BBC Monitoring

During a one-day survey, BBC Monitoring found most Facebook female users in Afghanistan have fake profile pictures. 

Many believe they will face harassment if their real photos are used.

Read about the survey here:

Earlier, women at The Book Attic, external in Hong Kong debated attractivenes.

They discussed how "beauty opens the door" because "people actually associate physical attraction with positive qualities".

The women's group Une Gruaja in Albania has been discussing leadership.

"Women start to act like men once they enter politics because this is the only model that exists.

"They are forced to behave like this, in order to be heard," they say.

At the debate in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, Meriem and Latifa agree that quotas are a good way for the moment because "we don't have enough women as leaders - they need more pushing and encouragement".

"You battle with it because you want to show who you are as a person on the outside and so many people just see you on the outside and say that is who they are," school pupil Grace told the BBC 100 Women London debate.

Responding to Dr Catherine Hakim's comments that beauty could be as important as a degree, school pupil Hannah said: “I don’t think that the way that I look is going to help to achieve the A levels that I want, get into the university that I want, get the job that I want."

Speaking at the London debate, another pupil, 16-year-old Emily, added: “If you keep on saying that your looks will get you further, that will just make you more self-conscious.”

In the next hour there are 100 Women discussions getting going in New York from the group Women For Afghan Women, students at Brown University and the Mentoring Women's Network USA.

“I’ve always been judged on merit… on the way I presented myself," said Nazmin Alim, the founder of Aab Boutique.

Speaking at the BBC 100 Women debate in London, she said: "Social media, can be damaging on image but it’s also quite empowering for some - women who were nobodies have become somebodies. 

"For women in headscarves, the way that media portrays us as just wives or mothers - it’s quite damaging”

Founder of comedy community Funnywomen said female comedians had been forced to not project a glamorous image but things are changing. 

Lynne Parker said: “Years ago when I first started in comedy, there was a huge pressure for female comedians to dumb down the way they looked because the promoters said that people wouldn't take them seriously.

Tiffany, Jessica and Tamsyn from the First Fish Hoek Girl Guides in Cape Town say: "People are more drawn to attractive females, based on their first impressions."

Image source, Michelle Thompson

"Social media is so staged and Photoshopped, young girls are now becoming isolated.

"There is no clear divide between reality and social media," they add.

Although there's a rise in apps designed to make photos look better, photographer Diana Mess says does not like editing images.

We love this video from the women of the 50/50 gender equality group in Sierra Leone.

During their event as part of 100 Women 2015 they sang a song and called for "more women - better politics".

Natasha Hart, the first Russian woman to receive an OBE for services to sport, says: "There is an old Russian saying 'when you meet people, you judge them by their face, when you say goodbye, you judge them by their brain'."

She is the founder of Newham All Star Sports Academy in east London.

Would you rather have a degree or be beautiful?  

According to Dr Catherine Hakim - author of Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital - a university degree could be just as important as your image.

Aisha says they have debated whether women have to act like men to succeed, but she argues we mis-assign male roles and many of the characteristics traditionally assigned to men are just human ones.

Craig Waite emails a response to Carrie Melbourne's point (1415), published earlier on this page, that it is "never OK" for a woman to be subservient to a man.