Women’s Work
The Future Challenges team works together to choose each topic that we discuss. We gather proposals from our network, select a general topic from these proposals, draft several important questions, and then vote together on the final question. This content package deals with Women’s Work and International Women’s Day. Let’s start with a look at some pictures that were taken by our bloggers.
Our team voted for the following question:
One of the most widely-heralded developments of recent decades has been the growing participation of women in the workforce. In the developing world, some research suggests that this can be one of the strongest drivers of economic growth. In the developed world, it is an increasing necessity as populations shrink and age. These are important components of women’s economic contributions worldwide, but do they capture the most important elements? What is gained – and what, if anything, is lost – as women assume an ever-larger share of a country’s economic burden?
Future Challenges authors are in 65 countries in the developed and the developing world. Take your pick from the Local Views on the right, and explore the ways in which writers from around the world think about this critical issue.
Tags: demographic change, demographics, equality, gender, International Women's Day, labour force, labour market, women, workforce
Tom Fries
Most recent Local Views on ‘Women's work’
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Tackling Nigeria’s Beast of Child Marriages
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
on July 14, 2016. In March, social media woke up to a really startling story: a young girl, a 13-year-old child that had been kidnapped from Bayelsa, taken to Kano state, rechristened Aisha in an apparent conversion to Islam, and married off to a young man. The girl? Ese Oruru. The man? Yunusa Dahiru, […]
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Ani Choying Drolma: Breaking stereotypes
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
on December 16, 2014. Gifted with a soulful voice, Ani Choying Drolma widely known as the Singing Nun travels the world, performing live shows of modern spiritual songs. These are mainly Buddhist chants, prayers and inspirational songs about compassion, hope and sharing in Nepali and Tibetan languages. It helps her raise funds for her […]
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Cultivable Land Creating Opportunities for Pakistani Women
Written by Shaikh Rafia
on August 3, 2014. Sindh government initiated a first-of-its-kind pilot project in 2008 to distribute 91,000 hectares of cultivable state land to thousands of poor and landless peasants, with specific focus on women. The Province of Sindh has traditionally been a patriarchal society mainly sustained by agriculture. While women have always played a vital […]
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Necessary Responsibility: Understanding Uterine Prolapse in Nepal
Written by Slok
on April 1, 2014. Reports exposing the lack of human rights in Nepal are furiously common. The ubiquitous nature of deprivation of human dignity makes immune the anger, the indignation. Reports are made, read, talked about for a week and discarded. None but a select few keep the conversation alive; and those who pin […]
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Bridging the Gender Pay Gap in Texas
Written by Samuel Chapman
on December 13, 2013. The gender pay gap has long been an issue in the United States. It is often overshadowed by other gender-related issues and can drop into the political background as issues like abortion take center stage. It’s been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into […]
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Malala Under Attack Again – This Time by Taliban 2.0
Written by M. Farhan Janjua
on November 8, 2013. By reading this title, you might be wondering what in God’s name I mean by “Taliban 2.0.” Well, they are the people among us who pretend to be progressive but leave no stone unturned when it comes to being apologists for the very ideology Taliban carry out. You see, I […]
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Closing the gender gap to stop women’s drift into poverty
Written by AylinMatle
on October 16, 2013. Although Germany is one of the most advanced and developed countries in the world, the financial and economic situation of women in Germany is not the best when compared to that of women in other Western countries. This disparity is especially striking when you consider Germany’s political leadership, headed as […]
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The Virtues of Gender in Istmo de Tehuantepec
Written by Kapell
on September 9, 2013. Man, Woman, and Muxe. In the region of the Mexican Istmo de Tehuantepec, women’s strong role in society has led to a quite peculiar structure which includes a “third gender”. Neither a man, nor a woman, Muxe is the name given by the Zapotecos to males assuming the social roles, […]
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Empowerment and Endangerment of Female Labourers
Written by thesydneyglobalist
on August 30, 2013. Global scrutiny of the substandard working conditions of textile workers in Bangladesh’s garment factories intensified significantly following the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory, which is now considered to be one of the world’s worst industrial accidents. Much discussion has centred upon the industry’s exploitative practices that particularly impact […]
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A Step Ahead and Two Behind – The Story of Chilean Women
Written by Blanca Vera
on August 22, 2013. 2013 is election year in Chile. This November we will elect our new president – a female president. Yes! the presidential election is going to be fought between two very prominent politicians and both of them are women – Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet from the right wing alliance and Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria from […]
