ON occasion, when my female friends and I are sitting around talking, the issue of money will come up. And generally, most will readily admit that they don’t know anywhere near as much about their family ... Read more
A Southern legal advocacy group has claimed in a lawsuit that the State of South Carolina should not have surgically altered a 16-month-old child in its custody who was born with both male and female genitalia. ... Read more
LONDON — Is feminism an elitist preoccupation? A new British study argues that feminism here has failed working-class women by focusing obsessively on equality in the boardroom and the faltering race to ... Read more
BEIJING — Chinese fashionistas and regular folk have been cooing for days over the sky-blue scarf, the handsome handbag and the classic updo of Peng Liyuan, the wife of President Xi Jinping of China, who ... Read more
FOUNTAIN, Colo. — Coy Mathis was born a boy. But after just a few years, biology succumbed to a more powerful force. A buzz cut grew into long hair. Jeans gave way to pink dresses. And the ... Read more
SEOUL, South Korea — When North Korea blamed President Park Geun-hye’s “venomous swish of skirt” this week for tensions on the Korean Peninsula, it brought up an issue that had been ... Read more
NEW DELHI — It was always clear that this might be the best way to end the hold of dynasties on Indian politics, though no one had even hinted at it until a few days ago. Last week, Rahul Gandhi — ... Read more
LONDON — Could the next British prime minister be a woman? A surge of rumors in Parliament means it looks marginally more plausible this week than it did last week. Theresa May, the home secretary, has ... Read more
USILAMPATTI, INDIA — Back in the 1980s, this rural patch of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had the dubious distinction of the worst reputation for “gendercide,” or murder of unwanted baby ... Read more
LONDON — At 16, Isabelle Aleksander spends hours writing computer code and plans a career in engineering. Her latest passion is the Raspberry Pi, a low-cost, credit-card-size computer developed to help ... Read more