Women face inequality in the workplace the world over. That is a fact. We can see this clearly when it comes to pay and promotions. In many, many countries women earn less than men for doing the same job. Conservatively minded men continue to argue that a woman’s place is at home with the children. But women are playing a more and more important role in the workforce everywhere.

Kurdish female fighters are the “Women of the week” in Women Talk Online. Female fighters play an important role in the Kurdish “Peshmerga” army, which is fighting tooth and nail to keep Islamic State militants at bay in Iraq and Syria.

A 36-year-old Swede has become the world’s first woman to give birth after receiving a womb transplant. Doctors at the University of Gothenburg say the birth, which happened last month, is proof that the last barrier to female infertility has been broken down.

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A month after flood waters battered the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, the magnitude of the tragedy is slowly unfolding. Bigger worries of death and disease still haunt the area in the aftermath of the worst crisis to have hit the region in the last six decades. Murali Krishnan visited the inundated areas in India-administered Kashmir and brought back some pictures and stories of brave women.

Please share…Jhanvi missing since 29 Sep 2014 from India Gate…#Jhanvi #bringBackJhanvi pic.twitter.com/Cu7AFaJLSV

— Richa Khurana (@richa_khurana) October 4, 2014

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon on September 28 in New Delhi, when little Jhanvi went missing from India Gate, a popular meeting place in central Delhi. The initial nightmare eventually gave way to a massive social media campaign that helped find the toddler nearly a week later.

Since the December 16 gang rape incident in Delhi, the attention that sexual violence has received from the Indian public and authorities has been a welcome change. However, such recognition should not come at the cost of ignoring other forms of violence that may seem to be less scandalous and, in fact, “normal.” The recent UNICEF report on violence against children does precisely this. It blows the lid off a camouflaged and under-discussed aspect of the issue: “hidden” violence.

Female feticide, child marriage, rape – these words have made headlines in India in recent months. In response to the crisis about the way women are treated, a bizarre guideline issued by the police in Kolkata has poured more fuel on the fire, says DW’s Debarati Guha.