“The latest FAO report quantifies the enormous opportunity right in front of us: if we can close the gender gap in farm productivity, we could achieve a trillion dollar increase in global GDP, and a reduction of food insecurity for 45 million people globally.”
—USAID Deputy Administrator, Isobel Coleman, Speaking at the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate Summit, May 2023
Patients who were treated by female physicians in hospital settings…were 4% less likely to die, and were 5% less likely to need to return to the hospital within 30 days.
—JAMA Health Forum
The driving force behind Black Twitter is Black women.
— Nielsen
A Study that tracked reproduction rates—following the free distribution of birth control to teens—resulted in ~72% fewer abortions.
— Science News
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Spain’s Congress has outlawed catcalling as part of a raft of legislative changes aimed at boosting women’s sexual rights
The Women’s and Men’s US Soccer teams will now be paid equally under the next union contracts with $22 million in back pay for the women
Citing the untapped potential of such movements and calling them ‘powerhouses for social change,’ the authors suggest five effective ways donors can support them
More and more companies are answering the call to provide period leave as an employee perk
Members of the all-female skate crew ImillaSkate in Cochabamba, Bolivia, skate in the traditional polleras skirts worn by the Indigenous Aymara and Quechua women
Scroll through the @womenintrucking Instagram feed and you’ll inevitably stumble on Clare and her hashtag, #wheresclare
The House Bill called the CROWN Act would bar discrimination against hairstyles + make State laws uniform against this form of bias
Judaline Cassidy has been solving plumbing problems for more than 25 years, but now as the founder of Tools & Tiaras she’s on a mission to teach others how to take on jobs themselves.
Emilia Schneider is part of the new generation of young people who come to the Chilean democratic institutions from social movements. She is a member of the Frente Amplio coalition of President Gabriel Boric
The provocative garment challenges the male gaze—even in circumstances that invite you to look
The Interior Department is asking tribes for help finding new names for mountains, rivers and other landmarks that include the offensive term “squaw”
International Women’s Day. Like Black History Month and LGBTQ+ Pride, it’s a popular holiday for corporate hypocrites.
A German feminist art group has revealed a vulva-shaped spaceship in order to restore gender equality to the cosmos.
Unless advocacy efforts for women's rights have an intersectional interest, they're not inclusively feminist
Since 2009, with German at the helm, UCF College of Medicine has graduated 847 physicians — 417 of them were women. “It is not something every medical school does.”
The U.S. is the only industrialized country without a national paid family leave policy. The #showusyourleave campaign hopes to change that
As a young woman, I’ve been surrounded by porn my whole life. It’s shaped the way I see myself, in and out of the bedroom
Beyond embracing ‘body positivity’’ as a brand move, smart brands are listening, researching + innovating for our (very) specific needs + dollars
With the exit of Pixar's longtime CCO John Lasseter, under a cloud of sexual misconduct allegations + a Vanity Fair article was published detailing the studio's boys-club legacy, does this signal that things will be different?
These wins for women’s sports and players need to be part of the equity conversation.
“We are proud that players can confidently enter the 10th season of the National Women’s Soccer League in a better position than ever before.”
Last year, the number of Black women leading American law schools reached a high of 28—21 of them were appointed dean for the first time within the last four years.
According to recent Pew Research: a larger share of women (46%) than men (34%) report often feeling the desire to help those suffering
The chocolate characters are getting new footwear to promote inclusivity……….
A pretty solid reason to stop overlooking + diminishing women in the profession.
S&P Global analysis shows that disparities in opportunities for Black women in America carry a significant cost for the economy overall.
With the supply chain seriously broken in this pandemic economy, Washington is recruiting women to fill the many vacancies in the trucking industry.
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