Analysis
Women’s financial inclusion: What the data does – and doesn’t – reveal
For our Cost of Living edition, editor Carlotta Dotto breaks down where we looked for data and what we learned about unpaid care work, childcare, pensions and statistical blind spots
Women in the United States are poorer by design
In the US, wealth reflects whose work is valued. That women are on the losing end of our economic system is no accident, writes sociologist Anna Malaika Tubbs
‘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.
The Amazon’s collapse is uprooting a generation of Indigenous women
Indigenous women in Brazil’s Amazon are facing escalating violence linked to environmental crimes and are being forced to leave their homes.
Misinformation on social media about the pill’s side effects leading to falling use and rising distrust
Across the UK, more people are ditching the contraceptive pill. Viral misinformation that plays into real anxieties or stokes fear is part of the reason why.
Everyone agrees something needs to be done about low birth rates. The question is will anything work?
Discover more: The Fuller Project answers your top five population questions Bri Adams always imagined she would have three children, just like her parents did. At 33, she has a son, age three, and a daughter, one and a half. Though Adams
Can South Korean politics make way for it’s ‘Light Stick Revolutionaries?’
Korean women have helped topple governments but still have trouble gaining political office.
AI is transforming the fight against trafficking. Some advocates are raising the alarm
New technology is transforming the fight against trafficking
Kenya’s Empty Promises on Protecting Women
The country has demanded an end to misogynist violence—and the government has failed to deliver
A Trump Victory Could Reinvigorate Global Anti-abortion Pact
In this year’s U.S. election, abortion is also a top foreign-policy issue
A Conservative Blueprint Calls for More Abortion Surveillance
Republicans in Congress are poised to try to force all 50 states to report on abortions and miscarriages in ways never required before
This Election, It’s Women’s Choice
Polls showing that inflation will be the dominant issue in the upcoming election miss the potency of women’s anger over abortion—and their massive influence within the electorate
How the latest abortion case in front of SCOTUS worries maternity-care advocates
In the latest abortion case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Idaho argues to overturn decades-old emergency law that treats millions of pregnant patients every year
New federal report calls out clinical trials for excluding pregnant women
A new report from the influential National Academies of Sciences pushes back on the unspoken rule in medical research that pregnant and breastfeeding women are too vulnerable and risky to include in clinical trials
Why Heart Disease Research Still Favors Men
Women are neglected by medical research, especially when it comes to heart disease
