After months of delay, the Senate approved Loretta E. Lynch to be U.S. attorney general. Also this week, a report shows that heavily minority schools have large athletics gaps for female students.
Iran announced that women would be allowed to attend big sporting events. Also this week, Kansas has become the first state to ban a second-trimester abortion procedure.
New York lawmakers voted to pass a package of bills to strengthen protections for victims of human trafficking. Also this week, Brown University students silently marched across campus to protest the college’s handling of recent sexual assault allegations.
The percentage of female lawmakers worldwide has nearly doubled over the past two decades. Also this week, a report shows that violence against women around the world occurs “at alarmingly high levels.”
More women are making their appearance in the new Forbes list of the world’s billionaires. Also this week, in a new documentary on the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012, one of rapists blames the attack on his victim and her male companion.
Internet activists scored a landmark victory as the FCC approved a plan to govern broadband Internet like a public utility. Also this week, the U.S. Department of Education has found that the New York City Department of Education has violated Title IX.
The Malawian parliament has unanimously voted to outlaw child marriage. Also this week, a female university student in Turkey was murdered after reportedly resisting a sexual assault attempt.
A federal judge has ordered a county official in Mobile, Ala., to comply with an earlier ruling and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Also this week, a report details how female prisoners in New York State deal with substandard reproductive health care.
House Democrats have proposed the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act. Also this week, three separate abortion bills, two impacting minors, were proposed by the Republican majority in Missouri.
The White House has threatened to veto an abortion bill passed by the House of Representatives on Jan. 22. Also this week, the U.N. decried numerous executions of civilians in Iraq by the Islamic State group, warning that educated women appeared to be especially at risk.
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