In this week’s Behind the Headlines, exclusively for ToI Community members, a pioneering Jewish voice that wrestles with the values of Orthodoxy and feminism

Labor's Merav Michaeli ended the female party head drought and may lead a female-majority faction, but even as some slates put women in top spots, true equality remains a mirage

Frenchwoman Nathalie Becquart named one of two new undersecretaries to synod of bishops, body that studies major questions of doctrine

A new children's book shows how her upbringing and bit of good, old-fashioned chutzpah helped a 22-year-old woman change a country's destiny, and then keep mum about it for decades

With the Supreme Court tilted sharply to the right, the veteran activist says 'change will come through legislation'

A look at some of the late US Supreme Court justice's favorite tales to audiences

Women's groups hail the late Supreme Court justice as 'an icon, a pioneer, a hero and a legend,' vow 'to get to work to preserve the ideals she spent her life's work defending'

Contributors want women -- and men -- to know their struggles with same-sex attraction, lack of sex ed, and sexual assault are common, although willfully overlooked by community

Insistent that they aren't living together in Maoz Esther to promote gender equality, 6 long-skirted teens say settlement is simply a task in which all must take part

Noted actress sees league expansion as way of providing boys and girls with 'role models and and heroes that are women'