Women education
Half of Afghan women rarely leave home as Taliban restrictions deepen, UN agency says
Afghanistan remains the only country in the world to ban girls from secondary education and women from attending university.
A small and insufficient victory: Female Torah scholars - opinion
Invest in women: Why gender equality matters for Israel’s future – opinion
Women’s entrepreneurship: Resilience and leadership in times of crisis - opinion
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This woman revolutionized Israel’s education system - here’s how
Long before COVID, Yaffa Zilbershats was promoting the concept of remote digital learning in order to make higher education accessible to all segments of the population.
Protests get harder for Afghan women amid risks and red tape
Those who broke the rules were sometimes whipped in public by the Islamist militants' "moral police."
Taliban prevents girls from going back to high school as education system reopens
At some of the schools that have managed to operate, girls up to the sixth grade have attended, and women students have gone to university classes. But high schools for girls have been closed.
Taliban say women can study at university but classes must be segregated
Taliban's new Higher Education minister said on Sunday that women in Afghanistan will be allowed to study in universities but gender segregation and Islamic dress code will be mandatory.
BGU program promoting girls in STEM wins Astronautical Federation G3 prize
The G3 award is granted yearly to organizations who work for diversity in the field of space research and have shown excellent results.
Israeli ninth-grader wins gold at European Girls Mathematical Olympiad
Ninth-grader Noga Friedman of Rehovot's De Shalit Middle School won a gold medal and Ya'ara Shulman, a tenth-grader who studies at Herzliya's Rishonim High School, won a silver medal.
Remembering women’s rights on Int'l Women’s Day - and everyday
Women face uphill climb to equality in the MENA region.
Int'l Women's Day: Keter is closing the gender pay gap for women
According to the Adva Center, an organization that analyses Israeli policy, the gender pay gap has not only not disappeared with time, but has actually grown in 2020.
