A dozen schools in southern India have decided to switch to mixed school uniforms.

No more pleated skirts for girls and pants for boys.

Now everyone is in pants.

What might pass for a detail has, in fact, a real effect on the behavior of children.

Girls invest more in the playground, dare to climb and move around more easily.

In middle school and high school, teenage girls also have more self-confidence.

The boys also realize that equality is still far from being achieved.

Abortions and Forced Sterilizations on Indigenous Women in Quebec

Journalist Ingrid Therwath reviews the articles that caught the attention of our partner Courrier International.

In Quebec, a university report reports more than 20 Indigenous women who underwent forced abortions and sterilizations between 1980 and 2019. The phenomenon is in fact much larger and concerns many First Nations women.

The latter have been victims of irreversible procedures which are the fruit of a paternalistic health system, denounce the associations which represent these women, and the legacy of reminiscences of colonialism.

In Egypt, women are not required to wear the veil.

In 2015, 90% of them still wore it, but this trend is decreasing.

However, removing the veil does not free them from external dictates.

If they decide to go out bareheaded, society expects certain behaviors from them: less covering clothes, fashionable hairstyles, more make-up...

In the United States, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra now has more female musicians (45) than male musicians (44).

This was possible thanks to a recruitment method that is particularly effective against discrimination: the screen technique.

The auditions are blind, so the jury does not know the gender of the person performing.

The fights of Simone Veil adapted into a play

Simone Veil was a woman of convictions.

In her role as magistrate or in government, she fought for the duty of memory, Europe, women's rights and, of course, for the legalization of abortion.

Her extraordinary journey is told by the actress Cristiana Reali, who slipped into the skin of the former minister in the play "Les combats d'une effrontée".

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