Economy

In India, microfinance is destroying women’s lives

Microfinance promised women’s empowerment. But in West Bengal, where the practice has grown exponentially in the past decade, women are dying, disappearing, and getting stuck in endless cycles of debt

They’re feeding Bangkok. Now, war in Iran means they can barely afford to feed themselves

The US attack on Iran and the resulting blockage of the Strait of Hormuz have sent fuel prices soaring and disrupted economies around the world. In Thailand, Fuller follows the women street vendors struggling to stay afloat as the cost of doing business rises

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

The unbalanced sheet: What it costs to be a woman

Fuller's fourth edition focuses on the human costs of a global economy not designed to work for people or planet – and finds alternative visions

Homelessness Spikes Among California Women

Data shows 60,000 unhoused women in the state, among them domestic violence survivors, pregnant women and mothers

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

“This is ours” – Somaliland women smell success as frankincense business takes off

Somaliland’s female frankincense workers have set up their own cooperative to take back control after years of low pay and harsh conditions