#Gender Equality

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• 🇺🇸 Weekly Series ‘Women’s Sports Now’ Makes Big Move to ESPN Slot (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  ESPN announced that it will bring “Women’s Sports Now” to the cabler April 16, making the weekly series available across all ESPN digital platforms throughout the season. “Women’s Sports Now” moves fr...

  Related: #Media, #Sports Business
• 🇺🇸 WIF Los Angeles and WIFT Africa Unite to Bring Delegation of Women Creatives to Cannes Film Festival — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  WIF Los Angeles (WIF LA) and WIFT Africa (Women in Film and TV Africa) have united to bring a delegation of women creatives from 10 African countries to the Cannes Film Festival. In a historic first, ...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Cultural Exchange
• 🇺🇸 How a 16-Year-Old Chess Player Recruited Keanu Reeves to Executive Produce Her Documentary ‘Madwoman’s Game’ (EXCLUSIVE) — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  When Bianca Mitchell-Avila was 16 years old, she first had the idea for the documentary that became “Madwomen’s Game.” The premise was simple: it would highlight and empower the real-life women conque...

  Related: #Youth Empowerment, #Documentary Film
• 🇺🇸 Belle Burden's book 'Strangers' highlights key financial red flags for women — here's how to avoid them — 28/03/2026 [USA]

  Belle Burden's hit book "Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage" recounts how she failed to financially protect herself from the sudden end of her marriage.

  Related: #Financial Literacy, #Marriage Economics
• 🇺🇸 It's Equal Pay Day. Women have lost ground for the second year in a row — 26/03/2026 [USA]

  The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025.

  Related: #Economic Justice, #Women's Rights
• 🇺🇸 For the first time in more than 1,400 years, Church of England gets a woman leader — 25/03/2026 [USA]

  A new archbishop of Canterbury has been installed in a historic ceremony. Sarah Mullally is the 106th person to hold the job, and the first woman.

  Related: #Religious Leadership
• 🇺🇸 Retired NASA astronaut and Air Force Col. Eileen Collins on breaking barriers in space — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Retired NASA astronaut and Air Force Col. Eileen Collins joins "CBS Saturday Morning" to discuss her groundbreaking journey to become the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to comman...

  Related: #Space Exploration
• 🇬🇧 First female Archbishop of Canterbury to be enthroned in 'unimaginable' moment — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the entire 1,400-year history of the job says she feels "immense privilege" ahead of her official enthronement.

  Related: #Religious Leadership
• 🇬🇧 Would WSL meet Fifa's new female coach rules? — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  BBC Sport explores whether the Women's Super League would be ready for Fifa's new female coach requirements.

  Related: #Sports Governance
• 🇺🇸 'Embodied the American dream': Sandra Day O'Connor remembered at Supreme Court — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s clerks and top Justice Department officials gathered at the Supreme Court on Thursday to pay tribute to her as a barrier-breaking, tireless advocate for civics a...

  Related: #Legal Legacy
• 🇺🇸 New FIFA rule says women's teams must have a woman on leadership staff — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  FIFA's council passed a new rule Thursday aimed at bolstering the role of women in leadership, changing its participation requirements for all nations ahead of the 2027 Women's World Cup.

  Related: #Sports Governance
• 🇺🇸 FIFA passes landmark rule to address shortage of women coaches — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  FIFA will require every team participating in its women's tournaments to have a female head coach or assistant after passing groundbreaking regulations at its council meeting on Thursday.

  Related: #Sports Policy
• 🇬🇧 Fifa rules women's teams must have female coaches — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Every team in Fifa's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach as part of new regulations.

  Related: #Sports Policy
• 🇬🇧 Beeps, shouts and abuse - police join female runners to tackle harassment — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  More than half of women runners in the UK have experienced harassment or abuse, research shows.

  Related: #Public Safety
• 🇺🇸 A landmark WNBA labor deal nears reality, paving the way for the first million dollar players — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  A landmark new WNBA collective bargaining agreement was reached in principle early Wednesday morning that will give the league its first million dollar players

  Related: #Sports Labor
• 🇺🇸 Kenyan local government OKs 2 paid days a month for menstrual leave — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  It started with a casual lunch conversation between a county governor and his cabinet ministers about a colleague's menstrual pain. The discussion led to a first in Kenya: The right for female employe...

  Related: #Workplace Rights
• 🇺🇸 New professional baseball league for women debuts this week — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  There's a new professional baseball league for women -- more than seven decades after women had a league of their own. Spring training for the WPBL begins this week and the season begins Aug. 1st...

  Related: #Sports, #Historic Launch
• 🇺🇸 ‘Sinners’ Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw Makes History as First Woman to Win — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  The director of photography, who is of Filipino and African American Creole descent, had a powerful moment onstage as she invited all of the women in the Dolby Theatre to stand up.

  Related: #Cinematography
• 🇺🇸 Autumn Durald Arkapaw makes history as the first woman to win best cinematography. — 16/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Cinematography
• 🇬🇧 The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit</p><p>Feminism is far...

  Related: #Misconceptions
• 🇬🇧 They were told it wasn't for girls, but these could be the future faces of F1 — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  F1 Academy wants to nurture and develop female drivers who can compete at motorsport’s top level

  Related: #Motorsports
• 🇬🇧 'No-one will hire women' - India's top court rejects menstrual leave petition — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The subject has polarised India for long, though some states and private companies offer menstrual leaves.

  Related: #Labor Rights
• 🇬🇧 Threats against female MPs having ‘chilling effect’ on women in public life, minister says — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Security minister Dan Jarvis has announced new security measures ahead of May’s local elections</p><p>Threats against female MPs are having a “chilling effect” on talented women thinking of going i...

  Related: #Political Safety
• 🇺🇸 Flavor Flav on why he's honoring female Olympians and Paralympians — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Flavor Flav is honoring all of the Team USA female Olympians and Paralympians who won a medal at the 2026 Winter Games.

  Related: #Sports Recognition
• 🇺🇸 Flavor Flav celebrates women Olympic, Paralympic medalists — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Pop culture icon Flava Flav stopped by "CBS Mornings" to discuss his plans to celebrate women Olympic and Paralympic medalists from the 2026 Winter Games.

  Related: #Sports Recognition
• 🇺🇸 What happened with Iranian women's soccer team in Australia — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Five members of the Iranian national women's soccer team sought asylum in Australia after refusing to sing Iran's national anthem before a match. Elizabeth Palmer has details.

  Related: #Sports Diplomacy
• 🇬🇧 ‘So much disrespect’: outrage grows over postponement of Women’s Africa Cup of Nations — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Players and coaches demand more accountability from Caf after latest decision further disrupts preparation schedule</p><p>On 13 February, Patrice Motsepe, the president of the Confederation of Afri...

  Related: #Sports Controversy
• 🇬🇧 Why do we need International Women’s Day? Apart from misogyny and Christian nationalism, you mean? | Zoe Williams — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>I should probably be fuming about the way that companies try to cash in on IWD. But there are so many vile opinions to worry about instead</p><p>Sunday was International Women’s Day, which you’ll k...

  Related: #Political Ideology
• 🇺🇸 Here's what to know about International Women's Day &mdash; a celebration and a call to action — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women's Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world.

  Related: #Women's Rights
• 🇺🇸 International Women's Day is a celebration and a call to action. Here are things to know — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Women across the world will call for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs and celebrate progress toward female empowerment during events and demonstrations marki...

  Related: #Global Celebration