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    Economy & Labor

    We spotlight the unique challenges faced by women in the global workforce – from employment opportunities to pay disparity, access to financial services, and sexual and physical abuse in the workplace – and hold accountable those who perpetrate or allow such injustices.

    Weaponizing Children

    In 1977, the public school system of Tyler, Texas, a small city 100 miles southeast of Dallas, began expelling students who couldn’t prove they were in the United States legally. The state had passed a law cutting…
    by Rikha Sharma Rani

    This article was originally published in The New Republic.

    At the Texas-Mexico Border, Her Son Begged Not to be Taken. They Took Him Anyway.

    ‘I Felt My Heart Being Taken Away From Me,’ Says His Mother Valquiria had never spent a day apart from her 7-year-old son, B, until March, when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) whisked the…
    by Rikha Sharma Rani

    This article was originally published in The Lily.

    Undocumented Mothers are Increasingly Being Arrested. These Women are Fighting Back.

    Through the rearview mirror, Alma watched the blue and red lights flash across her young son’s worried face. As the police officer approached her car, panic set in. She didn’t have a driver’s license. She…
    by Haloren Mellendorf

    This article was originally published in The Lily.

    Is Deportation a Death Sentence for Salvadoran Women?

    What will happen to the girls and women deported from the U.S. to Central America? Many fear the answer. The Trump administration said last week that, by September 2019, it will deport 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants…
    by Xanthe Scharff and Dánae Vílchez

    This article was originally published in Newsweek.

    Nigerian girls often still drop out of school to work, despite the country’s increasing wealth

    Kehinde and Taiwo are among 10.5 million children in Nigeria who are not in primary school — no country in the world has more children out of school.
    by Ijeoma Ndukwe

    This article was originally published in PRI.

    The World According to Men

    How journalists portray the world has real consequences, and the world is being portrayed through a male lens.
    by Christina Asquith

    This article was originally published in The Atlantic.

    The “Gang of Girls” Risks Their Lives to Report From Inside a War Zone

    Amid the rubble of Syria, a band of women are risking prison, or worse, to report, write, and edit the civil war's paper of record.
    by Christina Asquith

    This article was originally published in Elle.

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