African fashion is booming. It could create millions of jobs for women.
African fashion is booming as the continent’s middle class expands. It could create millions of jobs for women.
Women workers at high risk from automation
In Kenya’s tea plantations, labor activists say thirty thousand women have lost their jobs as a result of automation — they represent a broader global trend, with experts saying women are more likely than men…
The women workers who are subsidizing global public health
Millions of community health workers, like the famous ASHA workers of India, form the cost-effective backbone of rural health programs around the world but are often unpaid — meaning millions of unpaid or underpaid women…
Reporter’s Notebook: As suicides rise in Afghanistan, getting people to open up under the Taliban poses enormous challenges
News stories about Afghan women dying by suicide made Zahra Nader want to dig deeper. Getting people to open up took months.
Afghan women take their own lives as despair grows under Taliban rule
An investigation into rising female suicides in Afghanistan as the Taliban erodes women’s rights.
As heat waves intensify, evidence that older women are hit hardest is growing. Now some are fighting back.
As evidence grows that heat waves hit older women hardest, a group of Swiss women are taking their government to court over climate inaction.
Soccer’s fight for workers’ rights
Women soccer stars are seeing some success in their push for equal pay. The same isn’t true for the women in FIFA’s supply chain.
The women who helped bring down Sudan’s dictator hoped it would end discrimination against them. Instead, they’re fighting for their lives.
The Sudanese women who toppled al-Bashir wanted an equal seat at the negotiating table. Instead, they were sidelined by fundamentalist military commanders who served under al-Bashir.
South Korea’s crackdown on false accusations has “chilling effect” on rape survivors
A wave of anti-feminist backlash in South Korea -- from the president’s vow to go hard on “false sexual assault accusers” to the government’s open refusal to reform the country’s outdated rape laws -- is…
Do Gender Quotas in Elections Work?
Sierra Leone is about to become the latest country to find out.
‘Women bear the biggest brunt of climate change,’ says climate scientist Susan Chomba
Kenyan Susan Chomba leads the fight against climate change and for the environment in a high-profile role at the World Resources Institute.
Conservative Muslim Women Helped Erdoğan Win Previous Elections. Now Some Are Turning Against Him
Religious women are teaming up with secular feminists to fight back against the government’s growing authoritarianism and receding rights for women in the wake of Sunday’s pivotal elections in Turkey.
India’s solar power push delivers an unexpected bonus – empowering rural women
India’s push for solar delivers unexpected gains for women in the country’s rural areas.
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.
“Cornered on all sides”
25 years after El Salvador fully outlawed abortion, resulting in more than 50 women being imprisoned, a Latin American human rights court might finally overturn the ban.
Women protesters in Afghanistan call for aid groups to serve Taliban an ultimatum
Protesters say U.N. should withdraw aid from Afghanistan rather than give in to Taliban ban on women workers.
“Lessons learned” for Peru’s feminists as chaos engulfs Boluarte rule
The election of Peru’s first female president should have been a triumph. Instead, it’s brought “pain, sadness, frustration, and disappointment”.
Peru has its first female president — but feminists aren’t celebrating
Peru’s first female president’s legacy tarnished from the start.
