The ordination of female deacons is no longer on the agenda during a global assembly at the Vatican, but will be discussed ...

I’ve said that women ... gender equality across the full breadth of foreign and development policy makes both more effective. It is also the morally right thing to do. From the prime minister ...

After years of effort, the traditionally macho country has a female president, chief justice, central bank chief and more.

The contenders included two women ... Japan’s first woman prime minister. Her election “would give an impression that Japan made a step forward” in gender equality, said Momoko Nojo ...

The Labour MP for Canterbury resigned earlier today as a result of the party's "cruel and unnecessary policies".

Less than two weeks before the summer General Election, Tennant said in a speech at the British LGBT Awards that he wished the then-minister for women and equalities would ‘shut up’.

New Delhi: Asserting true equality ... women' at all levels of governance -- local bodies, legislative assemblies and Parliament. The Indira Fellowship is an initiative in honour of former prime ...

October is Women’s History Month in Canada, a time to celebrate the women and girls from our past, and our present, who are contributing to a better, more inclusive Canada. In 1992, the Government of ...