Gender

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.

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,

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.

Gender equality, unpaid work, and women’s suffrage

Stephanie Aaronson, Molly Kinder, and Isabel V. Sawhill

Friday, May 15, 2020

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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

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

Christina Golubski

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Waiting for an equal world: Gender in the Northeast

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Advancing women’s leadership around the world

Julia Gillard, Christina Kwauk, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Girls' education research and policy symposium

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM EST

Girls walk to school at the outskirts of Yangon

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.

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