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US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.'s Grand Boulé, July 24, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
July 25, 2024, 1:51 pm
Republican leaders urge party members to avoid sexism, racism toward Kamala Harris
Attacks by GOP members this week against the US vice president include calling her a ‘DEI hire’ and saying her lack of biological children should disqualify her
By AP and ToI Staff
An aerial view of American Jewish University's Sunny & Isadore Familian Campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Communications Department, AJU via JTA)
June 20, 2024, 9:40 am
US rabbinical school says probe of seminary found no systemic sexism or homophobia
But American Jewish University does not intend to release report that questioned 200 people, despite calls for transparency from some who alleged abuse
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rima Hassan, founder of the Refugees Camps Observatory (Observatoire des Camps de Réfugies - OCR), in Paris, France, November 14, 2019. (Dominique Faget / AFP)
February 3, 2024, 7:11 am
In France, a celebrity flame war about Israel highlights shifting attitudes
Young Palestinian woman – a Hamas advocate – enjoys an outpouring of sympathy following a wealthy Jewish TV star’s rebuke of her remarks supporting the Oct. 7 massacre
By Canaan Lidor
Families of young female surveillance soldiers killed on October 7 attend a hearing in the Knesset, January 9, 2024. (Sam Sokol)
January 9, 2024, 6:06 pm
Parents, MKs call for probe into IDF refusal to heed surveillance troops’ warnings
A investigation is needed ‘to bring the truth to light because nothing else can give us all rest,’ Eyal Eshel, whose daughter Sgt. Roni Eshel was killed on Oct. 7, tells lawmakers
By Sam Sokol
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks with soldiers near the Gaza border, October 19, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 8, 2024, 11:49 pm
Gallant says comments on war phases not meant for ‘some woman’ from south, drawing ire
Defense minister tells Likud lawmakers terminology used in Wall Street Journal interview on downshifting offensive not meant for lay females from ‘Sderot or Ofakim’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: View of the inside of a Dan bus in Tel Aviv on February 22, 2022. (Avshalom sassoni/Flash90)
September 1, 2023, 10:26 pm
In latest case of alleged harassment, woman says bus driver told her ‘You’re naked’
22-year-old says Dan driver repeated his comments twice when she boarded with a sleeveless shirt; company says it’s investigating complaint
By ToI Staff
Teenage girls on a bus from Ashdod to Safed who say they were asked by the driver to go to the back of the bus, cover up their summer outfits and put on blankets so as not to offend Haredi passengers on August 13, 2023. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 21, 2023, 12:10 am
Bus companies face 3 lawsuits over series of discriminatory incidents against women
Egged, Electra-Afikim and Nateev Express are each being sued after drivers allegedly harassed or discriminated against female passengers
By ToI Staff
Opposition leader Yair Lapid (left) and Yesh Atid MK Meirav Cohen at an emergency meeting following recent cases of gender inequality in public spaces, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 16, 2023, 7:57 pm
Lapid says PM must fire ministers who attack IDF, touts bills on gender discrimination
Opposition chief promotes legislative package after cases of sexism on buses, says they’ll seek to tackle sexual harassment, inequality in top jobs and pay gap
By Michael Horovitz
Don Lemon attends the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Awards Gala at the New York Hilton Midtown, December 6, 2022, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
April 25, 2023, 9:37 am
CNN host Don Lemon parts ways with US network after sexist Haley comments
Morning show host says he’s been sacked after 17 years following divisive run over past few months; presidential candidate welcomes development: ‘A great day for women everywhere’
By David Bauder
Former head of Department of Homeland Security disinformation board Nina Jankowicz, May 19, 2022 (Screen grab/CBS)
May 20, 2022, 2:53 pm
Crush of sexist, antisemitic abuse driving women from high-profile positions
Resignation of head of new US disinformation board highlights issue; far-right extremist called Nina Jankowicz a ‘nasty … Jew,’ on his podcast; she is not Jewish
By AMANDA SEITZ
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner watches as the leader of the British Labour Party Keir Starmer makes his keynote speech at the annual party conference in Brighton, England, September 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
April 25, 2022, 1:14 pm
UK MPs slam ‘Basic Instinct’ slur against deputy Labour leader
After anonymous Conservatives claim Angela Rayner crosses and uncrosses her legs to distract PM, she pans ‘perverted smears’; Labour leader says sexism at ‘disgraceful new low’
By Agencies
Idit Silman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
April 25, 2022, 11:25 am
Silman said to accuse Bennett of portraying her as ‘a weak and stressed woman’
Former whip reportedly says PM trying to diminish the role ideology played in her decision to leave coalition
By ToI Staff
Jake Cohen attends SAVEUR Holiday Social at Astor Center, Dec. 13, 2014 in New York City. (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for SAVEUR via JTA)
January 7, 2022, 6:07 pm
Jewish food influencer Jake Cohen named in discrimination lawsuit
Author is accused of racism and sexism, treating Feedfeed’s social media staff as maids, shouting at them and making offensive comments
By Ben Sales
Russian President Vladimir Putin walks past CNBC's anchor Hadley Gamble during the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week in Moscow, Russia, October 13, 2021. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP)
October 17, 2021, 3:22 pm
Putin responds to US reporter with sexist remark
During interview with CNBC’s Hadley Gamble, Russian president says she is a ‘beautiful woman, pretty,’ asks her if his explanations are ‘so hard to follow’
By ToI Staff and AP
German Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (public domain)
July 16, 2021, 4:34 am
Impact of mathematician who overcame Nazis, sexism still felt 100 years later
Colleague compared Emmy Noether’s premature 1935 death to ‘echo of a thunderclap’ but her contributions to the field through her paper on ring theory continue to reverberate
By Tamar Lichter Blanks
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