The Better Half
Helping Women Help the World January 1, 2010 Isobel Coleman Efforts to provide the world's women with economic and political power are more than just a worthy moral crusade: they represent perhaps the...
View ArticleThe Global Glass Ceiling
Why Empowering Women Is Good for Business May 1, 2010 Isobel Coleman Summary: Governments and international organizations recognize that empowering women in the developing world is a catalyst for...
View ArticleFlight of the Valkyries?
What Gender Does and Doesn’t Tell Us About Operation Odyssey Dawn March 28, 2011 Charli Carpenter Summary: Commentators are falling over themselves to explain the “gender divide” among Obama’s staff....
View ArticleRape Reporting During War
Why the Numbers Don't Mean What You Think They Do August 1, 2011 Amber Peterman, Dara Kay Cohen, Tia Palermo, and Amelia Hoover Green Summary: Although cases of sexual violence have been undercounted...
View ArticleWhy Granting Saudi Women the Vote Is An Empty Gesture
Riyadh's Half-Measures Toward Equality October 13, 2011 Caryle Murphy Summary: Riyadh's granting women the right to vote is a prime example of how it intends to respond to calls for political reform:...
View ArticleHow Egypt's Revolution Has Dialed Back Women's Rights
The Women of Tahrir Have a Bigger Battle Ahead December 22, 2011 Vickie Langohr Summary: Over the last decade, Egyptian women have made progress, however gradual, in a fight for control over their...
View ArticleThe Truth About Opium Brides
What Afghanistan's Heroin Industry Is Costing Women March 7, 2012 Fariba Nawa Summary: Bartering girls into marriage to pay off opium debts has become more prevalent in recent years in Afghanistan....
View ArticleBaby Gap
How to Boost Birthrates and Avoid Demographic Decline May 1, 2012 Steven Philip Kramer Summary: Populations throughout the developed world are aging and shrinking, with dire consequences. Yet decline...
View ArticleFighting Mad
Why Women Turn to the FARC -- and How the FARC Turns on Them June 1, 2012 Anne Phillips Summary: Although shooting female FARC members first during battle is not official policy, a retired Colombian...
View ArticleGay Marriage Goes to Court in Colombia
Letter From Bogota May 27, 2013 Lina M. Cespedes-Baez Summary: In the United States, LGBT rights activists are debating whether same-sex marriage can most easily be won in the court of law or in the...
View ArticleLove in the Time of Bollywood
India's Strained Romance Revolution November 14, 2013 Ira Trivedi Summary: In India, notions of dating and romance are transforming. More young people than ever expect to choose their own partners,...
View ArticleEgypt's Shame
Why Violence Against Women Has Soared After Mubarak January 27, 2014 Emily Dyer Summary: The 2011 revolution may have toppled President Hosni Mubarak, but it did not liberate Egyptian women. Sexual...
View ArticleSaudi Women Find a Way
Human Rights Beyond the Driving Ban February 4, 2014 Nina Easton Summary: Saudi Arabia remains the only country on earth to prevent women from driving, but driving is not the only way to measure...
View ArticleThe Indian in the Closet
New Delhi's Wrong Turn on Gay Rights February 12, 2014 Ira Trivedi Summary: Last December, India's Supreme Court re-established a colonial era law prohibiting homosexual relations. That will mix...
View ArticleStatus Anxiety
How the Jaafari Personal Status Law Could Set Iraqi Women Back Decades March 24, 2014 Isobel Coleman Summary: In the run up to this spring's parliamentary elections, Iraqis are debating a new personal...
View ArticleThe Rise of Rwanda's Women
Rebuilding and Reuniting a Nation March 30, 2014 Swanee Hunt Summary: It would be obscene to say that the genocide in Rwanda had even the thinnest silver lining. But it did create a natural -- or...
View ArticleJapan's Change Generation
Letter from Tokyo May 1, 2014 Devin Stewart Summary: For the past two decades, Tokyo has been described as stagnant, glacial, and arthritic. But that is only part of the story. Outside the government,...
View ArticleWhat Modi Can't Give India
The Country Needs More Than Economic Growth May 15, 2014 Ira Trivedi Summary: There is no doubt that the economic development that Modi promises is important. But there is also no doubt that social...
View ArticleSo Much for Moderation
How Rouhani Failed Iranian Women June 29, 2014 Emily Dyer and Louise Millet Summary: Some supporters of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had hoped that he would dial back attacks on women's rights....
View ArticleMeet Pakistan's Lady Cadets
The Trials and Triumphs of Women in Pakistan's Military Academy August 17, 2014 Aeyliya Husain Summary: Wardah Nur never imagined that she would become a soldier. And, until ten years ago, she...
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