This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Period poverty is a prevalent issue in South Africa, where there remains a large number of people who don’t have access to menstrual education or sanitary products. Creating access to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent months, we have seen an increase in the attention paid to informal workers, both in policy and media circles. Some of these narratives have been positive, recognising the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I invite donors to act as boldly as the Black and brown women whose bodies are the front lines of change. In Georgia, long before the 2020 elections were part of the national news…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing women in the US out of the workplace in droves, putting them at risk of years of unemployment and financial uncertainty. US employers cut 140,000 jobs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If a crisis…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the 1930s, as laws were passed to exclude Black people from generating wealth through homeownership, racist investor regulations were created for the same purpose, with the Securities and Exchange…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to fundamentally rethink the design, implementation, and measurement of our Girls’ Education Program (GEP) at Room to Read to ensure girls are supported, continue…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of Uganda’s most accomplished female boxers, Hellen Baleke, is using her skills in the ring to teach women to empower and defend themselves. Baleke has made it her mission…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Not a single country has achieved economic equality between women and men. As of 2019, women only had equal rights in six countries. Everywhere else, legal discrimination, harmful beliefs, lack of access to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change is causing an increase in unpredictable and intense monsoons, which are impacting Sindh’s ability to produce agricultural and livestock products. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), the flooding…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 and Girls’ Rights highlights how, in this global health and economic crisis, girls will continue to be the worst affected, and a multitude of issues will be exacerbated, whilst…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For some women, a break from work around childbirth is a temporary period of recovery and bonding before resuming their previous work responsibilities. For others, however, it constitutes a more…