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“You have muscles like a boy’s” was a usual sentence received by Egyptian champion bodybuilder Dina Abdel-Maksoud, the 20-year-old engineering…

  Sports teacher Nehaya Dhaher was living a quiet life looking after her elderly mother in Iraq’s tribal south when…

  At the Indian temple that is the focus of a battle over gender equality, Hindu hardliners are in festive…

  Clashes erupted in India on Wednesday as traditionalists tried to stop women visiting one of Hinduism’s most sacred temples,…

Since picking up a wrench as one of the first female car mechanics in conservative Pakistan, Uzma Nawaz has faced…

(CNN)  ̶  The image of the braided Kurdish female fighter, donning military camouflage and taking up arms against the militant…

  Egypt’s State Council President Ahmed Abou Al-Azm said there was no constitutional prohibition to appointing women as judges in…

  Egypt national women’s squash team made its first victory on Tuesday, in the World Squash Tournament held in Dalian,…

  A government survey sparked by a discrimination scandal has found most Japanese medical schools admit male applicants at a…

GENEVA (Reuters) – The husband of detained Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was himself arrested on Tuesday, Amnesty International…