This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By AEI-Brookings This is an excellent and thought-provoking series of blog posts on paid family leave jointly sponsored by AEI and Brookings. Aparna Mathur at AEI and Isabel Sawhill at the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Facebook (FB, +1.51%) founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, a pediatric resident at the University of California San Francisco, donated $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Artificial intelligence has a diversity problem. Too many of the people creating it share a similar background. To renowned researcher Fei-Fei Li, this paucity of viewpoints constitutes a crisis: “As…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seattle Foundation and Global Washington hosted Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, CEO of the Global Fund for Women, for a round-table discussion about the importance of supporting women-led organizations around the world.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 220 million women in developing countries who don’t want to get pregnant lack access to contraceptives and voluntary family planning information and services. Less than 20 percent of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Facts: 84 percent of those prostituted report current or past homelessness 50,000 people are prostituted2 in the city of Chicago at any given time, almost all of whom are homeless.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Alexandra Rucinski has been a patient at the Planned Parenthood in Burlington, Iowa, since she unexpectedly became pregnant with her son five years ago. She was 22 years old then,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. WDN members participated in a webinar series, Moving Toward Reproductive Freedom, discussing the reproductive justice movement. In this two-part series, WDN’s Reproductive Health Circle learned about the history of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For some women, enrolling in an engineering course is like running a psychological gauntlet. If they dodge overt problems like sexual harassment, sexist jokes, or poor treatment from professors, they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the most important aspects of much of women’s philanthropy is its inclusiveness — the belief that there is always room for one more at the table in a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Commencement Address by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF Washington College – Chestertown, Maryland It is an intriguing question – What comes next? I imagine that from the time…
In 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates took a walk on the beach and made a big decision: to give their Microsoft wealth back to society. In conversation with Chris Anderson,…