sexism

Research assistant Georgina Bowyer works on a vaccine for Ebola at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England, on January 16, 2015.

Science isn’t just ‘boys with toys,’ and these ‘girls’ can prove it

Science

If you think women aren’t playing important roles in math, science and engineering, just hop on Twitter and see more than 17,000 of them proving you wrong. But female scientists say there’s still much more to be done to encourage women to get into those fields.

The World

The life of the ideal woman, as seen through the eyes of India’s ‘Mad Men’

Lifestyle
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shake hands at the Ziguangge Pavilion in the Zhongnanhai leaders' compound in Beijing on September 5, 2012.

Hillary Clinton may be the most hated woman in China

Global Politics
Lawrence Summers, former US treasury secretary and Harvard president, ignited a firestorm on gender issues a decade ago this month.

Larry Summers ‘may have done a service to women’ with his sexist remarks

Culture
Alanah Pearce is a game reviewer on a web TV show called Button Bash

This journalist replies to young boys who send her rape threats on Facebook by telling their mothers

Culture