A woman's education level and the number of children affect breastfeeding, according to research results from Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) released on Tuesday.
The relevance of March 8 is now lost on many, feminists say A topic to gain mild traction on Chinese social media earlier in the month was "Happy 3.8".
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday met with Gil Won-ok, one of the victims who were drafted by Japan as so-called "comfort women" during the Second World War, Ban's spokesman told reporters here.
Asked in Parliament on Thursday whether the central government had any plans to criminalise marital rape, Union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi said in a written reply.
Taipei, March 8 (CNA) The plaque of the first museum dedicated to Taiwanese "comfort women," who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, was unveiled Tuesday, International Women's Day.
The World Health Organization advised pregnant women on Tuesday to avoid travel to areas where the Zika virus is spreading.
"Fatma", a mother of twins with a demanding workload, was distraught to discover she was pregnant again. Her doctor agreed to perform an abortion, she says, only after she promised to pretend the procedure had been a medical emergency.
"Although women's status has been improved to some extent, there is still a long way ahead to ensure their rights and eliminate violence against women in conservative Afghan society," a women's right activist Mursal, 24, told Xinhua on Tuesday.
As the world marks the International Women's Day on Tuesday, the United Nations has sent a clear message that the global community need to step up efforts to support conflict-affected women and girls as many of them have been facing severe challenges and rooted inequalities.
An agreement between South Korea and Japan on "comfort women" is "null and void," Yongsoo Lee, a South Korean survivor of Japanese military sexual slavery, said here on Tuesday.
Singapore's top companies have led from the front in helping to remedy one of the blights on the local corporate scene - the under-representation of women on company boards.
This is the portrait of an “epidemic of invisibility” in Hollywood described by researchers in a study released on Monday of more than 400 movies and scripted television series from 2014 and 2015.
South Korea on Wednesday urged Japan to refrain from words and actions that would damage an agreement reached between the two countries on Japan's sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II.
A man who has organized a series of meetings promoting the legalization of rape could be barred from entering Australia, after Immigration Minister Peter Dutton announced he would personally look into the matter.
More than 2,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country's national health institute said, as the disease continues its spread across the Americas.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for the rapid development of tests, vaccines and treatments to fight the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus
A deal struck between Japan and South Korea purporting to finally end a long-standing rift between the two countries over the "comfort women" issue was lambasted Tuesday by two former Korean women who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels.
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