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Look at the timeline of events in the Arab Spring and you will see that women have played a huge role in its development. Yet the contribution women make to the economy in the Arab world cannot be examined outside the framework of the political and social context. Many reports […]

As a Latin American woman immigrating to the USA, accepting new gender norms has not been as liberating as I though it would be.

The third in a series of Future Challenges Readers is published! “Help Wanted” covers the topic of unemployment, a plague sickening many of the world’s largest economies. The subject requires us to think about demographic change (Who should be working? For how long?), education (How do we train a workforce that […]

Are Australian undergraduates looking forward to getting employed when they graduate, or are they concerned about prospects in Australia? “Go to university,” they said. “It’ll be fun,” they said… The effects of the GFC linger even in our isolated corner of the world. While older Australian workers grip tightly to […]

This article was originally drafted by Shree Ravindranath and Intellecap for the newsletter “Searchlight South Asia” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Srinagar, the summer capital of the mountainous state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is called the “Kashmiri Venice.” It is bifurcated by the meandering […]