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Women and gender
News and analysis on women's rights, the gender gap, LGBTQ issues, sexual harassment, sexual minorities and masculinity in Asia and beyond.
French actor Gerard Depardieu is seen outside the courtroom during his trial on Tueday. Photo: AFP
Sexual harassment and assault

Depardieu admits grabbing woman by the hips but denies it was sexual assault

Amelie K says the film star groped her and made explicit comments, in the highest-profile #MeToo case to come before France’s courts.

Crime

Man on trial in France for burning wife to death

Human trafficking

Tate brothers check in at police station after returning to Romania

Fame and celebrity

Meet Alba Hurup Larsen, the speedy young female Danish racer

Larsen only started competing when she was about 11 years old – now, almost 16, she’s racing against the best young female drivers in F1 Academy with mentoring from F1 driver Kevin Magnussen.

Alba Hurup Larsen prepares to race. Photo: @alba.racing/Instagram
Trending in China

‘Muscle grandma’ with young physique wins bodybuilding title after decades training

Super fit, middle-aged mother-of-one rejects online criticism that she looks old, works to challenge traditional stereotypes about ageing.

Fashion

Young Afghan women ditch burka for ‘more comfortable’ alternatives

Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban’s ‘gender apartheid’ have adopted the abaya robe favoured in Gulf nations.

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Art

Showtime: 4 unmissable art exhibitions to keep you cultured

Not-to-be-missed artists about to open in Hong Kong include Emma McIntyre, Lynne Drexler, Louise Bourgeois and Emma Webster.

Emma McIntyre’s Portals and altars (2024). Photo: courtesy Emma McIntyre / Château Shatto (Los Angeles) / David Zwirner (New York)
Banking & finance

Top Hong Kong women CEOs talk about the school that fuelled their success

HKEX’s Bonnie Chan, SFC’s Julia Leung and Hang Seng Bank’s Diana Cesar talk about the school that shaped their worldwiew and beliefs.

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IOC

Profile | New IOC president Kirsty Coventry faces complex geopolitics and gender minefield

China offers its support to first woman to lead the Olympic Movement, but she will arrive to a challenging in-tray.

Thailand

Pregnant women among hundreds in limbo at Thai-Myanmar border in scams curb

Thailand is fronting a regional effort to dismantle scam centres along its borders, which are part of a fraud network across multiple countries.

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Victims of scam centres who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, sit in a compound on the Thailand-Myanmar border in February. Photo: via Reuters
IOC

Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president: first woman, African to land role

Coventry, the Zimbabwean sports minister, is a close ally of German Thomas Bach, who steps down as IOC chief after 12 years.

Kirsty Coventry reacts after being elected the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Costa Navarino, Greece on Thursday. Photo: AFP
Weddings

Self-love, not marriage or motherhood: Korean women spurn family life

A US$200,000 wedding ceremony? In this economy? South Korean women choose to stay single, some even staging self-weddings with their pets.

South Korea

South Korea’s foreign population hits record high, but many struggle with low pay

South Korea’s record surge in foreign residents reveals wage disparities and education challenges for immigrant families.

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Trending in China

Chinese couple have 9 daughters, all named ‘di’, hoping for a son

Many Chinese couples believe son can support them in old age, viewing daughter as akin to water that has been poured out when they marry.

A Chinese couple, longing for a son, welcomed nine daughters over 20 years, all named with the character “di”, meaning “brother”, reflecting traditional beliefs in son preference in China. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Australia

Openly gay Australian football player still faces online death threats

Josh Cavallo, who plays for Adelaide United, was 21 in 2021 when he decided to come out.

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Josh Cavallo, who plays for Adelaide United, was 21 in 2021 when he decided to come out. Photo: via AP
Japan

Boyfriend? Underwear colour? Improper questions Japan’s female job-hunters face

One in three female students report being sexually harassed while applying for jobs in Japan’s male-dominated corporate world.

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Hong Kong population

Opinion | Hong Kong is right to get out of way of women who do want children

The proposal to lift the 10-year cap on embryo storage must come with more measures to make it easier to both give birth and raise a family.

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Sex and relationships

Sadness, fear, even disgust? How young Koreans view marriage and childbirth

A study finds young South Koreans overwhelmingly associate marriage, parenting and childbirth with negative emotions.

A bride leans on a pillar before a mass wedding ceremony organised by the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, South Korea, on February 7, 2020. A new study of young Koreans’ internet posts found that 67.1 percent of marriage-related posts reflected negative sentiment. Photo: AFP
European Union

Paris boxing gender row was product of Russian fake news

A gender row involving two female boxers at the 2024 Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign, Olympic officials said.

Asia

Malaysian mothers win partial victory for children’s citizenship rights

Malaysian mothers have won a fight granting citizenship to their overseas-born children, but many remain in limbo.

India

Video | India’s female brewers

The women brewing change in India, one beer at a time
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Diplomacy

As the US backslides, can China claim moral high ground on women’s rights?

Three decades have passed since the Chinese capital hosted a landmark women’s conference. Now it plans to do it again.

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Japan

7 men arrested in Japan for abusing their daughters, sharing child pornography

The suspects, in their 30s to 50s, filmed and shared obscene videos of the assaults, with victims as young as three.

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Crime

UK man who killed 3 women gets life in prison, Andrew Tate cited as influence

Prosecutors say Kyle Clifford’s attack on his ex-girlfriend and her family was fuelled by influencer Andrew Tate’s ‘violent misogyny’.

Hong Kong science and tech

Round table: what can women in STEM do to lead change?

PostMag hosted a discussion between 5 Hong Kong-based innovators blazing a trail: Florence Chan, Angela Wu, Wendy Lam, Gina Jiang and Megan Lam.

Women innovators in science and tech (from left) Megan Lam, Wendy Lam, Angela Wu, Florence Chan and Gina Jiang. Photo: TMT
Malaysia

Malaysian mums secure automatic citizenship for overseas-born children

The settlement, however, excludes adult children, leaving many without citizenship rights.

Plaintiffs in a case challenging a law preventing Malaysian women passing their citizenship on to overseas-born children outside the Kuala Lumpur High Court. Photo: AFP/Family Frontiers
Hong Kong

Engineer by training, brewer by profession – and she’s breaking barriers

Anushka Purohit founded food upcycling craft beer brand Breer at just 18 – it’s been a long road of breaking ageist and sexist stereotypes.

Old Hong Kong

Then & Now | How Hong Kong led the way for women priests in the 1970s

Hong Kong was decades ahead of Britain when it came to the ordination of women priests, even though that might seem unlikely today.

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