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Facebook accused of discrimination with job ad targeting

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 19 05:05 PM

The complaint alleges that job ads on Facebook targeted only male users Read more »

House OKs bill prohibiting work discrimination vs women

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 04 07:08 PM

Voting 197-0-0, lawmakers passed House Billi 6769 or the “Expanding the Prohibition of Discriminatory Acts against Women on Account of Sex.”  Read more »

OPINION: Sick

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Sep 03 10:21 PM

President Duterte was in his element again – spewing expletives, spreading lies, concocting fake news -when he was in Cebu Thursday last week for Mandaue City’s 49th Charter Day celebration. Read more »

20-day paternity leave, same-sex partner benefits offered at Unilever

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 28 04:22 PM

Unilever said Tuesday it would offer a 20-day paid leave for fathers, healthcare benefits for same-sex partners and paid absences for adoptive parents in response to a diverse workforce. Read more »

Pushing against closed doors: LGBT activists do battle over toilets

Sonia Elks, Reuters
Posted at Aug 23 03:32 PM

Access to toilets has split opinion most sharply. Read more »

Book about Filipino women taken offline in Korea

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 20 05:07 PM

MANILA - A book about Filipina women written by a Korean man has been removed from online book retailers after complaints that it is "obscene and racist." Read more »

PCOO to officials, employees: Behave in social media

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 16 11:37 AM

MANILA - The Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) has issued a memorandum reminding its officials and employees to be mindful of their posts on social media. Read more »

Troy Montero, Aubrey Miles reveal gender of new baby

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 16 01:30 AM

Celebrity couple Aubrey Miles and Troy Montero are having a baby girl. Read more »

Nationwide probe after Tokyo med school excludes women

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 10 05:37 PM

Japan Friday launched an unprecedented probe into gender discrimination at all the nation's medical universities after a Tokyo medical school admitted altering the entrance test results of female applicants to exclude them.   Read more »

China's new online cosmetics stars: men

Pak Yiu and Danni Zhu, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 10 03:28 PM

Online beauty stars form an enormous industry in China, with internet celebrities known as "wang hong," or online stars, blurring the line between entertainment and e-commerce. Read more »

Pambabastos sa kababaihan, mga LGBT, may parusa sa ilalim ng panukala

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 04 05:11 PM

Matagal nang problema para sa marami ang catcalling o isang anyo ng pambabastos na madalas nangyayari sa mga kalsada. Read more »

Tokyo med school altered test scores to keep women out: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 02 11:38 AM

TOKYO - A Tokyo medical school for years altered the admission test results of female applicants to keep the number of women in the student body low, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday. Read more »

WATCH: The moment Lara, Marco revealed 2nd baby's gender

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 30 07:40 PM

Celebrity couple Lara Quigaman and Marco Alcaraz were surrounded by family and friends as they revealed Sunday the gender of their second baby. Read more »

Is it a boy or a girl? How Sitti found out the gender of her first baby

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 18 06:01 PM

It took a couple of tries to bust open a palayok with a bat and reveal the gender of their first child together.    Read more »

Puerto Rico allowing transgender people to fix birth certificates

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 17 06:38 PM

Transgender people in Puerto Rico can now modify their birth certificates to match their gender identity after activists won a lawsuit against the US territory's governor. Read more »

Through the lens: Storytelling Pattani's struggle with dress

Karim Raslan -- Ceritalah ASEAN
Posted at Jul 16 06:58 PM

In a world where many Muslim women of various nationalities, languages and colours are facing repression in one form or another, finding a common language in art is often an imperative if one is to stay sane, much less overcome violence and tragedy. Read more »

LOOKING BACK: Duterte's 2017 SONA and what happened after

ABS-CBN Social Media Team
Updated as of Jul 16 03:54 PM

Here is a look-back at issues mentioned by Duterte in his 2017 SONA, and how things have changed since then. Read more »

Portugal parliament approves new gender change law

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 13 06:51 AM

The Portuguese parliament on Thursday approved a law that will allow citizens to change their gender and name from the age of 16 without a medical report showing "identity disruption." Read more »

PH among gender-equal countries in Southeast Asia: JobStreet

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 12 03:47 AM

The Philippines is among the best performing Southeast Asian countries in promoting gender equality in the workplace, according to recruitment website Jobstreet.com. Read more »

Saudi Arabia among most dangerous countries for women despite drive for change - poll

Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Updated as of Jun 26 10:09 AM

As Saudi women take the driving seat in a landmark legal change, a survey of global experts released on Tuesday has found they live in the world's fifth most dangerous country for women, their lives tightly controlled by male relatives.  Read more »