Hundreds of dead newborn girls have been found dumped in garbage piles in Pakistan over the last year as cultural preference for boys drives more parents to murder babies

  Statistics 345 babies found in garbage in Karachi since January last year, charities reveal 99 per cent found to be girls amid a cultural preference for boys, report says In one horrifying case in, a four-day-old was found dead with her throat slit Hundreds of dead newborn girls have been found dumped in garbage …

LEGO is slipping a feminist message into its newest line of characters

Women aren’t entering fields of science and math in large numbers, so LEGO is encouraging them on the minifig scale. The trend of men dominating STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, math) has been omnipresent in the US, but not for any biological reason, many experts say. Most girls just aren’t pushed in that direction. Now the …

The nursery school of equality

STOCKHOLM — At an ocher-color preschool along a lane in Stockholm’s Old Town, the teachers avoid the pronouns “him” and “her,” instead calling their 115 toddlers simply “friends.” Masculine and feminine references are taboo, often replaced by the pronoun “hen,” an artificial and genderless word that most Swedes avoid but is popular in some gay …