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Living on the Edge: how the “benefits cliff” holds women back

Economists call the dilemma the “benefits cliff”: get a new job or a promotion, and a rise in income beyond a certain threshold can disqualify people from benefits which they rely on to survive.

by Bunny McFadden

Co-published with The Guardian

A decade after Rana Plaza’s collapse, factories are safer but women garment workers face new threats

A decade after Rana Plaza’s collapse killed over 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh, women in the industry face new threats.

by Maher Sattar

This Q&A was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on April 24, 2023. Subscribe here.

“There’s no support” — Undocumented and unemployed in pandemic-era California

The lack of unemployment protections for undocumented women were exacerbated during the pandemic.

by Yusra Farzan

Co-published with The Guardian

Anxious wait for working mothers as last of California’s pandemic relief set to expire

A period of unprecedented aid reduced racial disparity in the Golden State, but all that remains is a child care subsidy that ends this summer.

by Courtney E. Martin

Co-published with The Guardian

A growing number of women farmers are changing the face of California’s agricultural industry

Farming is Female: women farmers in California are changing the face of the agricultural industry in their state and across the country.

by Rachel Sarah

Co-published with The Guardian

In Thailand, an Uphill Battle to Legalize Sex Work

Sex workers and liberal politicians are fighing an uphill battle to legalize sex work in Thailand.

by Neha Wadekar

Co-published with Foreign Policy

A rare instance of accountability

Overharvesting of frankincense led our reporter down a years-long investigation into abuse and exploitation in the essential oils industry.

by Rachel Fobar

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on January 30, 2023. Subscribe here.

Somaliland’s Frankincense Brings Gold to Companies. Its Women Pay the Price.

Female workers tell of exploitation and sexual assault at frankincense warehouse supplying US essential oils company.

by Rachel Fobar

Co-published with The Guardian

Qatar’s World Cup Legacy Is Stranded Worker Widows

As the most controversial World Cup in recent memory draws to a close, thousands of widows across South Asia are left picking up the pieces of their shattered lives.

by Bhadra Sharma, Maher Sattar

Co-published with Foreign Policy

Women under pressure as finance sector makes push into remittances

Women migrants send back half of global remittances. Women who stay back receive most of them. One scholar warns that this money is being targeted.

by Maher Sattar

This Q&A was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on December 12, 2022. Subscribe here.

Reporter’s Notebook: Migrant women in Qatar’s hotels speak out

Migrant women working in Qatar's World Cup hotels have said they were ignored when they made allegations of harassment or abuse.

by Louise Donovan

Female migrant workers speak out about harassment in Qatar’s World Cup hotels

As the FIFA World Cup starts, migrant women working in Qatar's hotels say their allegations of harassment or abuse have been ignored.

by Louise Donovan

Co-published with The Guardian

“Neither a widow nor a wife”: India’s abandoned brides

Fraudster husbands in India get married and make promises to take their new wives abroad. But once they receive a dowry, they leave the brides behind. Abused and defrauded, these women are trying to put…

by Safina Nabi

Co-published with Scroll

Reporter’s Notebook: Ukraine’s women farmers battle air raids and blockades to keep the world fed

As the breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine plays a crucial role in the global food supply and the Russian invasion has had a devastating impact. Contributor Amie Ferris-Rotman spoke to the women farmers fighting to keep the world fed as war rages around them.

by Amie Ferris-Rotman

The Ukrainian women farmers fighting to keep the world fed

The war in Ukraine is taking a terrible toll on the country’s farmers and the world’s hungry, exacerbating an already crippling food crisis. These Ukrainian women farmers on the front lines of Russia’s hunger war.

by Amie Ferris-Rotman

Co-published with TIME

Financial Pandemic: 'What I thought was a great salary wasn’t so great with more than 65 percent inflation'

Argentine Silvana Perona, 45, spent much of the past two decades working in finance in Europe but moved home to Buenos Aires during the pandemic to be closer to her elderly parents. Even though her work is well-paid, the country's worst inflation in 30 years has left her counting every penny.
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- As living costs spiral in Kenya, a mother sacrifices to spare family from ‘dire times’
- ‘Sri Lanka is not a country for poor people now’ - A Lima woman is fighting to feed her community as food prices soar

by Fran Blandy

Part of The Fuller Project’s Financial Pandemic series

Eighteen months in, Myanmar’s garment workers face widespread abuse under military rule

New research documents the alleged abuse of over 60,000 garment workers under military rule, with Zara, H&M, Lidl and Bestseller linked to the most cases.

by Louise Donovan

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on August 1, 2022. Subscribe here.

Financial Pandemic: For a refugee in crisis-hit Lebanon, even buying bread is a struggle

Zahwa Ashwah, a widow in her sixties, lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon, where food and fuel prices have soared since a 2019 economic crisis. She and her family now struggle to afford enough to eat.
Related:
- As living costs spiral in Kenya, a mother sacrifices to spare family from ‘dire times’
- ‘Sri Lanka is not a country for poor people now’
- Lima woman fights to feed her community as food prices soar

by Katherine Pangonis

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