This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One woman’s supervisor told her he’d give her credit for working a shift at a Charlestown bread company if she went home with him instead. When she resisted his advances,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I knew many women in prison during my nearly two decades of spinning in and out of incarceration. After my sixth release, someone stepped up to help me and I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sitting in the concrete courtyard of Ilopango women’s prison in San Salvador, El Salvador, Teodora del Carmen Vasquez speaks slowly, with the tone of someone who has told her story many times.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today the buzz around life skills education for girls is at an all-time high. Policy and civil society actors — from United Nations agencies to grassroots community-based organizations — have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is increasingly acknowledged that the global gender gap is severe, with major negative economic and social consequences, and that accelerating progress toward gender parity has enormous benefits. Yet progress…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most rural women in India lack a land title. If one’s husband died, or decided to leave the family, they could be left homeless, without rights to their home. All…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A global partnership to drive access to family planning services has reported that almost 40 million more women and girls are using contraception since the initiative launched five years ago.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In early 2018, the United States Agency for International Development will issue an open call for proposals for innovative ideas to bridge the “gender digital divide,” or gender inequalities caused by barriers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past several decades, cities across the United States have had trouble dealing with abandoned properties as factories close and people move out of urban centers and into the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The prevention and prosecution of modern slavery and trafficking is of relatively recent interest to private philanthropy; its metrics are still not fully defined. The Global Slavery Index, a project…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.K. secretary of state for international development pledged 40 million pounds ($54 million) to combat “modern slavery” on Friday in a move celebrated by many in the aid community —…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Now in its third year and as a spate of accusations of sexual assault have swept through the aid industry and beyond, the United Nations-led HeForShe movement, which calls on men to…