U.S. female surgeons expect to earn $1 million less than men - study
Women in general surgery expected to be paid an average of $30,000 less each year than men over a 30-year career
Anti-slavery comic warns U.S. teens about 'wolves in the street'
Could online comics based on real experiences of trafficking survivors prevent tech-savvy teenagers from being enslaved?
UBS to ramp up training, set up sexual misconduct hotline
The changes follow a review into how UBS handled a former junior staff's initial allegation that she was raped by a senior colleague
Investors bank on women for financial and social gains
There are signs that business is increasingly open to so-called 'gender lens investing', where investments are expressly made to benefit women
How China's one-child policy led to forced marriages in Myanmar
The lack of women and girls in China has helped create a thriving market for trafficked girls and young women from neighbouring countries
'Ashamed and scared': group details 'endemic' sex abuse in North Korea
Those interviewed described sexual abuse and rape by police, prison guards and officials
Ethiopia gets its first female supreme court president
Last week the Horn of Africa country named Sahle-Work Zewde as president, also the first woman to hold that post
Indonesia protests to Saudi over execution of maid convicted of murder
Indonesian advocacy group Migrant Care said in September that the mother of one had been defending herself from being raped
Where goats drink first: Women struggle as coastal India grows saltier
Faced with drinking, bathing in and working in saltier water as a result of climate change, women are facing new health threats