Sexism

Syrian university restriction on female enrollment deepens concerns over women’s rights

Syria’s Higher Education Ministry announced that admission to law, economics and management, and social sciences programs at the National University of Defense Sciences would be restricted to men.

Women walk past a mural with the slogan "no to violence" (against women) drawn on the walls of a school in Syria's northern city of Manbij on December 21, 2024.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth holds a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, US, March 2, 2026

Hegseth blocked female, minority Navy officers from promotion to admiral - report

Posters advertising the Zefat Academic College were vandalized to hide the image of women.

Images of female Zefat Academic College students vandalized in Safed

Iranian state media censors legs of foreign officials at UNGA.

'They panic at our ankle': Iran censors legs of Swedish, Finnish FMs at UNGA


How were Israel's television anchorwomen perceived on social media?

New research found social media users to criticize anchorwomen Yonit Levi, Geula Even-Saar and Tamar Ish Shalom primarily in sexist, and sexual, connotations.

Yonit Levi with Tony Blair

I’m suing Ikea over this sexist catalog

Ikea’s catalog for haredim contains language and products geared to the sector’s needs, such as extra hanging space for men’s shirts and large bookcases for storing volumes of the Talmud.

IKEA creates haredi version of catalogue

What was the sexist Israeli ad in 2018?

WIZO also crowns its top offending commercial of the decade ahead of International Women's Day.

A screenshot from the Castro commercial 'Where is the dress from?'

Meretz launches campaign protesting Bnei Brak billboard bamboozle

The Meretz activists will display an electronic changing billboard entirely made up of pictures of women at Dizengoff Center on Friday.

Meretz Party Leader Tamar Zandberg holding a sign saying #YouWillNotEraseMe as a protest of her face being removed from Bnei Brak billboards, 2019.

Iraq's new government lacks female ministers

UN Special Representative Jan Kubis lamented the lack of women among the 14 ministers who have been appointed.

Veiled women in the northern province of Raqqa, Iraq