After lengthy disputes, the leaders of the grand coalition in Germany on Thursday agreed on a regulation for more pay equity between women and men.
The 2016 presidential race is seen by many as the most divisive and scandalous in the U.S. history. A team of Xinhua reporters recently toured several battleground states to get the firsthand accounts of what American voters really think before the Nov. 8 elections. Here is the last of a series of four in-depth reports they have produced.
"Women hold up half the sky," according to a slogan first popularized by the former Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership.
A film festival in China is calling for more female representation in cinema and plans to lobby the country's film industry to improve the situation.
"My sole intention for playing football is to promote equality and display my talent as a female in this male-dominated society," Zulina Samimi, 20, told Xinhua at a sport stadium here.
Pregnant women in the workplace in Britain face increasing discrimination, with many forced out of their jobs, a hard hitting report revealed Wednesday.
People's Park in Shanghai is the setting for an extraordinary marriage bureau, as elderly parents attempt to find partners for their unattached 30-something children.
The Indian government has moved to ban commercial surrogacy, sparking fears that the multibillion-dollar industry could go underground.
Coach Lang Ping and writer Hao Jingfang are among those showing independence, authenticity and outspokenness, and helping to counter negative perceptions of the country, especially in the West
Huge Chinese TV audience watch as women’s team defeats Serbia after barely scraping into finals. Chinese women's volleyball team won the gold medal in Rio Olympic Games on Sunday. The outstanding performance has inspired many who watched the game to never give up and keep fighting.
When Chinese women's volleyball team took on Serbia for the Olympic title, 70 percent of Chinese families watched live broadcast on TV, easily beating the audience rating for Lunar New Year Gala.
It seems that Chinese women have too many " national husbands"nowadays. Once there is anextremely popular actor or athlete, often single, he will be elevated to the altar as a "nationalhusband".
The Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation led a rally on Monday urging the Japanese government to apologize for the Taiwanese women who were forced into sex slavery during World War II.
Indonesia held an art creations exhibition to showcase the sufferings of Ianfu or "comfort women" during Japan colonization in Indonesia from 1941 to 1945.
Latin American countries have organized public breastfeeding events this week to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week from Aug. 1 to 7.
Graphic mobile phone clips of gang rapes are being sold in shops in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, as a spate of rapes in one of the country’s most violent states has sparked anger and calls for the chief minister to step down.
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