Women fight back as South Korea tries to abolish its Gender Equality Ministry –

 

South Korea’s rapid transformation into one of the richest countries in the world, has left women trailing behind. They are paid on average a third less than men, giving South Korea the worst gender pay gap of any rich country in the world. Upon entering office, South Korea's new President Yoon Suk-yeol scrapped government gender quotas, declaring people would be hired on merit, not sex.

India's Women Warriors

In India, women fight to enter a sacred temple as part of a larger battle against discrimination within Hinduism.

Millions of pilgrims from across India flock to one of the country's most sacred Hindushrines every year.

But Sabarimala Temple has long been off-limits to almost half the world's population.

Women aged between 10 and 50 are considered impure by the hardline Hindu men who come to the temple to worship.

"Women cannot follow the rituals," says Aswani Dev, an ardent devotee. "A woman is an object that jeopardises the mind of a man."