The Guardian Women

Can promises on gender equality made in Australia help a 16-year-old Indian cigarette maker with no toilet?

Thursday briefing: What new evidence tells us about the reality of racial discrimination in maternity care

Kindness of strangers: I was so pregnant I couldn’t see my feet when a woman offered to tie my shoelace

‘Will they kill us too?’ Murder of leading feminist has chilling effect on Iraq’s activists

Myanmar military regime widens sanitary towel ban, claiming rebels use them for first aid

A sad indictment that the young seek tradwife life | Letters

Online abuse is a daily reality for women in public life | Letters

Aisling Bea review – glamourpuss meets accidental mum in a scatty show that revels in immaturity

Female athletes’ fertility is still a blind spot | Letter

The Guardian view on gen Z: young men hold startling views about women – inequality may be to blame | Editorial

Will UN plans to transform the way it works ‘throw equality under the bus’?

Jailed for losing a pregnancy: how progress on El Salvador’s harsh anti-abortion law is unravelling

‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes