More: women’s empowerment
Taliban’s backtracking on girls’ education, ‘deeply damaging’
Following a U-turn over re-opening girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the UN human rights chief shared her “profound frustration and disappointment” that...
Aditi Arora – working towards making gender equality a reality in India
Aditi Arora is the Country Manager- India for Girl Up and a member of the Inclusivity Advisory Board at Just A Girl Inc. She...
Empowering women and girls in the Caribbean for long-lasting change
Authors: Lilia Burunciuc, and Ximena de Carpio*
“Raise a son, and you will raise a man, raise a girl and you will raise a nation”....
Investment in Education Pays Off Over Generations
Authors: Honorable Ms. Vera Daves De Sousa, Honorable Ms. Luisa Grilo, Mr. Jean-Christophe Carret*
Angola is charting a path toward prosperity. There is no investment...
Indonesian Herbs: Empowering Indonesian women in the Menoreh Mountain Area
Indonesia is a country rich in biodiversity that in each region of Indonesia has a lot of natural wealth in the form of medicinal...
Europe and Central Asia Economies Need More Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
Women’s participation in the labor market drives economic and business growth. Yet the global economy incurs significant costs by failing to take full advantage...
Helen Benedict: On making the military more inclusive for women
Helen Benedict is a novelist specializing in social injustice, refugees and violence against women. She is best known for her work highlighting military sexual...
Addressing gender inequalities in research through institutional change
Gender equality and inclusion are key metrics by which performance is measured in industry today. Research is no exception. While there is no quick...
Nearly 2.4 Billion Women Globally Don’t Have Same Economic Rights as Men
Around 2.4 billion women of working age are not afforded equal economic opportunity and 178 countries maintain legal barriers that prevent their full economic...
The long road to gender equality is paved with data
We have come a long way to gaining gender parity at the doctoral and graduate level, but the gender gap persists in pretty much...