The Spanish newspaper El País has appointed Soledad Gallego-Díaz as its first female editor in its 42-year history. This comes right after Spain’s government saw a record number of women chosen to serve in the new cabinet. First female editor in paper’s 42-year history 67-year-old Soledad Gallego-Díaz joined the paper shortly after its founding in […]

24-year-old Manmeet Kaur has become Pakistan’s first Sikh news reporter, thus making history. Kaur, a resident of Peshawar, chose to be a journalist in a society which still promotes a conservative and restricted mindset towards women at work “There are several social and cultural issues and being a journalist I will be able to bring them forth, […]

According to a research published in the Lancet Global Health, neglect due to gender discrimination kills 239,000 girls under the age of five in India each year, reported The Guardian. Findings from the Study The figure, amounting to 2.4 million deaths a decade, does not include pre-natal mortality rates. “Gender-based discrimination towards girls doesn’t simply prevent them […]

Rachel Bali is the 23 year old founder of a social start-up, KrantiKālī, that aims to bring about a gender revolution in India, no less. Bali is passionate about gender equity, making the gender discourse in India less elitist, and talks to SheThePeople.TV about the group’s first project on Instagram, ‘The Liminal Lens’, and why talking about […]