England: 1, Roman Catholic Church: 0

In a precedent-setting decision yesterday, the London High Court ruled that the U.K.’s Roman Catholic Church can be held liable for the sexual misconduct of its priests. The ruling came in the ...Read More

Gender Equality in the Monarchy: First Born Takes the Throne

At their summit in Perth, Australia, the leaders of the 16 Commonwealth countries unanimously agreed to change throne succession rules. In the future, sons and daughters of the British monarch will ...Read More

Do Italian Sex Scandals Lower Women’s Legitimate Job Chances?

When Teresa “Terry” De Nicolò, a 39-year-old escort and regular visitor of Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was interviewed by a public television program last June, she ...Read More

Pope Makes Less-Than-Triumphant Return Home

Pope Benedict XVI is in his native Germany for a long weekend, but it’s not going to be a party. Many German Catholics have turned their backs on the ancient institution and parted ways–180,000 ...Read More

“Rotis not Riots” Offers England Food for Thought

In the vacuum of discussions connecting women to this month’s ferocious riots in England, a group called “Rotis not Riots” launched on Facebook this week “to make sense of ...Read More

Female Decision-Makers Set to Lose Out in Britain

The U.S. isn’t the only country in which harsh deficit-cutting measures have been proposed. Right now, Britain’s coalition government is laying out plans for an ambitious public services reform ...Read More

Echoes of Online Misogyny in Norway Murderer’s Manifesto

We all know that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed dozens of people in attacks last Friday, was motivated by a toxic mélange of far-right ideology largely revolving around his ...Read More

British Judges Free Child Rapists, Say 12-Year-Old Girls “Wanted” Sex

In March, six British soccer players confessed to gang-raping two 12-year-old girls and were sentenced to two years behind bars. But last week, an Appeal Court overturned the sentence, and all of ...Read More

Feminists: Bring Out Your Beards!

As scores of people lined the streets of Paris yesterday in celebration of Bastille Day, they may have noticed something slightly odd about the statues of women around the city: Many of them–even ...Read More

A Russian Front in the Abortion Wars

In June, The New York Times’ Sophia Kishkovsky published a piece about alarming news that’s been buzzing in reproductive rights circles for the last couple of weeks–Russia has embraced its very ...Read More

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