UK companies urged to boost efforts to close gender pay gap
This is the second year that all companies and charities in Britain with more than 250 employees have had to report their gender pay gap
Congo arrests rebel leader wanted for mass rape
Masudi Alimasi Kokodiko led the Raia Mutomboki militia, which is said to have killed more than 260 civilians and carried out mass rape
Scottish 'Holocaust heroine' who saved Jewish girls lauded in book
Jane Haining, who cared for hundreds of Jewish girls at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, died at Auschwitz camp after the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944
Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women
Women have suffered injuries and miscarriages due to carrying heavy loads, but a pulley system has transformed their work
Pad Women - the all-female business easing period poverty in Sri Lanka
Commercially produced towels typically sell for between 100 and 140 rupees, putting them out of reach of most Sri Lankan women
Facebook's ads system leans on stereotypes for housing, job ads - study
The social media firm directs advertising to people according to stereotypes that could fuel race and gender discrimination, researchers found
Biden, mulling White House run, seeks to stem fallout from women's complaints
In recent days, four women have said Biden made them feel uncomfortable when he touched them at political events in past years
FACTBOX-U.S. universities take close look at campus sexual assault
More than 20 percent of female college students have reported being sexually assaulted as a student
Saudi women activists back in court as West watches
Few charges have been made public, but they are understood to be related to human rights work and communicating with foreigners
Saudi women activists back in court as West watches
Three dozen countries, including all 28 EU members, have called on Riyadh to free the activists