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Championing change, empowerment for at-risk young women: Orna Barbivai's new job

We don't have to go to South Africa: We went on a women's journey in Kenya

Hilla Bakshi speaks at the Women Leaders Summit on March 28, 2024.

Unleash your networking potential: 5 tips for women by high-tech guru Hilla Bakshi

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

(L-R) Michal and President Isaac Hezog and Rabbi Benny Lau listen to Prof. Ruchama Elbaz

Grapevine March 22, 2024: Force of females

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

Israel's Knesset hosts conference for International Women's Day

By ELIAV BREUER

Palestinian women sit at the debris of a house destroyed in an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip November 13, 2019

Hamas celebrates UN call for probe into alleged IDF abuses of Palestinian women

A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

IOF releases report on violence against Israeli women in 2023

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THREE GIRLS proudly show their hair donations. The bat-mitzvah age is the most common for hair donations.

Bat mitzvah girls demonstrate Israeli moral strength with hair donations

By CHAIM EHRENTAL

Women protesting for abortion rights, forty-five years after Roe v. Wade.

Judge temporarily exempts women with complicated pregnancies from Texas abortion ban

By REUTERS

Women shop at a street in Tehran, Iran, November 29, 2021.

What do MENA Muslims think about the role of women in society? – study

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

How do you react when your children ask to wear make-up and dress up?

By Walla!

THE US Supreme Court building in Washington: As many in Israel believe today, the Anti-Federalists, who opposed the constitution, objected to governorship by the court and feared such power granted to the court could render it an absolute ruler.

US Supreme Court turns away case on charter school's mandatory skirts for girls

By REUTERS

An Afghan woman and a girl walk in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 9, 2022

Sixty Afghan girls hospitalized after school poisoning - police

By REUTERS

Syrian refugee women and children work in a field in Al-Khiam village, near the Israeli border in south Lebanon October 13, 2017.

Lebanese women find work, if they can get it, 'senseless' due to economic conditions

By DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE

Yael Schoultz founded a group called L'Chaim, which counsels and supports sex workers.

Condoms and tikkun olam: An Orthodox woman strives to aid sex workers in Prague

By DINAH SPRITZER/JTA

Princesses of the Xiongnu society shaped Mongolian life as they knew it.

In the ancient world, women played more powerful role than previously thought - study

By JOANIE MARGULIES

A young girl raises an Israeli flag.

Jewish women's org. celebrates eight women who changed Israeli history

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A boy sits in a van with others while heading to their school in Pakistan.

Girls’ college in northern Pakistan reopens 15 years after closure

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE