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Zimbabwe’s Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry (centre) waves to crowds gathered to welcome her on her arrival back home at the Robert Mugabe International Airport after her recent appointment as International Olympic Committee president, on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Mainland China

Editorial | Kirsty Coventry must rise to Olympic challenge after stunning win

The first woman to head the Games’ top international body has sensitive issues to tackle before the next events in Italy and the US.

South Korea

South Korean mayor sparks outrage by blaming female workers for wildfire woes

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Icons and Influencers

Who is Ada Gallagher, the transgender teen setting school track records?

Art

Painting attributed to a male artist for years was woman’s work

Lavinia Fontana, a leading woman painter of the Italian Renaissance, now credited with work a museum in Douai, France, believed was Flemish.

Detail from Portrait of a Gentleman, his Daughter and a Servant by Lavinia Fontana. Photo: AFP
IOC

Profile | New IOC president Kirsty Coventry faces complex geopolitics and gender minefield

China offers its support to first woman to lead the Olympic Movement, but she will arrive to a challenging in-tray.

Nordic nations

Denmark issues travel warning for transgender people going to US

Germany has also updated its travel advisory after several of its citizens were detained at the US border.

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Trending in China

Chinese couple have 9 daughters, all named ‘di’, hoping for a son

Many Chinese couples believe son can support them in old age, viewing daughter as akin to water that has been poured out when they marry.

A Chinese couple, longing for a son, welcomed nine daughters over 20 years, all named with the character “di”, meaning “brother”, reflecting traditional beliefs in son preference in China. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Food and Drinks

Why Germany’s Wine Queen could be dethroned by a man for the first time

Since 1949, only women have been allowed to compete in an annual contest that crowns ambassadors for Germany’s wine industry. Not any more.

India

Video | India’s female brewers

Fashion

No miniskirts, no hijab – ex-Soviet republic polices women’s fashion

Having banned ‘foreign clothes’, Tajikistan’s president is set to issue ‘scientific’ advice on what women should wear. Some are pushing back.

Tajik fashion designer Khurshed Sattorov presents traditional garb at his workshop. Women in Tajikistan are being advised by the government to wear more “Tajik-style” clothing. Photo: AFP
Ukraine

An all-female King Lear? In wartime Ukraine actresses fill men’s roles

A regional theatre adapts to the realities of war, with actresses taking male roles as actors are called up to front lines of Russia war.

An actress performs a male role on the stage at the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theatre. Photo: AP
Crime

UK man who killed 3 women gets life in prison, Andrew Tate cited as influence

Prosecutors say Kyle Clifford’s attack on his ex-girlfriend and her family was fuelled by influencer Andrew Tate’s ‘violent misogyny’.

Indonesia

‘Shocking’ jail sentence given to Indonesian transgender woman over Jesus remark

The case highlights concerns about Indonesia’s online hate speech law, which critics say is too vague and open to misuse.

Malaysia

Malaysian mums secure automatic citizenship for overseas-born children

The settlement, however, excludes adult children, leaving many without citizenship rights.

Plaintiffs in a case challenging a law preventing Malaysian women passing their citizenship on to overseas-born children outside the Kuala Lumpur High Court. Photo: AFP/Family Frontiers
Hong Kong

Engineer by training, brewer by profession – and she’s breaking barriers

Anushka Purohit founded food upcycling craft beer brand Breer at just 18 – it’s been a long road of breaking ageist and sexist stereotypes.

Breer co-founder Anushka Purohit has battled gender stereotypes throughout her career. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Old Hong Kong

Then & Now | How Hong Kong led the way for women priests in the 1970s

Hong Kong was decades ahead of Britain when it came to the ordination of women priests, even though that might seem unlikely today.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: 5 women leaders in STEM and a trip to Luang Prabang

We celebrate International Women’s Day this week with brilliant women innovating in science, an artist who uses AI in her work, and a beer brewer who started her own company at age 18.

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Hong Kong society

Art therapy helps Hong Kong women address ‘hidden’ family caregiving stressors

Charity Zonta International marks International Women’s Day affirming support for groups helping those suffering from family stress, violence.

Florence Lam is the primary caregiver for her elderly parents who suffer from dementia. Photo: Edmond So
Women and gender

Letters | Let’s build a Hong Kong where every woman has a chance to succeed

Readers discuss what Hong Kong must do on the road to gender equality, the barriers to fitness, and the disbanding of an NGO.

Style Edit

Style Edit: Cartier’s Women’s Pavilion for Expo 2025 in Osaka

The pavilion features art by Naomi Kawase, Mélanie Laurent, Hiro Chiba and Mariko Mori, while Toshiya Ogino did the landscaping and Chitose Abe designed the attendants’ uniforms.

Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Having more women on boards makes business sense. Hong Kong gets it

In this increasingly complex world, it is vital for businesses to embrace gender diversity, and diversity more broadly, for long-term success.

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Bonnie Chan (third from right), then co-chief operating officer of HKEX, and other women business leaders attend an event for a gender equality campaign on March 8, 2023. Photo: May Tse
South Korea

Young South Korean men and women deeply divided on politics, survey shows

The poll found that men and women in their 20s had the largest political ideology gap of any age group.

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People stage a rally supporting feminism in Seoul, South Korea, on February 12, 2022. Photo: AP
Japan

Urgent plea for women’s toilets at Japan’s Osaka Expo building site

An online user claiming to be a worker bursts into tirade about lack of toilets at world-class expo site.

Wealth management

Women in Hong Kong face huge retirement income shortfall, Fidelity study shows

Women expect an average monthly expense of HK$24,235 (US$3,120) after retirement but face an income-gap, study shows.

Human rights in China

Political adviser urges easier divorce despite Beijing’s push for family values

CPPCC member Jiang Shengnan says 30-day suspension may spark unnecessary disputes and could be used to transfer assets or fabricate debts.

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Despite authorities’ measures to boost the marriage rate, China’s population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, as marriages plunged a record 20 per cent. Photo: AFP
Britain

UK court convicts Chinese PhD student of drugging, raping 10 women

Zou Zhenhao raped three of the women in London and seven in China, and police warn there could be over 50 other victims.

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Zou Zhenhao, who was found guilty by a London court of drugging and raping 10 women in Britain and China. Photo: Metropolitan Police via Reuters
Australia

Australia’s gender pay gap narrows but women still paid 18.6% less

Finance, mining and construction industries showed the biggest differences, a government report found.

United States

Andrew Tate and brother under criminal investigation in Florida

The influencer siblings have just returned to the US from Romania, where they faced rape and human trafficking charges.

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