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From Abenomics to Womenomics: Working Women and Japan’s Economic Revival

September 25, 2013

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The bottom line is, the women's situation [in Japan] is not going to improve until you address more fundamental equity issues.

September 10, 2013, Mireya Solís, Los Angeles Times

Gender and Livelihoods among Internally Displaced Persons in Mindanao, Philippines

July 2013, Rufa Cagoco-Guiam

Internally Displaced Women: Record Number, Unresolved Challenges

May 29, 2013, Megan Bradley

Livelihoods, Gender and Displacement in Côte d’Ivoire

April 2013, Eric Levron

The Case for Women’s Rights in Post-Uprising Egypt

April 25, 2013, Mirette F. Mabrouk

In Disaster Risk Management, A Gender-Sensitive Approach is Smart

April 20, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

Recurring Disasters: Are We Learning Lessons?

April 10, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

Women in a Changing Middle East: An Address by Under Secretary of State Tara Sonenshine

April 4, 2013

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Protecting Mogadishu’s Internally Displaced Persons: Past Failures, Future Challenges

March 20, 2013

International Women’s Day in India and Around the World: Progress and Strategies for Action

March 8, 2013, Urvashi Sahni and Xanthe Ackerman

Syria's Unseen Crisis: Displaced Women Face Rape, Insecurity, Poverty

March 8, 2013, Megan Bradley

The Year of Recurring Disasters: A Review of Natural Disasters in 2012

March 2013, Elizabeth Ferris, Daniel Petz and Chareen Stark

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Disaster Risk Management: A Gender-Sensitive Approach is a Smart Approach

March 2013, Elizabeth Ferris, Daniel Petz and Chareen Stark

An Indictment of the New Somali Government: Displaced Woman and Journalist Jailed for Raising Rape Charges

February 7, 2013, Megan Bradley

Can Kerry Fill Clinton’s Shoes?

February 4, 2013, Tamara Cofman Wittes

The U.S. Should Take a Gradual Approach to Women in Combat

January 25, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

India’s Protests as a Social "Stress Test"

December 28, 2012, Raj M. Desai and Shareen Joshi

A Challenge for Female Marines

November 12, 2012, Michael E. O'Hanlon

It's pretty clear that at the last minute, a lot of women made a decision that Obama really understood what their economic concerns were. Yes, they want control over their own body...but decisions over health care can limit their ability to control economics as well.

November 9, 2012, Elisabeth Jacobs, CBS News

Women After the Arab Awakening: Making Change

October 25, 2012

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The Uncomfortable Truth About American Wages

October 23, 2012, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

Is Inclusive Growth in Africa Possible When Women are Missing at the “Table of Men”?

October 16, 2012, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Music and Art in a Changing Pakistan

October 11, 2012

I have no doubt the next president will decide what happens to Roe v. Wade by his appointments to the Supreme Court.

October 3, 2012, Elisabeth Jacobs, Glamour