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MK LIMOR SON HAR-MELECH attends a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, earlier this year. She has presented a bill which seeks to expand and legitimize gender segregation in Israel’s institutions of higher education, beyond what the High Court has permitted.

Hypocrisy and deception: The gender segregation bill

MK Limor Son Har-Melech and MK Gilad Kariv attend Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on August 7, 2024.

Knesset advances controversial gender segregation bill for higher education

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

FemTech 2024

Why is the gender gap in tech so large? Entrepreneurs push for change at FemTech 2024

By Veronica Neifakh / The Media Line

Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 25, 2023.

Yom Kippur prayers in Tel Aviv can take place with partitions to separate genders, High Court rules

By Maya Gur Arieh

THE HIGH COURT of Justice holds a session. In the past, the court ruled that women cannot be forced to take a specific seat on a bus, the writer notes.

Expanding gender segregation threatens equality in Israel

By ANAT THON ASHKENAZY

Inside the Knesset building.

Knesset approves tens of thousands of shekels worth of benefits for relatives of Hamas hostages

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An illustrative of the wife of a reserve soldier whose payments were taxed.

Gender equality struggles intensify for Israeli women during war

By Nathan Klabin/The Media Line

The writer speaks during a committee discussion in the Knesset about the demand for equality in Israeli politics.

Women’s voices will be catalysts for change

By Yael Yechieli

Women hold signs as they protest for women equality, in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2022.

Comptroller: Not enough female representation in local municipalities

Israel's SlutWalk marches through Jerusalem

Jerusalem SlutWalk to protest rape culture, victim blaming

Teudat Zehut, Israeli ID card 370

Knesset allows transgender people to remove 'dead name' from IDs

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

WIZO in Strasbourg, 2009

WIZO’s annual gender wage gap report shows fair salary gender equality in workforce

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Dr. Esther Luzzato

Should Women Wait Until 2061 For Equality? Not An Option

By Dr. Esther Luzzatto , Adv. Tamar Luzzatto

GROUP NINETEEN Negev office.

Helping women return to the job market during the war

By RIVKA NEUMANN

GROUP NINETEEN Negev office.

High-status connections are good for men, not so great for women

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

DIRECTOR-GENERAL of the Competition Authority Michal Cohen attends a Knesset Economic Affairs Committee meeting last month.

There is a lack of women in Israeli ministry leadership

By ANAT THON-ASHKENAZY

A protester holding an "Abuse isn't Love" sign at a protest against violence against women in Tel Aviv

War times impact survivors of domestic abuse emotionally and financially

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

NOW IS the time to embrace unity.

Hanukkah 2023: Eight wishes to hope for amid ongoing darkness

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN