Aug 22 Watch Piper Kerman of ‘Orange Is the New Black’ answers your questions By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 21 Women significantly outnumber teenage boys in gamer demographics By Charles Pulliam-Moore Adult female gamers have unseated boys under the age of 18 as the largest video game-playing demographic in the U.S., according to a recently published study from the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group focused the U.S. gaming industry. Continue reading
Aug 19 Watch Indonesian province turns up Sharia law after devastating tsunami By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 17 Twitter Chat: Women in Politics By Nora Daly Thirty years ago this week, Geraldine Ferraro was chosen by Walter Mondale as his running mate on the 1984 Democratic ticket, making history as the first woman to become a major party's national nominee for office. Continue reading
Jul 14 Church of England gives green light to women bishops By Talia Mindich The Church of England approved legislation on Monday to allow women priests to be ordained as bishops. Continue reading
Jul 08 With knives and hammers, Pakistani sculptor chisels away at taboos for women By Laila Kazmi, KCTS Humaira Abid is a sculptor and painter. Based in the Seattle area, she spends several months out of each year in Lahore, Pakistan, where she grew up and still maintains her main studio. Her work is a reflection of her… Continue reading
Jul 03 Watch Consumerism stirs age-old beauty biases in rural Bangladesh By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 19 Watch How will the primaries shake up the gender split in Congress? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 18 Watch ‘Wikipedian’ editor took on website’s gender gap By Tracy Wholf Wikipedia has come under scrutiny over a lack of female representation and participation on the website. To combat this trend, Adrianne Wadewitz was a dedicated "Wikipedian," who wrote and edited content on Wikipedia as one of the nearly 75,000 active… Continue watching
May 02 Breakthrough law strives to bring gender equality to Senegal’s government By Contessa Gayles, Alison Withers The women of Senegal are entering an unprecedented age of political empowerment. A breakthrough law doubled the number of women in the country’s parliament, far surpassing the United States’ female representation in Congress. Women all over the country are mobilizing… Continue reading