Turns out video games are pretty close t0 ye olde Disney movies, where a female character often needs to be saved by a man. But in a new game called The Last of Us, lead female character Ellie is saving herself. User interface designer Alexandria Neonakis, who works for Naughty Dog, the company that created The Last of … » 12/31/13 5:00pm 12/31/13 5:00pm

Women can drive. I mean, of course women can drive. Anyone with the required faculties can drive, and the only possible reason a government can have for divesting women of the basic human right Henry Ford gave people to own a Model T and idle away hours of their lives in rush hour traffic is to limit their means of… » 4/16/13 9:30am 4/16/13 9:30am

As you've watched the Chinese Communist Party leadership age over the last two decades, you've probably kept yourself awake at night fretting about who will produce the next generation of Communist propaganda. Well? Will the Politburo of tomorrow be full of more stodgy and corrupt old dudes, or, by some unforeseen… » 3/19/13 6:40pm 3/19/13 6:40pm

Sorry for the buzzkill, but we can't honor International Women's Day without thinking about how fucking far we still have to go in practically every department. (Related: this exists.) » 3/08/13 6:10pm 3/08/13 6:10pm

Hillary Clinton is on her way out the door (sob), but she's leaving with a bang by reminding the Council on Foreign Relations how crucial women's rights are: » 2/01/13 3:20pm 2/01/13 3:20pm

A funny — and by funny, we of course mean so absolutely terrifying that the only reaction is to hold yourself and laugh like a committed Batman villain — thing happened last week in Saudi Arabia. Saudi women's male guardians began receiving helpful text messages informing them when the women under their charge leave… » 11/23/12 3:45pm 11/23/12 3:45pm

The European Parliament has delayed a hearing on a nominee to one of the overwrought European Central Bank's top posts in an effort to underscore the fact that there's a glaring absence of female leadership when it comes to the eurozone's monetary authority. According to the AP, Yves Mersch, the head of Luxemborg's… » 9/12/12 10:30am 9/12/12 10:30am

The U.K.'s Royal Veterinary College has decided that, since not enough white men are enrolling in its program, it ought to recruit them more aggressively. To that end, the college has included white men among the underrepresented minority groups that it targets in publicity materials, which have been specially crafted… » 8/19/12 2:00pm 8/19/12 2:00pm

Saudi Arabia is so committed to its policy of segregating the genders that it is going to build an entire city just for women to work in all by themselves. The women-only industrial city, to be built within the Eastern Province city of Hofuf, is just the first of what could be many zones that the Gulf kingdom aims to… » 8/13/12 10:10am 8/13/12 10:10am

In case you haven't heard yet because you're one of those New York City tunnel dwellers or you're exclusively a Winter Olympics person, the U.S. women's teams at this summer's games have cleaned up, accounting for 56 percent of all Team USA's medals, and 66 percent of its golds. Their success is being touted as a big… » 8/12/12 3:30pm 8/12/12 3:30pm

Even though women may be joining big, mahogany-redolent law firms with less zeal than in the not-so-distant past, those already working at such law firms are being promoted to equity partnerships at the about the speed at which a spoonful of old honey travels from the ass of a little plastic bear to its nose. Still,… » 7/24/12 10:25am 7/24/12 10:25am

Women-focused tech conferences are nothing new, but Google's recent "Women Techmakers" panel was noteworthy because it wasn't hosted by a standalone advocacy group — it took place as part of Google's gigantic, currently ongoing I/O conference. During the discussion, top Google execs like VPs Susan Wojcicki and Megan… » 6/28/12 10:30am 6/28/12 10:30am