By Amy VanderZanden, special to Humanosphere One of the international community’s primary anti-poverty and pro-equity goals has been to increase…
Clinical reproductive health services provided to women in India’s Bihar state – where few use family planning resources – are…
Advocates and leaders from around the world are at the United Nations in New York City to press for equal…
Going to school is becoming an increasingly dangerous proposition for girls around the world. Schools in at least 70 countries experienced…
(Copenhagen, Denmark) The campaigns that are meant to improve the lives of women and girls are distorting the way that…
Stella Nyanzi Stella Nyanzi is an anthropologist who studies gender and sexuality issues in Uganda, at Makerere University in Kampala.…
Gates Foundation The gap between men and women in some African countries is easily seen in agriculture. Male-managed farm plots…
Harvard’s venerated and brotastic MBA program quietly decided to become more female friendly to both students and faculty. Men tended…
The third Women Deliver conference is a gigantic convening that scoops together young people, clinicians, heads of state, donors, and women’s rights activists from all across the world with its giant conference-y arms. The meeting opens Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur and runs for three days. It is organized by a group of the same name, a global maternal health advocacy organization based in New York.
The Guardian often has some very cool, informative online graphics. Here’s another one — an interactive map that shows the…