The human rights treaty of the Council of Europe states that men and women have equal rights, and obliges state authorities to take steps to prevent gender-based violence against women, protect victims and prosecute perpetrators.

Carrie Fisher is receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a May the Fourth tribute to one of the “Star Wars” franchise's most beloved figures.

Sadai Banowan, which means women's voice in Dari, is Afghanistan's only women-run station and started 10 years ago. It has eight staff, six of them female.

Women's basketball seems to have found a winner with its new Sweet 16 format in March Madness and the timing couldn't be better with looming TV contract negotiations on the horizon.

Black female players who have been coached by a Black woman told The Associated Press that it was crucial to their development.

“We need more men to hold each other accountable when women are being hurt or being left behind.”

Asked by one congressman how she could be a mother of two small children and a congresswoman, Schroeder replied: “I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.” One of her biggest victories was signing a family leave bill in 1993, providing job protection for care of a newborn, sick child or parent.

“We believe that women can be gifted and empowered as teachers and as pastors.”

The move is largely symbolic: Saddleback still operates as a church, and its members will not be overtly impacted. But the Southern Baptist leadership’s ejection of such a high-profile member church underlines the denomination’s internal struggles with gender, sexuality, abuse, politics and race, including criticisms from an energetic right flank that the group is drifting to the “woke” left.

The Spanish parliament on Thursday approved legislation expanding abortion and transgender rights for teenagers, while making Spain the first country in Europe that will entitle workers to paid menstrual leave.