Chart of the Day: What Policy Makers Don’t Know About the Data They Need to Achieve Gender Equality By 2030A new survey shows big gaps in what policy makers in key countries know about achieving gender equality by 2030–a...
Map of the Day: Where Abortions are Most Dangerous Around the World45% of all abortions are around the world are “unsafe” according to a new study by the World Health Organization...
Don’t “Empower” Women To Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Do This InsteadWhile the political activities at the United Nations take center-stage during this General Assembly week in New York, a little...
New Research Finds a Link Between the Cost of Getting Married and the Outbreak Violent ConflictThe high price of getting married can lead young men to take up arms. That is the conclusion of a...
Countries are Getting Rid of their “Marry the Rapist” LawsLebanon recently became the latest Arab state to repeal laws on the books that allowed rapists to escape punishment…if they...
What The Saga of the Afghanistan Girls Robotics Team Can Teach Us About Girls Education Worldwide16 years ago, a girls’ robotics team from Afghanistan could not even exist. During the brutal rule of the Taliban, Afghan...
Every day 41,000 girls are married under the age of 18. A new World Bank report shows the economic impact of this problemCan you imagine what it would be like to be married at the age of 15? Married before you have...
A new UN report just calculated the percentage of women who can’t find work because of sexismDo women participate in the workforce at the same rate as men? No, they don’t. Globally, the workforce participation rate...
This What a Feminist Foreign Policy Looks LikeAmerica’s neighbors to the north are mounting an experiment. Last week, Canada announced its “first feminist international-assistance policy,” following comprehensive...