Giving Compass' Take:

• Alanna Flores, writing for  Stanford Social Innovation Review, compiled a list of gender-focused articles on women's equality and empowerment. 

• What are the chief concerns in 2019 regarding women's equality? How can donors play a part in addressing gender issues? 

• Read the Giving Compass Gender Equality guide. 

We’ve collected recent SSIR articles on these themes and encourage you to consider your own impact on the advancements of women’s equality and human rights.

  • The Missing Politics of Female Empowerment Many efforts to empower women do not address the underlying political grievances that contribute to their unequal position, writes Nimmi Gowrinathan, founder of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative.
  •  Strength in Numbers According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression affects 322 million people worldwide. In developing countries like Uganda, the vast majority of those suffering don’t seek or receive treatment due to social stigma and lack of accessible resources, among other factors.
  • Reframing Sexual Violence: From #MeToo to Time’s Up During the past few years, national discourse about sexual violence focused on the #MeToo movement, which deeply personalized data points of sexual violence, promoting a more open dialogue for empowerment and empathy.
  • When Rapid Equals Urgent Across the globe, defenders of women’s and LGBTQ rights receive consistent threats from religious fundamentalists, right-wing nationalist extremists, and others. At the same time, there is a lack of resources going to locally-led women’s rights organizations.
  • Disrupting the Patriarchy Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), a secular women’s rights organization is training Muslim women in tenets of the Quran, the Indian constitution, and women’s rights law as a counterpart to this majority male clergy.
  • Why We Need to Nurture Entrepreneurship in Young Girls According to the American Express 2017 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, women-owned 39 percent of all privately held US firms, but those businesses contributed to just 4.2 percent of revenues.
  • The Code for Success In Nigeria, youth coding education has typically been an opportunity accessible only to boys and select girls whose families are financially comfortable.

Read the full article about articles on women's equality and empowerment by Alanna Flores at Stanford Social Innovation Review