Gender equality

Students work on a project during a LEGO Education science lesson at Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Irving, Texas. (AP Photo/Ronaldo Bolaños)

On Monday, July 21, 2025, Colorado House Majority Leader Monica Duran, D-Wheat Ridge, holds a photo of Rep. Arie Taylor, the state's first Black woman legislator, who was instrumental in creating the first women's restroom at the state Capitol in Denver. (AP Photo/Rachel Woolf)

Florida Gulf Coast guard Cerina Rolle (3) and Oklahoma forward Skylar Vann (24) chase the ball during the second half in the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Norman, Okla. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)

A just-married couple from the LGBTQ+ community walks on rainbow carpet in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, on the first day a law took effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Rose's players Angel Reese, left, and Lexie Hull practice, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Medley, Fla., as the new 3-on-3 women's basketball league Unrivaled tips off this weekend. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Italy's Valentina Petrillo trains in Pieve di Cento, near Bologna, Italy, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympic Games at the end of this month in Paris. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Coach Isabelle Sambou, 43 years old, rear, two-time Olympian and nine-time African wrestling champion, explains a move to a young woman during a wrestling training in Mlomp, southern Senegal, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

FILE - Incumbent Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike celebrates after she was elected for Tokyo's gubernatorial election in Tokyo, Sunday, July 7, 2024. Multiple women competing for a top political office is still rare in Japan, but Koike’s win highlights a gradual rise in powerful female officials and a society more open to gender balance in politics. That said, even if a woman eventually becomes prime minister, politics here is still overwhelmingly dominated by men, and experts see a huge effort needed for equal representation. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Seiko Noda, Japan’s minister of gender equality and children’s issues, speaks during a interview with AP in Tokyo, July 26, 2022. During the wide-ranging session, Noda, one of only two women in Japan’s Cabinet, discussed the country’s glaring gender gap, calling women “underestimated” in Japan. . Noda called the country’s record low births and plunging population a national crisis and blamed "indifference and ignorance" in the male-dominated Japanese parliament for the neglect. (AP Photo / Eugene Hoshiko)