The Middle East Has a ‘Sextortion’ Problem
The region’s social stigmas are deterring women from reporting online sexual abuse
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How motherhood spurred one New Yorker to take on the fossil fuel industry
Marlena Fontes is a climate activist and mother who wants to take down the fossil fuel industry
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India has made remarkable progress cutting maternal deaths. Could climate change pose a threat?
Severe seasonal water shortages are forcing hospitals in India to close their doors to women in labor, raising fears that maternal health gains could be threatened
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Can the Climate Tech Revolution Avoid Leaving Women Behind?
Tech is dominated by men. Only a small percentage of solar and wind workers are female – but there are places where women shine in the clean tech world
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Sex Matters: Medical Research Overlooks Women
Scientists still ignore sex differences in testing new treatments
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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 to be automated out of a job
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Silicon Valley VCs Invest Almost Exclusively in Companies Founded by Men. Could a new California law change that?
California would become the first state to require venture capital firms disclose the race and gender of the founders of the companies they fund, under a bill currently awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature
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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 are effectively subsidizing trillions of dollars in global health
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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
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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
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She escaped her husband’s physical violence – but economic ties kept them connected for years
The financial system has become a new frontier in the fight against intimate partner violence
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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 intimidating many sexual assault victims in the country into silence, women’s rights advocates war
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Do Gender Quotas in Elections Work?
Sierra Leone is about to become the latest country to find out
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‘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
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Will California crack down on cash apps that trap women in debt?
Cash advance apps promise women financial freedom, but often leave them trapped in a cycle of debt
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