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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

gender gap

Women from a broad spectrum of Israeli society gather for Kumi's first conference at Sapir College, near Sderot, in southern Israel, on February 26, 2025. (Noa Sharvit)
May 17, 2025, 7:59 am
In Western Negev, budding female entrepreneurs rebuild their communities, and themselves
Over 300 women join Kumi, started by Australian-born Israeli, to gain confidence, skills, seed funding, and more as they pursue projects aimed at meeting often-overlooked needs
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Chairwomen and female CEOs of tech and biomed companies ring the opening ball at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in celebration of International Women's Day, March 7, 2024. (Courtesy)
March 6, 2025, 8:20 pm
Only one-tenth of Israeli startups are headed by female CEOs as gender gap persists
Women hold around 17% of senior management positions in private tech firms; overall share of women in Israeli tech workforce stagnates, study by Israel Innovation Authority shows
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, May 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 16, 2024, 8:17 pm
State comptroller finds wage gap, underrepresentation of women in local government
Report also finds persistence of ‘real gaps in all areas of life between Ethiopians and the rest of the Jewish population’ decades after primary waves of immigration
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: Haredi young women who are part of the Adva program that aims to train them with skills for the tech sector (Courtesy)
March 7, 2024, 5:57 pm
Still underrepresented, share of women in Israeli tech workforce stagnates
Women make up a little more than a third of the total number of tech employees but their share of senior management jobs is lower, and only 13% of CEOs are female
By Sharon Wrobel
Claudia Goldin speaks to a reporter on the phone in her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after learning that she received the Nobel Prize in Economics, Oct. 9, 2023 (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
October 9, 2023, 3:33 pm
Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in Economics for work on women in the labor market
Jewish professor, only the 3rd female winner, hailed for research that ‘reveals the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap’
By Johannes LEDEL
Students at Tel Aviv University on the first day of the academic year, October 10, 2021. (Flash90, via JTA)
July 17, 2023, 11:38 pm
Universities bristle at demand to use only masculine form in official documents
Tel Aviv University says it will ‘uphold its practice of publishing tenders that address men and women equally’; Bezalel art school to use only feminine form for a month
By ToI Staff
A group photo of the 37th Government of Israel, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, December 29, 2022 (Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office)
June 30, 2023, 11:05 pm
Israel plummets 23 spots in gender equality index to 83rd in the world
Israel has closed only 70.1% of gender gap, according to World Economic Forum report; current government criticized for lack of female representation, with only 6 cabinet ministers
By ToI Staff
An Israeli woman outside a distribution center for needy people in Lod, September 11, 2012. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 3, 2021, 11:35 pm
Minimum wage hikes in Israel benefit men more than women, think tank says
Salary increases for lowest wage earners contributed to gender gap in employment, with more women losing work, according to new study
By Luke Tress
Tzipporah Machlah Klapper
March 25, 2018, 7:55 am
Tzipporah Machlah Klapper
You’re female? Orthodox? Learn Torah? Beware
The world is not ready for your desire to excel: 39 problems in Modern Orthodox Torah learning for women
Naomi Chazan
March 12, 2018, 12:39 pm
Naomi Chazan
Doing gender equality
If we want a just, decent society, we must close the gaps between men and women
Israeli Bedouin women working at a Bezeq customer service center on July 27, 2015. The call center is located in a mosque, in the Arab town of Hura. The women have been employed through the Rayan employment center in Rahat. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 4, 2018, 4:35 pm
Arab Israeli women make inroads in education, job market, study says
Taub Center report shows that share of Arab Israeli women pursuing higher education is growing, but many challenges remain
By Shoshanna Solomon
Some of QueenB‘s 120 middle school girls, who learn computer programming at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, pictured here in 2017. (Courtesy QueenB)
November 7, 2017, 3:38 pm
QueenB takes a byte out of gender gap to promote diversity in tech
Jerusalem-area initiative that teaches middle-school girls coding and confidence wins $72,000 at the WeWork Creator Awards
By Grace Austin
Esther Kustanowitz
October 15, 2017, 3:16 pm
Esther Kustanowitz
The 6 confirmed GA speakers were all men
No matter how many women present, these are poor optics, and we must work harder to prevent them
ITWorks' technology workshops and training courses seek to close social gaps in Israel (Courtesy)
September 3, 2017, 1:50 pm
Nonprofit startup eyes untapped local talent in Israel tech scene
ITWorks aims to help people in the country’s social and geographic periphery partake in the startup nation boom
By Shoshanna Solomon
Screen capture from video of journalist and co-founder of the Women's Equality Party, Catherine Mayer, during a television interview with the BBC, October 2015. (YouTube/Mike Buchanan)
August 6, 2017, 12:57 pm
Former top Time journalist sues over sexual discrimination
Catherine Mayer claims she was pushed out of her position as European editor at weekly by a system of ‘male cronyism’
By Stuart Winer
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