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Global Fund for Women is proud to be playing a leadership role in the United Nation’s Generation Equality Forum Action Coalition on Technology and Innovation. The United Nations is organizing Generation Equality in 2021 as a global rallying point to catalyze new and … [Read more...] about Reclaiming Technology and Innovation to Support Feminist Organizing Globally: Global Fund for Women’s Work with the United Nation’s Generation Equality Forum

TOKYO – An online advertisement featuring a woman saying the debate over gender equality is outdated has sparked furore in Japan for being sexist, a month after an outcry over sexist comments by the former Olympics organizing chief saw him step down. In the advertisement, which … [Read more...] about Ad saying gender equality is ‘outdated’ sparks outrage in Japan

UNITED NATIONS — The UN’s premiere global body fighting for gender equality should be tackling the yawning gap between men and women when it comes to political leadership and ensuring women have a strong voice in rebuilding economies after the COVID-19 pandemic — not arguing … [Read more...] about UN Women urges world to press gender equality post-pandemic

NCAA officials upgraded the woman’s weight room overnight after student-athletes cried sexism on social media over their very sparse setup, according to USA Today. Players including Oregon forward Sedona Prince had caused an uproar Friday by posting a video of the woman’s weak … [Read more...] about Woman’s NCAA basketball players get weight room after players call foul

WINSTON-SALEM, NC — The highest-ranking female firefighter in Asheville, North Carolina, says she was repeatedly discriminated against because of her sex and fought to keep her job while battling breast cancer. The first female chief of a municipal fire department in the state … [Read more...] about US female firefighters fight discrimination with lawsuits