Gender

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Up Front

Class Notes: Economic activity amid COVID-19, homeownership and wealth, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner leads a chant at a protest and candlelight vigil outside the 120th police precinct in the Staten Island borough of New York City, January 15, 2015. Protests were organized to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr's birthday and have been ongoing in New York since last year's shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner's chokehold death in Staten Island, New York. Both deaths were at the hands of local police forces and in both instances, charges were not laid for the deaths. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

How We Rise

The collateral consequences of state-sanctioned police violence for women

Alyasah Ali Sewell and Rashawn Ray

Thursday, June 11, 2020

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Up Front

Class Notes: Millennial wealth accumulation, salary history bans, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Coronavirus Infodemic

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

How COVID-19 is amplifying gender inequality in India

Monday, May 18, 2020

Reports

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) poses for a selfie with House Democratic women of the 116th Congress

Essay

100 years on, politics is where the U.S. lags the most on gender equality

Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Female construction worker and doctor

Essay

The gender revolution is stalling—what would reinvigorate it?

Paula England, Andrew Levine, and Emma Mishel

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Condolleeza Rice and Alice Rivlin

Essay

The president’s advisors: An analysis of women on the president’s “A Team”

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Workers at Cain-Sloan Co downtown store wrapping Christmas gifts for holiday shoppers Dec 13, 1979

Essay

Women’s work boosts middle class incomes but creates a family time squeeze that needs to be eased

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Women in the military

Essay

Women warriors: The ongoing story of integrating and diversifying the American armed forces

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Blog Posts

Arielle Sadia, a 16 years old student in Odienné, in the Northwest of Côte d'Ivoire. During the coronacrisis schools are closed. But theimath teacher was reluctant and took the initiative to teach with a limited group of students twice a week for two hours.They respect the social distance and wear a mask during classes. "I find it a dood initiative because I can not just sit and wait at home doing nothing. I prefer to come to school. I encourage the youth to study even more now during this crisis. My dream is to become an engineer. " says the young girl and first of her class. For every child, education.

Education Plus Development

5 actions to help bring the most marginalized girls back to school after COVID-19

Robert Jenkins and Rebecca Winthrop

Friday, May 15, 2020

A girl sits after receiving goods from volunteers during food and water distribution to the underprivileged and homeless, as Ghana enforces a partial lockdown in Accra and Kumasi in efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Accra, Ghana. April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Africa in Focus

Putting women and girls’ safety first in Africa’s response to COVID-19

Chuku Chuku, Adamon Mukasa, and Yasin Yenice

Friday, May 8, 2020

A female Jordanian superhero

Education Plus Development

Recognizing women’s important role in Jordan’s COVID-19 response

Mayyada Abu Jaber

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

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Events

The gender and racial diversity of the federal government’s economists

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Waiting for an equal world: Gender in the Northeast

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Panel Discussion | Teenage girls in India: Aspirations and reality

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Related Books

Women in Business and Management

By International Labor Office

2015

Closing the Gender Gap

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD

2013

Jacketed Women

Edited by Jane Bennett and Charmaine Pereira

2013

Experts

Ana Revenga

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Multimedia

For the fourth year in a row, Women's Strike NYC will be out in the streets in a gathering at Washington Square Park on March 8, 2020 reclaiming the anti-capitalist roots of International Working Women's Day and highlighting some of the major struggles at the crossroads of feminist and labor organizing identified by the March 8th Coalition. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Gender equality, unpaid work, and women’s suffrage

Stephanie Aaronson, Molly Kinder, and Isabel V. Sawhill

Friday, May 15, 2020

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Up Front

Assessing gender in the North East

Monday, September 2, 2019

Names of missing Chibok school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgency five years ago are displayed during the 5th year anniversary of their abduction, in Abuja, Nigeria April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC19E45DE390

Africa in Focus

Beneath the Tamarind Tree: Nigeria and the resilience of the Chibok Girls

Christina Golubski

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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