A woman running for office in the United Arab Emirates is encouraging Emirati men to marry more than one woman to solve the problem of "spinsterhood" in the country of 9.68 million. Khawla Al Ali is ...

Joint Arab List MK Aida Touma-Sliman (archive). Member of Knesset (MK) Aida Touma-Sliman, Chair of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality and a member of the Arab-majority ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 11 story has been refiled to clarify that India is home to the third-largest Muslim population in the world, in paragraph 8) Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of ...

Mumbai: A significant majority of Muslim women want polygamy outlawed, with 85% saying it should be legally invalid and 87% wanting the application of existing criminal provisions against their ...

In February 1870, Utah women became the first in the country to vote under an equal suffrage law. The triumphant version of this history celebrates the state’s early dedication to equality for women.

Assam's cabinet has approved 'The Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025', which imposes up to seven years of imprisonment for polygamy. (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was after 21 years of marriage and six children together that Joyce's husband brought home his second wife, without any discussion or warning. The 38-year-old ...

In the state of nature, people were generally polygamous, as are most animals. With many animals, the male leaves the female soon after mating and long before any offspring are born. According to ...