From viewing figures to sponsorship, the women’s game is growing rapidly – with the FIFA Women’s World Cup this summer highlighting the growth in the global game.

Joe Myers 26 Jun 2019

Middle East and North Africa

Selling sketches and clothes, Libyan women set up businesses against the odds

Cumulative inflation over the last four years has seen real incomes lose more than half of their purchasing power, and the government effectively devalued the dinar last September

Reuters Staff · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 26 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

'Those you never see': Paris photo series reclaims women's bodies

Women's rights and art charities commissioned six female refugee artists from Afghanistan to Iran to highlight the subjugation of women for the exhibition.

Zoe Tabary · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 26 Jun 2019

Gender Parity

U.N. labour body adopts #MeToo pact against violence at work

The influence of the #MeToo movement continues as the United Nations has implemented a treaty to prevent workplace violence and harassment.

Reuters Staff · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 25 Jun 2019

United States

The U.S. has named its first ever Native American woman poet laureate

The job of U.S. poet laureate is raising national appreciation of reading and writing poetry, and they often launch projects to expand the audience for poetry

Ellen Wulfhorst · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 25 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

Widows of suicide farmers will get land titles in Indian state

Widows often face difficulty in claiming their husband's property and in receiving government compensation and other benefits, activists said.

Rina Chandran · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 24 Jun 2019

Gender Parity

4 ways to empower women in the world's poorest countries

From trade to technology and the media, here's how women in the least developed countries can lift themselves up and transform their countries' future.

Deanna Ramsay and Violeta Gonzalez 24 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

‘I didn’t want to be homeless with a baby’: young women share their stories of homelessness

These are the stories of homeless women that highlight the many forms that homelessness and the attendant vulnerability can take.

Louise Carley Young, Aila Khan, and Jacki Montgomery · The Conversation 21 Jun 2019

Gender Parity

Economics needs to do more than attract women to solve its gender problem

Economist Carolina Alves explains why she set up the Diversifying and Decolonising Economics initiative - to make economics free of discrimination, including sexism, racism, and discrimin...

Eshe Nelson · Quartz 21 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

This discovery could lead to better prenatal vaccines

A newly identified cellular process could lead to safer and more effective vaccines that protect pregnant women and newborns from dangerous infections, researchers say.

Sarah Avery · Futurity 20 Jun 2019

Gender Parity

Georgian baywatch: First female lifeguards make a splash for equality

Georgia has passed anti-discrimination laws in an effort to move closer to the European Union, but gender stereotypes and inequality remain deeply rooted.

Umberto Bacchi · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 19 Jun 2019

Gender Parity

Accelerating gender parity in Globalization 4.0

Equality must become a reality within our lifetimes. The World Economic Forum is helping drive two approaches towards closing the gender gap globally.

Saadia Zahidi 18 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

The world's richest countries are skimping on parental leave: UNICEF

Some of the wealthiest nations in the world provide little or no government-supported maternity or paternity leave for new parents, a United Nations report has said.

Kate Ryan · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 18 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

The punishment gap: how workplace mistakes hurt women and minorities most

In finance, medicine, politics and even in schools, women and minorities are more harshly reprimanded and face greater future consequences for their errors.

Abhishek Parajuli 18 Jun 2019

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How activists are bringing gender equality to the Formula 1 racetrack

The Women’s World Cup's hot summer: here's how much the female game has changed

Selling sketches and clothes, Libyan women set up businesses against the odds

'Those you never see': Paris photo series reclaims women's bodies

U.N. labour body adopts #MeToo pact against violence at work

The U.S. has named its first ever Native American woman poet laureate

Widows of suicide farmers will get land titles in Indian state

4 ways to empower women in the world's poorest countries

‘I didn’t want to be homeless with a baby’: young women share their stories of homelessness

Economics needs to do more than attract women to solve its gender problem

This discovery could lead to better prenatal vaccines

Georgian baywatch: First female lifeguards make a splash for equality

Accelerating gender parity in Globalization 4.0

The world's richest countries are skimping on parental leave: UNICEF

The punishment gap: how workplace mistakes hurt women and minorities most

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