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職場の男女差別解消、「不十分」61%　均等法施行40年　朝日世論

A Seat inside the Temple of Democracy

For nearly four decades, the idea of reserving seats for women in India’s legislative bodies has remained a recurring promise—raised in debates, acknowledged across party lines, ye...

UN Reports Detail Unjust Access to Justice for Women and Girls

In many cases, women’s rights are being rolled back, reports say

Parties Yet To Walk The Talk On Women’s Reservation In Politics

First introduced in 1996 and widely supported across party lines, the legislation to ensure 33 per cent reservation for women in politics took 27 long years to be passed by Parliam...

On the Insufficiency of Current Gender Equality Policies in Academia and the Necessity of a Cultural Shift

Despite the proliferation of measures designed to promote gender equality in academia, structural inequalities persist—particularly in senior positions of responsibility, such as p...

Gleichstellung: Eine der größten Bundeskonferenzen

Auf der Bundeskonferenz in Lübeck diskutieren mehr als 500 Frauenbeauftragte über die Zukunft der Gleichstellung. Dort kündigt Ministerin Aminata Touré ein neues Gleichstellungsges...

The law isn’t neutral, and it never has been

We need to talk about diversity on the bench

Women in law.

Rollenaufteilung und Familienrecht: „Die Arbeitsteilung ist noch weitgehend traditionell“

Formale Gleichheit bedeutet noch keine faktische Gleichheit. Darüber spricht Jura-Professorin Kirsten Scheiwe auf dem Feministischen Juristinnentag. mehr...

Rollenaufteilung und Familienrecht: „Die Arbeitsteilung ist noch weitgehend traditionell“

Formale Gleichheit bedeutet noch keine faktische Gleichheit. Darüber spricht Jura-Professorin Kirsten Scheiwe auf dem Feministischen Juristinnentag. mehr...

Who Is Protected And Who Isn’t? Gender And Inequality In India’s New Insurance Law

Insurance products themselves reflect and reproduce inequality. Traditional health insurance in India is designed around episodic hospitalisation, consistently missing women's spec...

The Reality of Biological Sex in Law — one step closer

“One of the deeply contested issues in Western societies at the moment is whether the law recognises the reality of biological sex. This is not only a question for faith groups, bu...

The Marital Rape Exception: What The Law Says And What It Refuses To See

Removing the marital rape exception from Indian law requires a bill, a majority vote, and the desire to pass the bill. The legal complexity is low; the political challenge is the t...

Africa: Gender Quotas Cannot Stand Alone - Political Parties Must Lead

[Liberian Observer] Across Africa, the surge of women excelling in politics and public leadership has been largely propelled by gender quotas, primarily enacted through legislation...

SDG 5 in Kazakhstan: Barriers and Reform Efforts

SDG 5 in Kazakhstan focuses on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls by ending discrimination, violence and harmful practices. While the country has implemen...

What Would a Feminist Justice System Look Like?

Hawaii might have the answer.

A Seat At The Table: The 27-Year Struggle For Women’s Reservation

The Women Reservation Bill (Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023) was introduced as the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act, 2023, which seeks to reserve around thirty-three per cent...

Women expose Zimbabwe’s justice system failures; decry legal gaps, police inaction

WOMEN from across Zimbabwe have raised serious concerns over gaps in the justice system, saying weak laws, lack of resources and discrimination are denying them justice. The concer...

Women’s Reservation Won’t Have To Wait For Long: Law Minister Meghwal

NEW DELHI : Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has said that the women’s quota law providing 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies “won’t have t...

Malaysian Bar calls for removal of gender equality reservations, warns of possible constitutional challenge

KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 — The Malaysian Bar today called for the immediate withdrawal of remaining reservations lin...

'Women will respond': Congress slams govt over 'delay' in 33% quota; says implement it at once

Congress Gurugram District President Vardhan Yadav said the issue of women's reservation is not merely political, but rather related to social justice and equality

The ECtHR’s First Victimisation Judgment… 50 years after the 1975 Equal Pay Directive

In December 2025, in Ortega Ortega v. Spain, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), for the first time, found that unremedied employer retaliation against a sex discrimination...

Discussion-paper-Social norms, religion and Muslim family laws in the Middle East and North Africa region

This paper discusses how feminist engagement with legal-religious discourse has challenged gender norms governing the family in the Middle East and North Africa region. Drawing on...

Women in the Law 2026 – Georgia L. Konstantakis, Konstantakis Law Office, LLC