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Chinese lion dance troupe shrugs off patriarchal past
AFP, Published on 27/01/2025
» SHANTOU (CHINA) - Flinging her male teammate into the air, performer Lin Xinmeng practises China's world-famous lion dance with a troupe that is shrugging off centuries of patriarchal norms.
Quick, tidy up! They're here: San Francisco scrambles for APEC
AFP, Published on 13/11/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - Like a housework-shy couple who suddenly discover the neighbors are dropping round, San Francisco is in tidying panic mode as it readies for thousands of influential APEC visitors.
Singaporeans jailed for pouring hot coffee on Indonesian domestic helper
South China Morning Post, Published on 09/03/2023
» A week into her first job in Singapore, a domestic helper told her employer that she wanted to return to the maid agency, as her employer's wife and daughter were never satisfied with her work performance.
'Dark future': The distress of Afghan women who can no longer work
AFP, Published on 19/11/2021
» KABUL - At 21 years old, Madina had her dream job: she was a journalist, her salary crucial to her family's life in Afghanistan.
Pandemic delays gender parity by a generation: WEF
AFP, Published on 31/03/2021
» GENEVA - The pandemic has rolled back years of progress towards equality between men and women, according to a report released Wednesday showing the crisis had added decades to the trajectory towards closing the gender gap.
Chinese court orders man to pay ex-wife for housework in landmark ruling
AFP, Published on 24/02/2021
» BEIJING: A Chinese man has been ordered to pay his ex-wife almost a quarter of a million baht for years of unpaid housework, in a landmark divorce case that has sparked furious debate in China.
Pandemic raises Japan suicide rate after decade of decline
AFP, Published on 22/01/2021
» TOKYO: The number of people taking their own lives in Japan rose for the first time in over a decade last year, as the pandemic reversed years of progress combatting a stubbornly high suicide rate.
Virus despair forces girls across Asia into child marriage
AFP, Published on 01/09/2020
» NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of girls across Asia are being forced into marriage by desperate families plunged into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, as campaigners warn years of progress tackling the practice is being undone.
Women bear the brunt of virus fallout in workplace
AFP, Published on 21/06/2020
» LONDON: The reverberating economic shock of the coronavirus crisis has delivered a massive setback for women because so many work in the badly exposed services sector, experts say.
Swiss women rise up for equal pay
AFP, Published on 14/06/2019
» GENEVA - Statues draped in purple in Neuchatel, blocked traffic in Lausanne and a massive clenched fist feminist symbol projected onto a skyscraper in Basel: women across Switzerland went on strike Friday for equal pay.