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Justice Sonia Sotomayor cited sexism as the reason for a Supreme Court rule change during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

BERLIN (AP) – A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany attacked and severely injured a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday.

An editorial cartoonist for the Pensacola News Journal promoted a sexist cartoon of Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), on Wednesday and has a history of questionable work, despite the parent company’s self-proclaimed commitment to a culture of inclusion.

A senior employee at Apple has alleged that she was placed on indefinite leave after tweeting allegations about a culture of sexism at the company. She alleges that she was given feedback for being “too hard on the white man” in a diversity training, and also claims her managers engaged in “tone policing.”

Police in northern India have arrested at least four members of the same family for allegedly beating their relative, a 17-year-old girl, to death last week for wearing jeans, the Quint, an Indian news site, reported on Thursday.

A Maine Democrat is facing a call for her resignation after posting a comment on Facebook that specifically tore into “straight white men.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher slammed the “progressophobia” on the left on issues of race, gender, and sexuality and said that the refusal to acknowledge progress is harmful because “progress, and hope that we can

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed a bill into law Tuesday that bans the teaching of the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT), including “assigning fault, blame, or bias to a race or sex, or to members of a race or sex because of their race or sex.”

A teenage birdwatching influencer has taken aim at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) for a poster depicting female members of bird species as smaller than males.

British gymnasts are pushing back against what they call “outdated and sexist” leotard guidance that influences what they wear during competition.

A NATO report has revealed that Finland’s female-led government has received a torrent of sexist and misogynistic comments on social media. 

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) claimed in a Monday interview that the state capitol is rife with “sexism,” Bridge magazine reported.

Boys at an Australian school were made to “stand up and apologise to every girl for rape [and] sexual assault” at an assembly, according to pupils.

Former MTV news correspondent SuChin Pak has accused the network of being a hotbed of racism, saying that a “white male executive” once used a racial slur about her in the workplace.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — NCAA basketball administrators apologized to the women’s basketball players and coaches after inequities between the men’s and women’s tournament went viral on social media and vowed to do better.

The NCAA Tournament caught criticism for what some called a disparity in how it furnished its men’s and women’s workout/weight rooms.

A little over a month after the head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee resigned over sexist remarks, the creative director for the event announced he would resign after suggesting a plus-sized female comedian should perform at the Games as a character he dubbed the “Olympig.”

A Scottish National Party (SNP) frontbencher has suggested that subjecting all men in a given area to a 6 p.m. curfew if a woman is killed should be an option under discussion in the wake of Sarah Everard’s apparent murder.

Welsh Labour’s Mark Drakeford has become the latest leftist politician to suggest that he would consider imposing a 6 pm curfew for all men, following the death of London woman Sarah Everard.

Burger King UK deliberately stirred controversy by tweeting that “Women belong in the kitchen” — before pulling a woke bait-and-switch.

A recent report alleges that multiple Google employees that approached the company with complaints of racism and sexism were urged to take medical leave and focus on their mental health.

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the ruling conservative party, announced on Thursday that it would consider allowing women to attend top-level party meetings, but not allow them to talk.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games chief Yoshiro Mori is expected to resign Thursday after he sparked equal measures of outrage and blushes in Japan by claiming women talk too much in meetings.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games chief was drawn into a sexism row Wednesday after it was reported he said women made meetings drag on for too long because they “have difficulty” speaking concisely.

CBS has hired the law firm Proskauer Rose to investigate allegations of racism, sexism, and abusive workplace behavior at its CBS TV stations, according to multiple reports.

Actress Emma Thompson called out Hollywood’s casting sexism, stating that once a woman passes the age of 50, she becomes “invisible.”

The former first lady reacted to a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Saturday criticizing “Dr.” Jill Biden for using the title, even though she is not a medical doctor.

The Chicago Teachers Union deleted its tweet that stated, “The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that the margins in the 2020 presidential race rebut the notion that 2016 Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost due to sexism. Maher said, “Again,

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” vice presidential debate Moderator Susan Page stated that she thought Vice President Mike Pence’s interruptions of her during the debate were “a political tactic, and not a gender statement” and

USA Today’s Susan Page, who moderated Wednesday’s vice presidential debate, did not unequivocally dismiss the leftist claims that Vice President Mike Pence acted in a sexist manner during the debate, stating that she did not know if he would have acted the same way with a male moderator.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continued questioning the result of the 2016 election, voicing her concerns in an interview with the Atlantic published on Friday.

NBC Sports analyst Mike Milbury announced he is “stepping away” from the booth fafter his widely condemned comment about women.

DOE said Thursday that the National Nuclear Security Administration and the agency’s IG will look into the alleged practice of race classes.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) responded to a letter warning members of the media about their coverage of a female vice presidential nominee by stating that concerns about media coverage

Thousands of women are trapped in “marital captivity” in the United Kingdom as the government has refused to make the registration of sharia marriages mandatory out of fear of appearing “Islamophobic”, a report has found.