Melinda Gates Picks Up the Torch for a Caring Economy
Want to stamp out poverty? Let’s first address the unequal distribution of under- and unpaid care work, which often falls on women’s shoulders.
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It’s Campaign Season, Ask Candidates About that New Child Care Bill
Child care for infants and toddlers is in short supply in most of the country. At the same time, providers lack training and are working long hours for low pay. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Global Goals Put Women at Heart of Poverty Battle
But how successful will the new U.N. framework be in raising global living standards? Enthusiasts put faith in technological innovations. Skeptics say the global economic system is inherently exploitive and unjust and needs a real overhaul.
Drugs and Abusive Father Drove Her Into Military Life
Like so many female veterans, Rhiannon Duncan suffered parental sexual abuse as a child. For three years, the Army offered a way out. But then she ran into problems that led to her discharge and the start of a very tough chapter. The first of two stories.
Donor Deaths in India Highlight Surrogacy Perils
Two women have died from causes tied to their role as egg donors in India’s booming market for artificial reproduction. Advocates are pressing the government to publicize health warnings and pass regulations.
Menstrual Hygiene Day Links Periods and Human Rights
Handling periods (or “menstrual hygiene management” as experts call it) isn’t the first thing one might associate with human rights. Yet the link between realization of rights for women and girls and menstrual hygiene management could not be clearer.
Minnesota OKs Workplace Bills; Asian LBT Targeted
Minnesota’s governor approved a package of bills aimed at improving conditions for women in the workplace. Also this week, a report shows that lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in some Asian countries are encountering abuse and discrimination without any protection of the state.
Refugee Women in South Sudan: ‘Stop the Killing’
Just a few months ago both these women led very different lives. But now they live side by side in a refugee camp and provide a glimpse of the human toll of the bloody conflict in the world’s youngest country.
Road to College Included Hitchhiking with Kids
Two young children and no car didn’t prevent Rita Henley Jensen from enrolling in Ohio State University. She caught a ride with a stranger and her family’s future was transformed, she says in this excerpt from the anthology “Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God.”
When You Shop, Try to Leave Out All the Slavery
As consumers, we shouldn’t need tragedies like last year’s factory collapse in Bangladesh to wake us up and realize that what we buy matters. Nomi, the group I cofounded, helps you join the positive ripple effect of women leaving sex traffic and forging better lives.
