The killing of women and girls is such a big problem in Latin America that a number of countries have incorporated femicide into their penal code. A study from Buenos Aires looks at how the killers account for their crimes.

In a sense, men are more oriented towards gender equality than women when it comes to sharing parental leave, says Ragni Hege Kitterød.

According to historians, the Norwegian authorities reacted differently to the AIDS epidemic than other Western countries.

When it comes to snowboarding, women are in the minority of top athletes, coaches, referees and in the boardroom. New research reveals how invisible structures help maintain an unequal gender balance in the sport.

Research shows that misogynist online communities have increased in numbers intensity and become more extreme in the past decade. 

The regulations don't readily allow individuals to impulsively change their legal gender, a legal experts explains.

At the same time, life on the whaling vessels was both boring and extremely dangerous, according to one researcher.

The competition on the popular site was fierce. In the beginning, the women made a decent profit from their content, but then the income dwindled, writes Astrid Rokstad in the masters blog.

A less invasive form of circumcision is becoming more common among Norwegian-Somalis, but the women have very different ideas of what it entails.