This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As COVID-19 continues to surge globally, communities and countries are facing the very real health, social, and economic impacts of the pandemic, and entire industries are being upended in ways…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Beedof Abireh talks with Global Citizen about how to address violence and neglect towards girls in Nigeria, who face a series of injustices on a daily…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, especially young children. It’s also exceptionally dangerous to another at-risk group: pregnant women. Researchers have estimated that 10 to 20 percent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A diverse range of funders are pushing toward the targets set out in the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) of achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Oct 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Just 1 in 7 British rape victims believe they will get justice if they go to the police, according to a survey published on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At this moment, many girls are experiencing trauma in the United States. Worldwide, nearly one in four girls between the ages of fifteen and nineteen are neither employed or receiving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women’s labor force participation has stagnated and reversed since 2000. The gap between wages of men and women has fallen over the past several decades, but a significant gender wage gap…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two University of North Carolina graduate students were curious: Were female school superintendents earning less than their male counterparts? Considering longstanding gender pay gaps across the economy, they expected to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The founder of the #MeToo movement marked its third anniversary on Thursday by launching an online platform to fight sexual violence, hoping to expand the reach of the campaign against…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the early 2000s, “returnships,” a term trademarked by Goldman Sachs in 2008, have been part of the solution to the puzzling challenge of how to get women back into…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Children’s television programming not only shapes opinions and preferences, its characters can have positive or negative impacts on childhood aspiration, according to a new study. The study is the first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women hold two-thirds of the jobs in the harshest category of work, according to new report on Washington workers during the pandemic. The researchers looked at data on demographics, working…