The company's rules had prohibited women from the role due to its physically demanding duties.

"Homemakers will get their due recognition through payment for their work at home which hitherto has been unrecognised and unmonetized."

The size of the payout to the plaintiff -- US$22.5 million -- signals a “seismic shift in attitudes towards gender discrimination.”

Women academics often face severe discrimination and belittlement in their fields, keeping them from flourishing as renowned experts.

While inheritance laws on the books protect women's right to own and inherit property, experts say women around the country hardly know about them.

“Instead of coming to the conclusion that their data shows the system is biased, they come to the conclusion that women shouldn’t be mentors."

Women's football faces an “existential threat” amid Covid19, warns Fifpro, a global union of football players, in a new report.

Considered women's work all over the world, the chore of fetching water becomes more and more arduous amid increasing water scarcity.

9,000 years ago, women were hunting big game alongside men, researchers believe.

Women have had limited influence over the framing, and policymaking, around the crisis, one report found.

Despite women making up a majority of frontline workers, their experiences are curiously absent from Covid19 narratives.

Historically, women authors wrote under male pseudonyms so their work would be taken more seriously.

These are the most senior roles ever filled by women in the Vatican's history.

Previous crises have shown that when women lose their jobs, their engagement with unpaid care work increases, which then makes it harder for them to re-enter the workforce.

The goal, according to IOC, is to achieve full gender parity across all aspects of the games by the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Some women were buried with their weapons, upending assumptions about gender roles in prehistoric societies.

The Indian military is gradually inching towards gender equality.

Sponsors like Coca Cola are condemning the U.S. Soccer Federation's comments regarding the women's team's equal pay lawsuit.