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STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 01, 2020 • 9 min read

Gender in Singapore Breaking up the boys’ club

By Amanda Oon • Apr 01, 2020
Finance has long been a boys' club, with Singapore no different. Today, FinTech offers more women a way in, but there remains a lack of diversity at its highest levels. Here, two of Singapore's most successful female financial figures offer their reflections on the sector

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 12, 2020 • 11 min read

Tradition Crumbling walls

By Words by Marielle Lucenio, photos by Leo Solinap • Mar 12, 2020
With their past hardly accounted for in history, the future of the once-hidden traditional Binukot women remains challenged in the face of resistance and progressivism in the Philippines

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 11, 2020 • 12 min read

Labour rights Up in arms

By Sabina Lawreniuk • Mar 11, 2020
Cambodia has bid a (partial) farewell to Everything But Arms — but what is next for the union women left fighting on the front line of the fallout?

STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 17, 2020 • 6 min read

Women in Indonesia Dare Devi: Riding Satan’s barrel

By Agoes Rudianto • Jan 17, 2020
Each night, 20-year-old stunt-rider Devi Apriliyani rides "Satan's Barrel" as her husband and daughter look on. An already controversial act in socially conservative Indonesia, one fact complicates matters further – she is pregnant

Jan 03, 2020 • 13 min read
Sexism in the Philippines

In the line of fire

President Rodrigo Duterte is known for his vitriolic attacks on women and the press, with prominent media outlet Rappler and its female-led editorial team a particular target of his ire. Southeast Asia Globe visited the Rappler office in Manila to hear first hand from three female team members what life is like working in Duterte's Philippines
By Aie Balagtas See • Jan 03, 2020

Jun 06, 2019 • 14 min read
Sexual abuse

Under the world’s mirror

Facing discrimination for gender, disability and poverty, Cambodia’s women and girls with disabilities are among the most vulnerable to sexual abuse and violence
By Thomas Brent and Kong Meta • Jun 06, 2019

Mar 08, 2019 • 14 min read
Women's rights

A cut, unseen

Despite Singapore’s reputation as a modern hub of progress and prosperity, female genital mutilation and cutting remains widespread among the city-state’s Malay Muslim community
By Robin Spiess • Mar 08, 2019

Nov 14, 2018 • 7 min read
Dia.Lo.Gue

The woman creating space for Jakarta’s art scene to thrive

Dismayed by a lack of government-funded cultural centres in Indonesia’s capital, Engel Tanzil decided to create her own public space for the arts. Seven years on, Dia.Lo.Gue art space has blown up – and even created an artistic economy of its own
By Janelle Retka • Nov 14, 2018

Aug 29, 2018 • 3 min read
Indonesia

Questionable virginity tests for female police and military recruits

The practice of attempting to verify the virginity – and ostensibly the morality – of female police and military recruits has been in place in Indonesia since as early as 1965. Human Rights Watch recently called for an end to it, citing a lack of women personnel for United Nations peacekeeping missions. According to Jakarta Feminist Discussion Group founder Kate Walton, “one’s sexual status has no link to one’s morals”
By Tom O'Connell • Aug 29, 2018

Jul 24, 2018 • 8 min read
Whatever happened to

The Philippines’ reproductive health law?

Despite President Duterte’s signing of an executive order on reproductive health law in 2017, a new wealth of challenges has presented itself to officials and the six million Filipina women whose reproductive needs are still unmet
By Cristyn Lloyd • Jul 24, 2018