Uber, Lyft face lawsuits from male drivers, claiming discrimination

Chase Dibenedetto — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:50:49 +0000

The plaintiffs claim new safety features for women violate civil rights protections.

Ride share giants Uber and Lyft are facing a handful of gender discrimination lawsuits, filed by a group of male drivers who claim that recent driver preference policies have negatively impacted their opportunities for rides and revenue.

In July, Uber announced gender-based preferences …

No, Apple didn't cut International Women's Day from its calendar

Anna Iovine — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:24:11 +0000

A viral Instagram post stated that Apple has removed the holiday, but that's not quite right.

This week, a viral Instagram post stated that Apple cut International Women's Day (March 8) from its calendar — but that's not quite right.

Bellesa, a sex toy brand, posted on March 4, "Apple quietly removed International Women's Day from the calendar. That's weird." The carousel …

Looking in the mirror: How these 5 female-led films dissect global issues women face today

Meera Navlakha — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:49:53 +0000

Five films by five directors, probing subjects like period poverty, child marriage, and HIV self-stigma.

"For years, more than half of us have been excluded, unfavored, and bound by the fate of of our genders," a voice echoes in the opening seconds of In Bloom, a new film anthology released in celebration of Women's History Month. Various vignettes then appear …

Period care brands are reimbursing your tampon taxes. Here's how to cash in.

Chase Dibenedetto — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:01:00 +0000

Get your money back within 24 hours via Venmo or PayPal.

If you're still stuck paying sales tax on menstruation products — which, reminder, are essential health purchases — it's time you got your money back.

Beginning on Oct. 11, individuals can be reimbursed for sales taxes on any purchase of August, Cora,

The digital gender divide is about more than access, according to new Girl Effect report

Chase Dibenedetto — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:00:01 +0000

New Girls & Mobile report shows social barriers are still impeding equity.

Despite what may feel like an endless wave of technological advancements, from AR to AI, women and adolescents around the world still face a global digital divide. For young girls especially, the access problem runs much deeper than hardware or cost, as a new global report …

Men need to talk about sex differently. Here's how.

Mashable SEA — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:15:32 +0000

Make female orgasms part of locker room talk.

Sitting at the bar after a comedy open mic, a couple of male comics asked me about sex parties. A joke I’d tried on stage about one experience had sparked their curiosities. After the usual questions about participation requirements, gender ratios, and voyeurism etiquette, one guy asked me how consent …

I'm tired of the Viking pop culture trend erasing warrior women

Mashable SEA — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:05:34 +0000

More like NorthWOMAN, amiright??? Shieldmaiden representation matters!

This post contains spoilers for The Northman

There's a background character in The Northman you probably blinked and missed. But her appearance, however brief, electrified me more than any other thrill in director Robert Eggers' bombastic new Viking epic (and that's saying something).

Amleth (who embodies the traditional …

'Historic victory': Campaigners in Colombia celebrate decriminalization of abortion

Mashable SEA — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:34:08 +0000

The ruling is a "significant step forward" for access without fear of punishment.

In Colombia, abortion has been decriminalized, as ruled by the country's top court on Monday. People can now seek the procedure during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy without fear of prosecution, a result of a growing grassroots feminist movement that has swept across Colombia, long a mostly conservative, Catholic …

At-home early medical abortions will continue to be allowed in the UK

Mashable SEA — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:58:55 +0000

A win in the fight for reproductive rights, but there's still a ways to go.

The UK government has said that at-home early medical abortions can continue to take place in the country, a decision that abortion campaigners have been pushing for particularly during the pandemic.

At-home early medical abortions, or telemedicine abortions, were granted temporary approval in March …

New study shows that Facebook's job ad algorithm still discriminates based on gender

Alex Perry — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 15:12:15 +0000

Facebook isn't supposed to let advertisers target by things like age or gender for employment ads anymore, but a new study showed that the social network's ad algorithm is doing it anyway.

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Facebook isn't supposed to let advertisers target by things like age or gender for employment ads anymore, but a new study showed that the social network's ad …

Malaysian preacher deems Faceapp's gender-swap feature to be 'haram' for Muslims

Tarvin Gill — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 05:51:58 +0000

He's worried about the repercussions it could bring.

For some reason, Faceapp’s gender-swapping feature has made a comeback as people are posting up pictures of how they look like as the opposite gender on their social media accounts.

Perhaps this is due to being bored amidst the coronavirus lockdown. But lockdown or not, it’s quite fun knowing how …

Zing Tsjeng on pirate queens, resistance heroines, and history's forgotten women

Rachel Thompson — Thu, 21 May 2020 09:41:09 +0000

Tsjeng discusses the role racism, classism, and sexism all intersect to erase women of colour and working class women from history.

This article has been published to coincide with an episode of Mashable's new podcast, History Becomes Her. Listen here.

Women account for around half of the world’s population. But they only occupy around 0.5 percent of recorded history.

Zing Tsjeng is the author of the

The designer behind Unicode's first gender-inclusive emoji talks about what's next

Natasha Pinon — Thu, 14 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Their (now-realized) proposal was just the start.

When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji form. This made for some relatively rudimentary emoji communication …

Malaysia's Women's March will continue despite fears over COVID-19

Mae Yen Yap — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 08:23:59 +0000

Here are the details.

COVID-19 may have many people afraid and staying indoors this International Women's Day, but some Malaysians will be defying those fears to stand up for equality.

In conjunction with International Women's Day on March 8, Malaysia's Women's March will be taking place on Sunday.

#WomensMarchMY.

This Malaysian state wants to ban women from performing in public

Mae Yen Yap — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 05:15:54 +0000

Yikes.

Anyone here remember when a post about Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) having gender segregated lines went viral?

Well, it's not just airports that you might have to worry about now.

The Malaysian state of Terengganu will soon be implementing an 11-point guideline that will enforce gender …

At long last, there's a bubble tea emoji

Haidee Chu — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:49:59 +0000

Bubble tea is among the 62 new emoji coming in 2020.

A new wave of emoji is coming — and boba finally makes the list.

There's plenty to celebrate. The Unicode Consortium, a non-profit that standardizes languages across digital platforms and devices, on Wednesday announced an upcoming launch of 62 new emoji. Among them are a …

Investigation is launched on Apple Card for gender bias

Stephen Macdonald — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:20:43 +0000

Apple card sexist?

The investigation follows a series of tweets by a customer upset over the credit limit given to his wife, as well as the customer service from Apple.

Principal accused of helping students cheat in exams dated a woman without revealing her gender

Sukhbir Cheema — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:48:00 +0000

The principal's name is Pony.

Never trust a person who has Pony for their name. They can take you for a ride.

This is what 33-year-old Tan Jia Yan learned after she recently discovered that the person she was dating was, in fact, a woman.

Pony Poh Yuan Nie did not reveal …

Snapchat's 'gender-swap' filter exposes the internet's casual transphobia

Sage Anderson — Thu, 16 May 2019 21:35:18 +0000

The 'gender-swap' filter rolled out last week and the internet had a field day.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is a face filter for everything, from putting puppy ears on your head to horrifically swapping your face with inanimate objects.

The latest filter trend on Snapchat is gender. Yep, just gender. This filter, in particular, captured people's attention in a …

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