May 2026

A UK Anti-Ageism Study by the Age Without Limits campaign found that top-grossing films were more likely to feature a lead actor named Chris or a talking animal than a …

Internalised misogyny is not women hating women for no reason. It is what happens when women absorb sexist beliefs from society and begin applying them to themselves and other women. …

Wikipedia’s Gender Gap has long shaped who gets seen and remembered online. While women still make up less than 20% of English Wikipedia biographies, projects such as Women in Red …

UNESCO’s Higher Education Global Trends Report shows that women now outnumber men in higher education worldwide, with 114 women enrolled for every 100 men in 2024. But women remain underrepresented …

The Web Accessibility 2026 findings from WebAIM show that 95.9% of the world’s top one million website home pages still have detectable WCAG failures. The report found more than 56 …

Major Abhilasha Barak, the Indian Army’s first woman combat helicopter pilot, has been honoured with the 2025 UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award for her gender-sensitive peacekeeping work …

The Ebola Outbreak is once again showing how caregiving roles put women at higher risk during health crises. UN Women has warned that women and girls in the Democratic Republic …

A viral photo from the US-China bilateral meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping showed not one woman at the table. Gita Gopinath called it “a painting of the end …

PCOS is now being renamed PMOS after a global consensus published in The Lancet. The change recognises that the condition is not only about ovarian cysts or fertility, but a …

A Kantar study with DIVA Charitable Trust and The Curve Foundation found that 58% LGBTQIA+ women in India delay healthcare because they fear discrimination or poor treatment. The findings reveal …