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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
Gal Gadot in a scene from 'Wonder Woman.' (Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)
June 20, 2017, 8:35 pm
Fans fume over Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman’ salary
Israeli star’s far-from-wondrous $300,000 payout is compared to a Superman’s $14 million, but some say those figures don’t tell the full story
By TOI staff
Yeshiva University's Department of Communications and Public Affairs, New York (Scaligera/Wikimedia Commons)
May 12, 2017, 4:47 pm
No solution to the gender wage gap at flagship Orthodox university
A Yeshiva University faculty report finds women still earn between 12%-17% less than men and are outnumbered two-to-one
By Yaakov Schwartz
Women commanders in the IDF C4I programmers course: (from right to left) Lt. Rotem Falach, Lt. Noi Shaki, Lt. Savyon Levy, Lt. Lior Dariel (Courtesy: IDF)
February 6, 2017, 5:38 pm
IDF targets women for tech as Israel feels worker pinch
‘If half of Israel’s population is women, we should see that reflected in our tech units,’ but we don’t, says female commander of elite communications corps’ prep course
By Shoshanna Solomon
Malka Simkovich
August 18, 2016, 1:31 pm
Malka Simkovich
She works hard for the money
Forget about Orthodox women rabbis (and what they should be called) for now; let’s talk equal and transparent pay
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox women at an Israeli high-tech company (Abir Sultan/Flash90)
March 7, 2016, 12:46 pm
Israeli women earn 22% less than men, study finds
Israel’s wage gap is fourth in size among developed countries; nearly 90% of educated women work
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Women in the boardroom. (Pixabay)
From the WebOctober 9, 2015, 1:05 am
An Israeli ad agency may have cracked the all-male panel problem
Fortune: McCann Tel Aviv’s new rule: At least half of conference panel members must be female
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