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News and analysis on women's rights, the gender gap, LGBTQ issues, sexual harassment, sexual minorities and masculinity in Asia and beyond.
With ‘grey divorce’ – divorce among older adults – on the up, we asked an expert why this is occurring and how couples can salvage a long-standing emotional partnership when things aren’t right.
Ahead of her first Hong Kong exhibition, ArtisTree Selects: Enchanted Forest, Portuguese installation artist Joana Vasconcelos talks about how the city inspires her, and her painstaking creative process.
Filipino women escorted by Chinese nationals posing as their husbands have been intercepted at the border, immigration officials say. Anti-trafficking experts suspect organised crime groups are involved.
China registers 7.68 million newlywed couples, up 845,000 from the previous year in what analysts say is sign of post-pandemic wedding rebound.
Young people are putting off marriage due to ‘structural challenges’, as demographers say data shows fertility rates are likely to continue declining.
Days after the Oscars, Olivia Munn revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer a year ago and survived – so which other celebrities also overcame the life-threatening disease?
The phenomenon is in stark contrast to China’s official clubs and elite politics, where female participation is minimal, if not absent.
A 2017 government report showing more than half of South Korean men had paid for sex at least once in their lives, despite the nation’s anti-prostitution law.
The court said that disallowing the marriages deprived people of their personal interests.
The amendment will allow foreign-born children to Malaysian mothers and their non-Malaysian spouse to automatically get citizenship, ending years of struggle for many.
The trend means couples can ‘experience parenthood’ while maintaining a preferred lifestyle that includes work-life balance, holidays and date nights.
They will use an online platform to learn how to use Microsoft’s AI tools to gain workplace skills and to be able to recognise cybersecurity threats.
Fresh from her talk at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, newly minted author Sonia Leung tells Kate Whitehead about life in a Diamond Hill slum, a devastating rape and how she finally followed her dream.
The words of senior figures echo the call of French President Emmanuel Macron, after France anchored the right to abortion into its constitution on March 4.
Trapped in a cycle of debt and exploitation by the host clubs of Tokyo’s Kabukicho nightlife district, ‘Yu’ found herself forced to work in a ‘soapland’ brothel in Macau.
Proposed tweaks to the ‘old-fashioned’ text were defeated in a referendum coinciding with International Women’s Day.
Spousal violence can be pronounced among immigrants who are socially or culturally isolated, experts say, and there often is a stigma about seeking help.
Funding woes, work-life balance and prejudice remain hurdles for women entrepreneurs, who say having supportive business partners and spouses can be half the battle won.
Alabama lawmaker Katie Britt’s ‘bizarre’ performance from her home kitchen was panned across the political spectrum.
The women farmers joining in the protest say they want the government to recognise their labour contribution and struggles.
Ahead of International Women’s Day, delegates at this week’s ‘two sessions’ parliamentary gatherings call for reproductive reforms and highlight problems that remain prevalent in China’s rural areas.
Senior female business leadership in the Asia-Pacific region has been shrinking this year and is lagging behind other parts of the world, with the lack of flexible working in the post-Covid era posing a hindrance to gender parity, Grant Thornton says.
Breastfeeding is unpopular in China with many mothers citing embarrassment but also a lack of suitable facilities and the absence of social support.
The ratio of ultra-rich women stood at 11 per cent of the global total last year, compared with 6.5 per cent in 2010, as changing attitudes towards women doing business has led to a large number of self-made female multimillionaires, according to a survey by Julius Baer.
On International Women’s Day, readers discuss the need to better support women as they move up the career ladder, migrant domestic workers’ efforts to create a more inclusive city, and the Hong Kong government’s baby bonus.
Recent data and warnings from social workers suggest that Hong Kong women tend to save less but need more money when they reach retirement age.
Japan is ranked 73rd out of 190 countries surveyed in an assessment of equality between genders, below the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Nepal and Lesotho.
A bright girl who was only half way through year two of her secondary school studies was told by her angry mother that learning is a waste of money, and was sent out to work instead.