Women are fighting for equal pay and leadership opportunities in South Korea. Many men aren’t happy about it.
A woman’s lawsuit against a TV host for sexual harassment finally goes to court. In China, supporters see her case as a milestone for women’s rights.
Many analysts suggested that the results of April’s mayoral elections in the capital, Seoul, and the country’s second-largest city, Busan, which were swept by the conservative opposition, were driven by the discontent among young men.. That year, a group of South Korean women fed up with widespread misogyny on male-dominated online forums decided the best way to push back was to give as good as they got.
Even so, the group — and its brand of feminism — continues to reverberate and dominate gender debates and criticisms of the women’s movement.
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