Gender

Children attend lessons at the evening school in Ouakam neighbourhood, Dakar, Senegal January 16, 2019. Picture taken January 16, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC1AD6488A90

Africa in focus

African states’ varying progress toward gender equality in education

Nirav Patel and Genevieve Jesse

Thursday, June 13, 2019

People work on their computers during a weekend Hackathon event in San Francisco, California, U.S. July 16, 2016. REUTERS/Gabrielle Lurie SEARCH "LURIE TECH" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1E2E809C80

TechTank

New Brookings report highlights potential sources of bias in algorithms

Jack Karsten

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Security guards stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis - RC120F4804E0

FixGov

Alabama’s abortion act is political theater

Richard Lempert

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

People queue up to vote during the state assembly election, in the town of Ayodhya, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

Up Front

What India’s 65 million ‘missing women’ mean for the state of its democracy

Geetika Dang and Prerna Sharma

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Reports

India

Difficult Dialogues: A compendium of contemporary essays on gender inequality in India

Shamika Ravi

Friday, March 8, 2019

Lucia Mayta, 43, and her daughter Luz Cecilia, 12, pose for a photograph inside their bodega in La Paz February 24, 2014. Lucia studied until the fourth grade of primary school, and knows how to read and write and do basic math. Lucia runs a bodega, and the family live in a back room. She hopes to build a house in the future. Luz Cecilia is in seventh grade and wants to be a singer. On March 8 activists around the globe celebrate International Women's Day, which dates back to the beginning of the 20th century and has been observed by the United Nations since 1975. The UN writes that it is an occasion to commemorate achievements in women's rights and to call for further change. Picture taken February 24, 2014. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 11 OF 32 FOR PACKAGE 'WOMEN'S DAY - MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS' TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'REUTERS MOTHERS DAUGHTERS' - GM1EA370T5701

Report

Empowering women entrepreneurs in developing countries

Eyerusalem Siba

Friday, February 15, 2019

Jan 3, 2019; Washington, DC, USA; Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D, MA) is sworn in by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a member of the 116th Congress on January 3, 2019 in Washington D.C. Mandatory Credit: Hannah Gaber-USA TODAY - 11935259

Campaigns & Elections

Black women are looking forward to the 2020 elections

Andre M. Perry

January 10, 2019

Kashmiri school girls react to the camera while walking back home after their class at Kanzalwan near the Line of Control in Gurez sector, 160 km (99 miles) north of Srinagar June 21, 2012. The Line of Control, or a military ceasefire line, divides India and Pakistan in Kashmir. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION) - GM1E86M04E001

Report

Mainstreaming gender equality and empowerment education in post-primary schools in India

Urvashi Sahni

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Report

Gender-sensitive pedagogy

Hawah Nabbuye

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Blog Posts

A girl uses her phone at Mao Live House during its last public concert night in central Beijing, China April 24, 2016. Mao Live House, a prominent live rock music venue in Beijing, shut its doors on the weekend, the latest closure to hit China's rock music scene. Owner Li Chi said the club, popular among fans of punk, metal and alternative rock since it opened nine years ago, was forced to close due to tighter rules on live performances. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj SEARCH "MAO LIVE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - S1BETBXEYAAB

Future Development

Mobile phones are key to economic development. Are women missing out?

Leora Klapper

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Boys react to the camera during their recess break in the middle of their academic day at a school in Mumbai August 10, 2010. The Right to Education Act that came into force has made free and compulsory education the right of every child between the age of 6 to 14 years old in India. UNESCO says the Act has brought the country closer to meeting its millennium development goals, with an estimated eight million out-of-school Indian children now having better access to education. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: EDUCATION) - GM1E68A1UHJ01

Education Plus Development

Teaching boys to examine gender in patriarchal societies

Urvashi Sahni

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Up Front

Teenage girls in India: Aspirations and reality

Geetika Dang

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

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Events

2019

Feb

Past Event

Panel Discussion | Teenage girls in India: Aspirations and reality

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

Girls' education research and policy symposium

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM EST

Tiffin Talks | Reducing crime against women: Are alcohol sale restrictions effective?

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Related Books

Closing the Gender Gap

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD

2013

Jacketed Women

Edited by Jane Bennett and Charmaine Pereira

2013

Sexed Pistols

Edited by Vanessa Farr, Henri Myrttinen, and Albrecht Schnabel

2009

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

Advancing women’s leadership around the world

Julia Gillard, Christina Kwauk, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Girls walk to school at the outskirts of Yangon

Podcast Episode

The women working to improve girls’ education

Dasmine Kennedy, Christina Kwauk, Armene Modi, María Cristina Osorio Vázquez, Damaris Seleina Parsitau, and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Maasai tribe elders and women gather for a forum organized by AMREF, and geared at sensitizing the elders and women towards an alternative rights of passage for young girls, that would stop female circumcision.

Education Plus Development

How young men can change the gender and social norms of the Maasai people to support girls’ education

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

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