This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. #MeToo, for all the progress it has made in exposing sexual harassment and abuse—and in exposing the contours of systemic sexism more broadly—has been, from the outset, largely limited in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A few years ago, Michelle Hebl attended the latest in a series of talks hosted by her department at Rice University. The speaker was a man, and Hebl realized that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It may be a new year, but Melinda Gates is still committed to using her platform and voice to empower women throughout the world. The co-founder of the Bill &…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As male harassers and assaulters have been unmasked over the last few months, the reckoning has largely been confined to the realm of the white-collar worker, particularly in industries with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The intention to generate social or environmental benefit is key to impact investing. But a tax break can be an additional incentive. Among the many provisions of the Republican tax…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The release of the Performance of Australian Aid report in May showed the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was nearing an important target set by Julie Bishop as one her first orders of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two sisters from Saudi Arabia, who are currently in Turkey, are desperately trying to avoid being returned to the kingdom, where they could be imprisoned, their lawyer has told Al Jazeera. Serdarhan…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2017 was a watershed year for gender and human rights … sort of. Landmark legislation aimed to control the migration and advancement of some of the world’s poorest peoples, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women’s economic empowerment is often touted as the magic bullet — one that can respond to and mitigate violence by increasing the bargaining power women have within their households, communities,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I am a software engineer at Google. I teach with Citizen Schools because, as a woman in a male-dominated field, I know personally just how important education is to empowering…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Does the news cycle drive philanthropy? Giving Compass — founded to provide learning resources to donors who want to give with greater impact — was only a few months old…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A federal judge in Pennsylvania, Wendy Beetlestone, issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from implementing rules that would have overturned Obamacare’s Health and Human Services mandate, which requires that nearly…