From Backlash to Bravery: Women’s Fight for Rights in 2025

A global look at victories, challenges, and the women who refused to stay silent.

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“Feminism is the radical idea that women are people.”

It is a sentence so simple that it almost sounds self-evident. And yet, history reminds us just how disruptive that idea has always been.
Since the first wave of feminism, much has changed. Women gained the right to vote, to work, to own property, to access education, to speak publicly, to choose. Laws shifted. Societies adapted. And still, the idea that women are fully autonomous people—capable of making decisions about their bodies, labour, time, and lives—continues to face resistance.
This article is not an attempt to summarise the long history of feminism. Instead, it looks closely at 2025—a single year, across regions and cultures—to ask a more grounded question: what did this year actually mean for women?

2025 was not a fairytale victory. It carried progress and backlash, visibility and violence, hope and exhaustion—often at the same time. In…