Sexism

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

According to the report, Pentagon rules outline that the defense secretary is only supposed to remove officers from the promotion list for professional failings that would impact their new role.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth holds a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, US, March 2, 2026
Posters advertising the Zefat Academic College were vandalized to hide the image of women.

Images of female Zefat Academic College students vandalized in Safed

The billboards had only been installed a day before the vandalism, and the advertisements featuring male pupils were left untouched.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Iranian state media censors legs of foreign officials at UNGA.

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

Iran, known for its restrictive modesty laws that have seen women murdered for failing to cover their hair, blurred the legs of Finnish FM Elina Valtonen and Swedish FM Maria Malmer Stenergard.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Israel's Roni Ohayon in action during women's goalball at the IBSA World Games in Coventry, Britain August 21, 2023.

Israel Railways settles with Paralympic medalist over gender discrimination case

A supervisor demanded that Roni Ohayon give up a seat for the disabled because an ultra-Orthodox man refused to sit next to her.

|ByAVICHAY CHAIM

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.

MARCH 22, 2019ByHANNAH KATSMAN
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.

MARCH 8, 2019ByAMY SPIRO
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.

JANUARY 22, 2019ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
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.

OCTOBER 27, 2018BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Veiled women in the northern province of Raqqa, Iraq