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Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students Keiley Flores, 13, Andrea Ramos, 10, and Alexander Ramos, 8, work on school-issued computers with unreliable internet connectivity, as their mother Anely Solis, 32, tries to connect them to her mobile hotspot, during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at their home in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

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How mothers spend their time

Lauren Bauer and Fred Dews

Friday, May 7, 2021

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: COVID-19 and women’s labor, the care economy, and more

Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Saudi women work at a dates packaging factory in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, September 10, 2020. Picture taken September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri

Future Development

The spectacular surge of the Saudi female labor force

Sofia Gomez Tamayo, Johannes Koettl, and Nayib Rivera

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks on American Economic Recovery during a speech at Guilford Technical Community College in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S., April 19, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Gender

Congress needs gender parity quotas

Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Reports

Jerome H. Powell, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs during the Quarterly CARES Act Report to Congress on Capitol Hill.

Financial Regulation

Diversity within the Federal Reserve System

Peter Conti-Brown and Kaleb Nygaard

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

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Gender-based violence in primary schools: Jamaica

Dasmine Kennedy

Friday, January 22, 2021

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A new green learning agenda: Approaches to quality education for climate action

Christina Kwauk and Olivia Casey

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

General view of a World Trade Organization ministerial meeting, on the sidelines of the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Essay

Women at the top of the world, still not at the center: A new network analysis discovery

Tuugi Chuluun and Kevin L. Young

Monday, December 21, 2020

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Gender-based violence in primary schools: Kenya

Mary Otieno

Friday, December 18, 2020

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Inspiring the next generation of women leaders

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Monday, March 8, 2021

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA- Community health workers operate a mobile health bus in Durban, South Africa on April 16, 2020. Health Minister Zikalala officially launched the mass detection campaign for Covid-19 coronavirus, going door to door all households in the country. (NO RESALE)

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5 ways women are driving Africa’s transformation and contributing to a global reset

Winnie Byanyima and Caroline Kende-Robb

Friday, March 5, 2021

A girl reacts as she carries a bucket with laundry on her head while heading home as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Yoff neighbourhood, Dakar, Senegal January 26, 2021. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Africa in Focus

Putting girls at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic response in Africa

Mamta Murthi

Friday, March 5, 2021

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti.- In the April 24, 2020 file photo, children in Haiti try to educate themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The socioeconomic effects of the coronavirus pandemic could set back "decades" the progress made in the education of girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean, many of which may "never return to the classroom", as it has warned this Tuesday, International Plan. The NGO estimates that currently some 500 million children and young people around the world are not receiving distance education, "something that is having devastating consequences in Latin America and the Caribbean", where more than 95 percent of minors have remained outside of classrooms without many of them being able to follow classes online.

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What’s the state of global girls’ education during COVID?

Christina Kwauk and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 9, 2020

Yellow roses signified you were for giving women the right to vote in 1920. They were plentiful Tuesday as it was the 100th anniversary of the Tennessee House of Representatives casting a vote that ratified the 19th Amendment (Tennessee was the state that got the amendment to its required threshold) a reenactment was held on the House floor of the vote in Nashville, Tenn. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020,

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Reflections on gender equality and the 19th Amendment at 100

Stephanie Aaronson, Emily Cleffi-Tristani, Christina Kwauk, Robin J. Lewis, Amy Liu, Molly E. Reynolds, Isabel V. Sawhill, and Morgan Welch

Friday, August 21, 2020

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.

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