This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A group of campaigners and lawyers have launched an urgent inquiry exploring the possibility that alleged systemic racism in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is impacting maternal health outcomes for ethnic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “The ability to control whether and when you become pregnant is a basic human right, since pregnancy and childbirth have enormous implications for social and economic life trajectories,” says Maria…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women in Latin America are giving up on work or struggling to find jobs as the pandemic threatens to wipe out a decade of female economic progress, the United Nations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As of 2019, public support for legal abortion remains as high as it has been in two decades of polling. Currently, 61% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Baljit Kaur, 50 has been farming most of her life in Punjab, India. For her, cultivating her crops and tending to the land is a blessing and goes beyond simply…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on most parts of the world, restricting activities and movement. People have been forced to deal with restrictions on their usual ways of travel,…
Women are nowhere close to equal to men in the United States. They are underpaid. They are underrepresented in government. Their work is undervalued. And the burdens of a functioning…
#AskHer is an interview series featuring women and gender non-conforming leaders, and The Women’s Foundation’s partners, community members and supporters who work tirelessly for women and girls. We curate in-depth…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Effectively engaging more men in the fight for gender equality won’t be easy. A 2019 Time Magazine poll found that 65 percent of men don’t believe that sexism is a serious problem…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The abortion debate is at the center of U.S. political dialogue. As of June 2018, 49 percent of Americans consider themselves pro-choice, while 45 percent consider themselves pro-life. Voices from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While individual countries have made progressed in the fight for equal rights, there is still a long way to go before gender equality can be fully achieved on a global scale.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research suggests that investing in Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) has important linkages with gender equality. As a result, India has witnessed several schemes and progressive legislation—both at the central and state levels—that…