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The true cost of Myanmar's growing garment industry
Myanmar’s garment industry is set to rival China, but research shows that sexual harassment and violence in the workplace is hindering women’s opportunities and the industry itself.Joining the likes of...
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The South Korean government is reviewing its 1950s abortion ban
While women’s rights and anti-abortion activists in Ireland last week celebrated a new era of legalized abortion, leaders in another country are debating the future of its own laws.South Korea’s...
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Gender wealth gap costs the world $160 trillion
As world leaders gather for the G7 in Canada next week, they will face a conundrum: While economic growth remains steady in the developed world, inequality is rising. A new report from the World Bank...
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Why Japan is paying single mothers to move to the countryside
Tomoko Shinkai is on the front lines of Japan’s demographic decline. She works for the small city of Hamada, and it’s her job to get people to move there. It’s hard to imagine a better cheerleader for...
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In a Puerto Rico neighborhood still waiting for power, this community kitchen...
On a hilltop in eastern Puerto Rico’s Humacao municipality, a handful of women bustled around pans of sizzling oil and fragrant pots of stew. They spooned heaping piles of rice, chicken, chickpeas,...
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Sexism and the #MeToo movement inspired this 'sassy' singer
Sassafrass. It's what musician Tami Neilson defines as "a sassy person who speaks her mind." It's also the title of her new album, "Sassafrass!"The songs are full of spice and vigor but there's also a...
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Mexican women drivers’ collective aims to eliminate risks to drivers, passengers
Drumming her fingers on the steering wheel, Patricia Torres Matus slows her car to a halt on a Tuxtla Gutiérrez street crowded with vehicles and pedestrians. She scans the busy stretch through her...
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The 'menstrual awakening': Shattering the period stigma
For millions of women worldwide, menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. Many are told not to discuss it in public, to hide their tampons and sanitary pads. The stigma is universal, rendering women...
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Sweden's #Teknisktfel movement exposes sexual harassment in the tech industry
When the callout was published on Nov. 19, 2017, all kinds of stories about sexual harassment on the job immediately began rolling in.There were the technicians who would send porn to female colleagues...
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Founder of Muslim Girl magazine now writes fiction inspired by human rights,...
The shelves lining Ausma Zehanat Khan’s study hold her biography in books.There's the leather-bound set of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle titles that her father, himself more inclined to poetry, gave her when...
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In northern Uganda, these women move past insurgency by baking cakes
In Gulu Town, in northern Uganda, a group of women is gathered on a terrace, baking cakes and chatting about everything under the sun — the quality of butter, weddings and the trauma of conflict....
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A Dutch brothel where women work for themselves
From purple and red walls to safes in every room, just about everything at the My Red Light brothel has been designed with input from the women who work there.It’s also almost completely run by former...
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Astronaut Sally K. Ride's legacy — encouraging young women to embrace science...
On June 18, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to launch into space, riding the Space Shuttle STS-7 flight with four other crew members. Only five years earlier, in 1978,...
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What India's first trans women-led dance troupe wants people to know
On a quiet, spring evening, when many people in Mumbai are rushing to catch the first bus or train home after work, Paras Thakur tears her way through the crowds. She makes a two-hour journey during...
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How far would you go to have a biological child?
Surrogacy is a multimillion-dollar, global industry. People who face infertility have tough choices when it comes to deciding whether to keep trying to get pregnant via infertility treatments like in...
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Scientist Pajau Vangay used to make 'pretty code.' Now, she studies guts.
Pajau Vangay strides with purpose through a University of Minnesota science laboratory wearing a white lab coat and purple, synthetic gloves. She has a big experiment planned for tomorrow and is...
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This Honduras graffiti artist duo spreads feminist messages
On a warm, summer day, graffiti artists Mayki Graff Ortega and Suam Fonseca sit along a busy street in northeastern Tegucigalpa, Honduras’ capital. Their 2015 mural of the Mirabal sisters on a nearby...
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This cover of The Beatles''Drive My Car' celebrates Saudi women's new right...
Recently, the comedian James Corden featured the legendary musician Paul McCartney on his popular Late Late Show segment, "Carpool Karaoke."The recurring segment features famous musicians joining...
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Inside the New Zealand kitchen empowering women refugees
Government discussion surrounding refugees oftentimes revolves around costs and quotas; the human element can get lost in the conversation. In order to add a personal touch to refugees' experiences in...
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In Ukraine, surrogacy is legal, but some ask if it's exploitation
"We were never not trying," said Bianca Smith, 43, about all the years she and her husband, Vinny Smith, spent trying to have a baby.While sitting in her air-conditioned condo in South Pasadena,...
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