In India, microfinance is destroying women’s lives
Microfinance promised women’s empowerment. But in West Bengal, where the practice has grown exponentially in the past decade, women are dying, disappearing, and getting stuck in endless cycles of debt
Inside the shadowy world of the billion-dollar fertility industry
The author of Unwell Women and A Woman’s Work questions our obsession with wombs and considers what resistance by mothers and midwives has looked like through the ages
‘They had names’: How the deaths of eight pregnant women started a movement
Nuria Tesón considers why the deaths of eight women in childbirth in Agadir, Morocco, started a mass uprising.
Investigation: With PayPal focused on profit, far-right groups transact undetected and undeterred
PayPal prohibits any transactions "involving the promotion of hate or intolerance". Yet Fuller found at least nine far-right groups use its technology to sell merch or receive donations. Ex-staff say cuts and culture help explain why
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Ai-jen Poo’s big idea: Make care work the engine of the AI era
The lifelong organizer discusses the invisible caregiving crisis in the US – and why building a new social contract around care is our best defense against automation and AI job displacement
From price tags to the pink tax: the story behind this edition’s imagery
Visuals editor Gabrielle Smith on invisible labour, the pink tax and why price tags show up in our Cost of Living edition
Amy Wallace’s big idea: The underreported story of the Epstein Files is about class
Amy Wallace who co-authored Virginia Roberts Guiffre’s memoire, Nobody’s Girl, discusses what the book and its main character’s experience tells us about power, politics and patriarchy in the United States today
Inside the shadowy world of the billion-dollar fertility industry
The author of Unwell Women and A Woman’s Work questions our obsession with wombs and considers what resistance by mothers and midwives has looked like through the ages
Caretaking and craft: The story behind this edition’s imagery
Visuals editor Lara Antal on how they took the simple idea of a quilted blanket, and transformed it into a rich and versatile creative framework for our Motherhood edition
The beauty and cruelty of young motherhood
With a total abortion ban, limited sex education and high poverty, teen pregnancy in the Dominican Republic is alarmingly high. During her visit, photographer Ana María Arévalo Gosen found that Haitian girls were even more vulnerable
Elinor Cleghorn's big idea: ‘Women aren’t the solution to an aging population’
The author of Unwell Women and A Woman’s Work questions our obsession with wombs and considers what resistance by mothers and midwives has looked like through the ages
Poem: Past Due
A poem on the cost of motherhood, by Upile Chisala
Groundbreaking reporting on women and gender-diverse people
Ai-jen Poo’s big idea: Make care work the engine of the AI era
Elinor Cleghorn's big idea: ‘Women aren’t the solution to an aging population’
‘It’s tied to 666’: Abortion disinformation threatens 20 years of progress in Ethiopia
What you need to know about the state of abortion in the US today
These creators help millions of people talk about bodies, sex and sexuality. Their content is being removed because of it
Everyone agrees something needs to be done about low birth rates. The question is will anything work?
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