This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During the UK’s first national COVID-19 lockdown — which started on March 23, 2020, and ran for about three months — many people dealing with a world of virtual quizzes and daily jogs decided…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women’s rights are human rights. It seems this should be obvious (and indisputable), like gravity. Women and girls make up about half of the world’s population, and therefore half of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gender disparities in health are not a phenomenon unique to the pandemic. Long before COVID-19, women made less money than men, had more child care responsibilities and were at increased…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The arrival of a baby can often mean a career break or a transition to self-employment or part-time work for mothers. Compare this to fathers who usually continue in formal, full-time employment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Trump administration expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility recommendations to include anyone over the age of 65 on Tuesday, but experts warn that without strategies to ensure women frontline workers are immunized, progress…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Stopping carbon pollution alone will not bring climate justice. Reaching net-zero by 2050 will not either. Neither will achieving 100 percent renewable energy targets. The entire economy is being rebuilt.…
As we continue to confront the devastating pandemic within our communities and globally, we view domestic violence as a parallel pandemic. Also known as intimate partner violence, domestic abuse is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What I’m seeing as I mentor and coach entrepreneurs in the U.S. and globally is that more and more of them want to build companies that can make a positive social impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Coronavirus closed thousands of daycares last year, forcing parents with young children out of the labor force in droves. The scale of that exodus is now clear: about 700,000 parents…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world has changed dramatically over the last 10 months. In the midst of such broad changes, we might be tempted to throw away our old ways of doing things…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2018, Odunayo Eweniyi was just five years out of university and had already founded two companies, the second of which, PiggyVest, had just raised $1.1 million in funding. Today,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Experts around the world are sounding the alarm on the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women’s lives. As UN Women reports, “The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and COVID-19 is…