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Spain will pay sick benefit for disabling menopause-related conditions from 1 December 2026; on 27 October doctors asked for common criteria.

An ICRIER report released around October 30, 2026 finds India's working women rose from 104 million to 201 million since 2017-18, but unpaid care hours barely changed.

An NHRC advisory dated October 23, 2026 asks the Centre and states to act on eight areas of women's safety, from POSH enforcement to panic buttons in buses.

Web Summit's 2026 Gender in Tech report finds 42% of women surveyed considered scaling back or leaving tech, citing burnout and childcare.

A Grant Thornton Bharat survey released October 27, 2026 found 94% of women respondents depend on salary as main income and about 69% have no second income.

A Japanese study of 31,528 mothers, published October 27, 2026, links night work through pregnancy to higher developmental screening risk in children at four.

The UK launched a £15 million, three-year misogyny prevention fund on October 27, 2026, for mentoring, workplace training and public campaigns.

US women can expect seven lifetime years caring for older relatives and friends, up from six in 2011, while men stay at four, a study announced on Oct 21, 2026 finds.

A Hanwha survey of 3,000 South Korean women released October 21, 2026 found they do 23 hours of housework a week in dual-income homes with young children, men 12.

France's first menopause conference on October 15, 2026, proposed flexible hours and better care; on October 16 European unions asked for an EU law on menopause at work.

Il Fornaio will pay $3 million to settle an EEOC suit over harassment of at least 100 women, many teenagers, the agency said on 13 October 2026.

A Resume Genius survey reported on October 14, 2026, finds 48% of laid-off US women got no severance, benefits or job help, against 34% of men.

A US study of 1,603 first-year OB-GYN residents, 86.5% women, found 35.6% screened positive for depression and fewer than a third sought help.

At Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, held October 12-14, 2026, speakers warned women's C-suite progress has stalled near 30% as AI reshapes how firms are run.

A BCEC-WGEA report released October 13, 2026 finds women leave leadership roles faster than men, and only 13.2% of Australian employers design part-time management jobs.

From October 2026, Karnataka approves women government employees' monthly menstrual leave automatically on the Kartavya app; officers cannot question or reject it.

A Gallup-Pivotal poll published Oct 8, 2026 finds 44% of British women say health limited their lives; 29% cut work hours and only 22% understand menopause treatments.