How many massacres is it going to take to change gun laws in the USA? Meet Dana Loesch. She’s the new female face of the NRA in a country with INSANE gun laws that sees it as an individual’s right to bear arms – even at the expense of innocent victims.

“In every one of the images of a woman with her veil on a stick men are there, turning, looking, and watching — with a hint of awe in their eyes. Men recording and snapping pictures of women standing on boxes and park benches. Men, online and off, applauding, with great pride, women who willingly defy national laws to demand civil liberties as equals. This is striking, and a radical difference from times past.” Check out Negar Mottaedeh's update on life under sharia law in Iran today.

They might be able to drive now, but the women of Saudi Arabia still have a long way to go until they are free. Read about Manal al-Sharif, who spearheaded the Women2Drive campaign, and her quest for women's citizenship and equal rights in her country. 

Kate Pankhurst, a descendant of the famously militant suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst who was instrumental in helping some women attain the vote 100 years ago, has inherited her ancestor’s spirited fight for equality, penning numerous books for children that redresses gender imbalance.

Hundreds of women will let their body hair grow this month, with all funds going towards fighting domestic violence against women. Get Hairy February is a month-long campaign against gendered violence.

It started with mini tomatoes, then mini cucumbers and now mini-caps are all the rage with kids and parents alike happily grabbing them off supermarket shelves. But how small can you go? An Israeli company is said to be developing a “drop tomato,” about the size of a blueberry. Go the mini-fruit revolution!

Lady Gaga uses it to manage chronic pain. Thousands of patients in more than 20 countries including Canada, Israel, the US and the Netherlands, use it therapeutically to manage a range of ailments. And so for many in Australia, legal use of medical cannabis can’t come quickly enough to our shores.

Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, fielded questions about plans for a family within just hours of being elected leader of New Zealand’s Labour Party in August. In October, Ardern became New Zealand’s youngest prime minister in more than a century. And on Friday, she announced that she would be taking on another role — that of a mother.

How krav maga changed me: one woman’s mind-body transformation and experience of the self-defence system that is inclusive of women.

My country has just taken a huge step forward in legally enforcing equal pay for men and women. When will the UK dare to follow suit?