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  Malala Yousufzai first gained recognition in 2008 at age 11 when she took to the Press Club in Peshawar against the Taliban banning girls’ education in the Swat valley. She soon started writing an anonymous blog for the BBC as Gul Makai, chronicling the feelings of a young girl […]

The high rate of violence and abuse against women in Fiji is having a negative impact on women’s ability to participate in economic life. Abuse is not just physical, it can also be emotional and financial. The financial abuse suffered by women in Fiji highlights a flaw in governance that […]

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 […]

Poverty and unemployment are chronic ailments that afflict much of South Africa’s scattered township population. These townships, known as shanty towns in much of the rest of the world, comprise a large percentage of the overall population of the country and therefore any conversation about South Africa’s future cannot be […]

In the conservative Muslim culture of Mali, women fulfill their traditional gender roles of raising children, tending the home and working on the family farm. However, increasing internal and external economic pressures are pushing them to find alternative means of income to supplement their household needs and even to reach […]