Glass Wings Blog: Women

60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community: ‘We have had enough’
‘A few beatings won’t kill you’: judge rejects divorce request of woman abused by husband in Afghanistan
A moment that changed me: I shaved off my hair – and immediately became an invisible woman
A philosopher’s take on NZ’s bill to define who counts as a woman or man
A Recipe For Women’s Empowerment in Morocco
A wage for housework? India's sweeping experiment in paying women
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
As a refugee, I have lived in limbo for 13 years. Why are only some Iranian women worthy of Australia’s protection?
As female independent MPs descend on parliament, they’re fulfilling the dreams of women across history
Australia’s masculine policing culture is failing women and children
Being a woman in China is getting harder. But in Chengdu, female-only spaces are flourishing
Board meeting: the award-winning photograph of India’s female skateboarders
The Bus That Brings Reproductive Care to Homeless Women
Children, Pregnant Women Mistreated in Immigration Detention, Sen. Ossoff Says
The community health workers protecting pregnant women from dangerous heat in Delhi
The daring women artists of last century were often sidelined as muses. A new book celebrates their brilliance
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
Digitised manuscripts: Mediaeval and Renaissance Women
Elon Musk Can't Stop Attacking This Woman
From the manosphere to tradwives - why are young women embracing traditional gender roles?
‘Generations of women have been disfigured’: Jamie Lee Curtis lets rip on plastic surgery, power, and Hollywood’s age problem
Global demand for shea butter is growing: but it’s not all good news for the women who collect the nuts
Global group accused of attacking gay rights backs South Australian woman over school presentation
Healthcare on the move : How Mobile clinics are bringing reproductive rights to Madagascar’s ‘forgotten’ Women
The Hidden History of Women Game Designers
How a Colorado woman is making a statement against fast fashion by wearing the same dress for 100 days
How Afghan women under Taliban rule are coding their way to a brighter future
How can the International Criminal Court achieve justice for women?
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize
‘I had no idea people in Australia call police if anyone is beaten’: why many abused migrant women don’t involve police
‘I was told I had two weeks to live’ – why are so many young, fit, non-smoking women getting lung cancer?
ICE Almost Deports Native American Woman
‘I’d rather be bored than in danger’: Muslim women change how they behave in public because of racist attacks in Australia
‘I’m dreading birthing in such a system’: what Indigenous women globally think of birth care and what they’d like to see instead
In a world first, The Hague wants to arrest Taliban leaders over their treatment of women – what happens next?
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
In the Middle East, women journalists and activists have been driving crucial change
In the Shadow of Oil Rigs, Black Women Are Reclaiming Their Neighborhoods
Involving women in peace deals reduces chance of a conflict restarting by up to 37%
‘Iranians are fed up of dictatorship’: the exiled female activists daring to dream of a new era
‘I’ve found my community’: the woman bringing AI and climate science together
LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name
Long before the Anzacs, April 25 was the day women in Australia got the right to vote
Long COVID Rates Higher in Women: Evidence Grows
Many migrant women facing having to 'start from scratch' in Australia but an employment program is trying to help
McKinsey's "Women In The Workplace" Report Obscures What Companies Are Actually Doing To Women
Meet the women protecting India's snow leopards
Men embodying women in VR report strong emotional reactions to verbal harassment
Monuments of change: London’s statues honouring remarkable women
More women are professors, but gender gaps continue to plague NZ universities
Nepal appoints its first female PM after historic week of deadly protests
New Research Absolves the Woman Blamed for a Dynasty’s Ruin
New research shows men still outnumber women as experts in science news
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal
Not just a ‘woman’s hobby’ – why more men are picking up sewing, and why you should too
‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
Paramedics are less likely to identify a stroke in women than men. Closing this gap could save lives – and money
Pink City Rickshaw Puts Women in the Driver’s Seat
Plane and car crash testing is still designed to keep men safe. That puts women in danger
REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council concerning the EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Report on Indigenous women’s wildcat conservation program sparks international support & funding
Republicans Hold Smithsonian American Women's History Museum Hostage Over Anti-Trans Demands
The researchers reshaping the future of women-led business in Yorkshire
The return of sex testing in sport risks harming women athletes rather than protecting them
Right-Wing Women Discover Misogyny Not As Fun As They Thought Part 378,272,347,230,326
The Rise of Japan’s Female Trump: Why Takaichi Sanae Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Japanese Democracy Since Abe 2.0
Roots of Resilience: The Women Preserving Asia’s Ancient Mangrove Forest
Russia Revives Soviet-Era Controls to Police Women’s Bodies and Futures
Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf
Sending women to the ‘Khia Asylum’ is music’s latest cruel trend. But it reflects an old historical bias
Seventy pioneer women translators
Sex, pink and empowerment are used to sell alcohol to women. They don’t always like it
She Listened to Women’s Pain. Then She Transformed How It Was Treated.
Syria’s new leader promised democracy. Then he excluded women from parliamentary elections
‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech
These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight
Tjanpi Desert Weavers at 30: how 400 Indigenous women in remote Australia took the art world by storm
Travel as activism: 6 stories of Black women who refused to ‘stay put’ in apartheid South Africa
Trump Admin to Torch $10 Million in Birth Control Meant for Women in Crisis Zones
What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously?
When wars destroy heritage, women lose more than monuments – new research
Why is it misogynistic to call a woman a ‘witch’?
With just weeks left on her Australian student visa, one Iranian woman fears she will be executed if she has to return
Woman who overturned Queensland’s puberty blocker ban ‘not backing away from the fight’ after LNP reinstates it
The woman who turns doomed bee swarms into thriving hives
Woman who won legal case over greenhouse emissions awarded top environmental prize
Woman With 3 Autoimmune Diseases Enters Remission After Immune 'Reset'
Women experience extreme heat differently to men. And they’re adapting to it in creative ways
Women go from homeless to 'tiny home' owners with a once-in-a-lifetime deal
Women have been mapping the world for centuries – and now they’re speaking up for the people left out of those maps
Women have fought hard to be recognised as farmers. There’s still more work to be done
Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem
‘Women’s freedoms are at stake’: concern at rise of Islamist party before Bangladesh election
Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’
Women’s rights in the US are in real danger of going back to 1965 – so Jessie Murph’s new song is no laughing matter
World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
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