Labor
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
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
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
“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
‘We have to fight back.’ Afghan women are losing their hard-won right to work under the Taliban
“We go to work with fear.” From travel restrictions to a new order to cover their faces in public, Afghan women face growing challenges to their hard-won right to work
