and, sadly, not much has changed since then.
Empathy makes it possible to challenge stereotypes, stigmas, discrimination, and prejudice. It teaches us to look at people with respect for diversity instead of fear -- Aspen Baker.
In a landmark legal case, a woman who killed her husband after years of violence had her murder conviction quashed. So why is the BBC calling her “hammer killer wife”?
The media in Italy has two very different rape narratives depending on who the attacker is. If he's Italian, it's likely the victim's fault. If he's an immigrant, his guilt is never in doubt.
Take a homophobic petition, mix it with a 100-year-old prophecy involving Russia, sprinkle it with conservative family alliance funds from Poland and other like-minded allies and what do you get? Lithuania's Institute of Christian Culture.
When refugees are discussed in the German media, the conversation is about men -- but what about women refugees, are they being given the help they need to overcome their own challenges and integrate?
A girl's sadness is an internal protest, an attempt to disrupt the predominant perception of femininity, says visual artist Audrey Wollen
Dangerous misinformation about the HPV vaccine continues to circulate worldwide, discouraging women from getting a safe and efficient protection against a deadly disease.
A new report by the Women's Media Center on gender diversity tells a discouraging story -- across all media types -- online, print and broadcast -- men get roughly 60 percent of the bylines and women only 40 percent.
