Gender Equity

On December 10th Cara Page, Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer and Richael Faithful (they/them), a multi/interdisciplinary folk healing artist, healing culture strategist, conflict worker, radical lawyer, complex…

Globally, 1 in 3 women will experience some form of gender-based violence in their lifetime. For women and girls in the Pacific, it’s closer to 3 in 4, or more than double —…

With the support of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, the UN Refugee Agency has provided more than 3,140 pregnant women and girls in Kenya’s Kakuma camp and Kalobeyei settlement with uninterrupted…

It’s no coincidence that all four of this year’s finalists for the prestigious Global Citizen Prize for World Leader also happen to be women. While women only lead 21 countries worldwide and…

The world still has a long way to go before reaching gender equality, according to new research. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published The Social Institutions and Gender Index…

Female leaders who have stood out for their handling of the coronavirus earned honors on Tuesday in the annual Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, which highlighted…

Recently, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute released our second annual report on the Women & Girls Index (WGI). It’s the only comprehensive index that measures charitable giving to women’s and girls’ causes in…

From increased attention on incidents of sexual harassment and assault, to calls for equal pay and representation in leadership roles, to policies affecting reproductive rights, women’s and girls’ causes continue…

Two health program methods are rarely used in Tanzania but have significantly reduced intimate partner violence in some communities, an ongoing study found. International development organization BRAC’s Tanzania chapter recently…

In Mexico, where COVID-19 had claimed more than 95,000 lives by mid-November, illness related to the virus has become the leading cause of maternal deaths. This sobering trend reverses a…

Where venture capitalists fear to tread, women angels are marching ahead. The importance of angels to female founders cannot be understated: 27% of angel portfolio companies have a woman CEO, according…

Gender inequality is a global problem. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Women Entrepreneurship Report 2018/19 shows that the average rate of women’s overall entrepreneurial activity is 10.2%, which is more than three-quarters of…