Prime Minister Imran Khan said that it was "common sense" that provocative clothing would provoke sexual violence. "If a woman is wearing very few clothes it will have an impact on the man unless they are robots," Khan said. He also talked about removing "temptation" from society to quell the rising numbers of rape and sexual assault in Pakistan.

"Men's voices are critical because of, not in spite of, their gender. When men speak up against gender disparities or gender discrimination, they not only become visible as allies who can be counted on to support industry or company initiatives to advance parity, they also foster awareness and acceptance about gender inequity as a shared problem not a special interest."

From 2015 to 2019, 2,058 men in Zimbabwe died by suicide as compared to 505 females during the same period, suggesting that the expectations and pressure that come from being in such a culturally dominant society can be devastating–especially for men.

According to a report released Tuesday by Gender on the Ballot, a nonpartisan project to examine gender dynamics in politics, 68 percent of women who supported Biden last November said Harris being on the ticket was a factor in their voting decision. For those women polled who supported former President Donald Trump, 39 percent said Harris being on the ballot was a factor in their voting decision.

Women who excel in STEM subjects defy the odds stacked against them. To mark International Women's Day, Newsweek takes a look at just a handful of women who have changed our world for the better.

A Republican state representative in Idaho argued against federal funding for early childhood education and child care, saying: "I don't think anybody does a better job than mothers in the home, and any bill that makes it easier or more convenient for mothers to come out of the home and let others raise their child, I don't think that's a good direction for us to be going."

When rhetorically answering how wives can keep husbands from straying, pastor Stewart-Allen Clark said, "weight control." "I have a friend. He has put a 'divorce weight' on his wife—that's how important this is," Clark said.

The viral video of a distressed Marine tearfully explaining how a senior officer's intervention would allow her alleged attacker to remain in the military has disturbed not only the public, but also women veterans. They told Newsweek that such injustice proved that the bonds of the tight-knit brothers-in-arms did not always extend to their sisters-in-arms.

In addition, more white people adhered to the idea that voter fraud happened. According to the poll, 54 percent of white American men believed that widespread voter fraud occurred during the 2020 presidential election while 36 percent of white women in the U.S. agreed.

The executive actions taken by President Biden are a result of years of organizing, much led by women of color, and offer a hopeful and expansive path toward a country that serves all communities.

In the 1920s, more than 8 million women, or 1 in 5, were earning salaries, typically as clerks, waitresses, teachers, and telephone operators, laboring amid attitudes that women should not work outside the home if their husbands were employed and that working women were taking jobs away from men who needed them more. Plenty of high-paying, powerful jobs were kept out of women's reach, and women often were expected to quit their paying jobs if they got married.

In an effort to address the prevalance of harassment of women in public spaces, the city of Lucknow is set to deploy facial recognition in a bid to detect the expressions of women being harassed. But the strategy is eliciting concern among digital rights advocates who are concerned about issues of privacy and consent.