Gender Equality and Economic Benefits
For years, many in the development community have focused primarily on trying to improve girls' and women's capabilities — making them more educated, healthier, and better...
The Future of Humanitarian Workers after COVID19
"Where have you been recently" is a common question during small talk in the hallways of international organizations For a community of professionals who see travel as...
Schools out forever? Supporting resilient learning in the face of COVID-19
To contain the continuous spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen, at the latest count, 188 countries taking the unprecedented action of closing their nation’s...
How NGOs’ leaders can fight Coronavirus
We all have a role to play in preventing the spread of the #Coronavirus (COVID-19) The advice from health experts has been clear: social distancing, washing our hands with soap...
Male Contraceptives and Stereotypes: Breaking the Jinx for Improved Sexual Reproductive Health
Men play a critical role directly or indirectly, positively or negatively on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights of women and children Contraceptive methods for a long time have a...
Women also crave what men want— power and freedom
Girls are made of sugar and spice, and everything nice That nursery rhyme should have ended at “sugar and spice” because women are people first, not an undifferentiated mass...
Gender and the Coronavirus Epidemic
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) snakes its way around the world, closing borders, cancelling events, shutting down offices, suspending classes, and barricading cities Reading about...
How Will COVID-19 Affect Women and Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?
Policymakers should be thinking—and worried—about how COVID-19 is expected to disproportionately affect women and girls Gender inequality can come into even starker focus in...
Are Millennials Redefining Gender Roles?
Videos have broken the internet for the past few months on women proposing to men for their hand in marriage after years of waiting without the man proposing Whether they are...
Feminism Claims to Represent All Women. So Why Does It Ignore So Many of Them?
My first marriage ended in divorce, and afterwards, I was on food stamps, I had a state-funded medical card that gave me and my son access to medical care, and I was living in...
