Women and girls do three times the amount of unpaid care work and housework than men and boys, according to UN Women. But that’s just the first inequity. There’s another, hidden one, that involves climate change and environmental degradation.
This is the last in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”
In the last decade, an estimated 15,000 women across the globe have been accused of abducting their own children. They are all foreigners who tried to relocate with their children — oftentimes back to their home countries — but the other parent disagreed. Not all countries criminalize abduction, but the repercussions for the child’s custody are far-reaching.
In early January, the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, made history when a young, diverse, all-women team was sworn into seven city council seats.
By the end of the first month of our “relationship,” my life had changed.
Mental health challenges are associated with the effects of climate change, such as increasing temperatures, trauma from extreme events, and loss of livelihoods and culture. It’s not much of a leap to realize that women are going to face violence from men in such a pressure cooker.
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”
Most people probably don’t spend their days imagining what it’s like to be other people, but should we?
Protests in response to Hernández’s murder were carried out in more than 70 cities in Brazil and in other parts of the world after her death.
The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling didn’t only impact me as a person who could get pregnant but also because reproductive rights were central to my existence.
The global attention of the #MeToo movement prompted the aid sector to acknowledge its own #AidToo crisis, but, half a decade later, the spotlight has dimmed, and sadly, the aid sector has seen minimal substantive changes.
A crucial but less discussed aspect is the role of democratic freedoms — free speech, assembly, and access to information — in shaping climate justice and solutions.
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