Until a few months ago, Samia Gul could kick, dribble and manoeuvre a football like a star player. The 12-year-old, who hails from Pakistan’s “football district” Lyari in southern Karachi,…
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Employment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in the United States is not equitable. Women, particularly Black and Hispanic women, are underrepresented in many sub-sectors of STEM and face larger wage…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Belonging to one or more groups with long-standing social and economic disadvantages increases the risk of…
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Women are the center of our economy, care systems, and essential work—yet they aren’t at the center of our policies, programs, and pandemic recovery plans. Over the last two years,…
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Rural families in Bangladesh are using a large chunk of their budgets to protect themselves from climate change, especially households headed by women who are allocating up to 30 per…
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The conversation helped raise the awareness about safety resources for women, ways to advocate for women and the ever-present need to protect Black women at all times. The #AskHer conversation…
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Techbridge Girls (TBG) is working to ensure BIPOC and gender-expansive youth aren’t left out of the STEM revolution. “The way that STEM education is designed, delivered, and digested does not…
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Giving circles are a great way for people to come together and make a difference collectively, but they are not immune from the problems that have plagued the philanthropic sector,…
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Stasia Obremskey: In my late twenties, my hard-charging career as a Wall Street investment banker, Harvard B-School grad, and management consultant took a left turn when I set off to…
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During the pandemic, a staggering 4.2 million women across the country had to leave the workforce—a full million more women than men. For one thing, layoffs in hard-hit sectors like the leisure and hospitality…
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While journalists, especially broadcast journalists, have been trained to keep going no matter what and to not make themselves the story, a new study finds that women journalists also see…
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Over the last century, SCOTUS decisions have shaped our lives as LGBTQ+ people, as women, as people of color, as immigrants, and in so many other ways. Many of our rights…
