Impact
Chinese director Chloe Zhao made history at the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday Apr. 25, becoming the first woman of color and the first Chinese woman to win the Oscar for Best Director.
Activism
Chloé Lopes Gomes, the first black ballerina at Germany’s leading ballet company, who spoke out about the racism she experienced within the company has won €14,000 ($19,000) in compensation and a contract renewal.
Activism
Sarah Voss, a gymnast from Germany, defied convention and competed in a full bodysuit instead of a leotard to take a stand against sexualization in gymnastics.
Cute
Meet Nancy Van Der Stracten, a 75-year-old painter and grandmother of eight from Belgium who now lives in Turkey.
Impact
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has selected its next two astronauts for its future space missions, including its first Arab woman astronaut.
Impact
Vjosa Osmani, a 38-year-old lawyer, has been elected as Kosovo’s president by the parliament, becoming the country’s second woman president.
Cute
Meet Lyubov Morekhodova, the 79-year-old Russian ice-skating granny.
Video
The winner of Mrs Sri Lanka 2020, Pushpika De Silva, had her crown forcibly removed by a former winner who thought she was divorced.
Women
A man in Japan has been fined 9,000 yen (US$80) for online abuse directed at Hana Kimura, a former cast member of the Netflix reality show “Terrace House” who killed herself last year.
Impact
The Swiss army will start issuing women’s underwear to its women recruits in an effort to increase women recruits.
Activism
Women in Turkey held a mass protest on Saturday Mar. 27 against the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to withdraw the country from an international treaty preventing violence against women.
Women
France’s highest court has ruled a group of firefighters accused of raping a girl from when she was 13 to 15 years old will not be charged with rape but with sexual assault, which carries a lighter sentence than rape.