I am an assistant captain on the ship. They tell me that this work is not for women Alexander Vinokurova is 27 years old, she works as an assistant to the captain on a trading ship. To take place in the profession, she had to overcome the fear of heights, survive in storms and typhoons, and learn how to pull people out of a smoky room. She constantly encounters gender stereotypes and hears that she has no place in the sea if she is a woman.

A patient with HIV accuses an employee of the Regional Perinatal Center in Chelyabinsk of discrimination because of her diagnosis, writes 74.ru. According to Irina (not her real name), upon discharge from the maternity hospital, the employee asked if she had been sterilized after giving birth, and then said that she did not need to give birth at all, since she had HIV.

18-year-old medical college student Aishat Magomedova returned to Moscow from Dagestan after her relatives who kidnapped her gave her documents and released her, human rights group Marem reports . The day before yesterday, an investigator in Dagestan interviewed Aishat and took her for a forensic medical examination. He then took the girl back to her relatives and demanded that they let her use the phone.

A few minutes of watching TikTok videos can negatively affect the way women perceive their bodies, the Guardian writes , citing a study by Australian scientists from Charles Sturt University. Scientists surveyed 273 women aged 18 to 28 about their body image and beauty standards. Then the sample was divided into two groups - each was shown a different selection of videos for 7-8 minutes.

From 2020 to 2023, almost 200 thousand women were dissuaded from terminating pregnancy through pre-abortion counseling in Russian clinics, reports the To Be Precise publication, citing Rosstat data. Of these women, 94% were dissuaded from having an abortion in public clinics, and only 6% in private ones. In 2023, 48.8 thousand women, after pre-abortion counseling, refused to terminate their pregnancy. This is every sixth person who goes to a clinic for an abortion.