Blogs & Opinion
A Gender-Equal Ethiopian Parliament Can Improve the Lives of All Women
19 April 2020 | James Jeffrey
Recent gains by women in the Ethiopian political landscape offer a chance to improve gender equality around the country and put an end to long-standing societal iniquities. Since coming to power in 2...
A Gender Lens for COVID-19
16 April 2020 | Susan Papp and Marcy Hersh
When pandemics strike, world leaders and health responders must adapt quickly to the looming threat. Often the last factor they consider – if it makes their to-do lists at all – is gender. As adv...
Pandemic Hits Women Harder, Says WSI
15 April 2020
Is a gender viewpoint needed to examine the COVID-19 risks and impacts on fisheries and aquaculture? According to Natalia Briceño-Lagos and Marie Christine Monfort of the International Organisation f...
Gender Relations in Forestry: Beyond a Headcount
15 April 2020 | Kate Evans
Women can play a huge role as ‘critical actors’ in defending and managing their forests, says Ph.D. candidate and gender researcher Priyanka Bhalla from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in...
Women Leaders Are Doing a Disproportionately Great Job at Handling the Pandemic. So Why Aren’t There More of Them?
15 April 2020 | Leta Hong Fincher
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power discuss how seven female world leaders are spearheading a strong response to the coronavirus pandemic. In Taiwan,...
Women, Peace, and Security: Gender and the COVID-19 Pandemic
13 April 2020 | Tracy Beattie, Hal Crichton-Standish, Daria Impiombato, Alexandra Pascoe, and Albert Zhang
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, a number of commentators have stressed the need for gender analysis of the issue. Writing for The Atlantic, Helen Lewis discusses the ways in which a pandemic magnifie...
Unfulfilled Ambition: Yemen's National Action Plan for Women Leaves Much to Be Desired
9 April 2020 | Maha Awadh
As Yemen enters its sixth year of a vicious war, turning it into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, women bear the greater burden of the armed conflict. Even before the conflict, Yemeni women we...
Women Leaders Call on UN Security Council to Address Covid-19 Crisis
9 April 2020 | Group of Women Leaders, Voices for Change and Inclusion
This letter to President of the United Nations Security Council Mr. José Singer Weisinger was signed electronically on 8 April 2020 by a growing group of women leaders. His Excellency,The world is c...
India: Climate Change and the Need for Gender-Responsive Policymaking
5 April 2020 | Akanksha Khullar
While climate change in general has negative implications, from a gender perspective, it entails greater risks for women than men. In India, as weather patterns change and become more unpredictable,...
Women, Peace, and Security - Challenges and Opportunities in Light of the Corona Pandemic
4 April 2020 | Carmen Niethammer
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Resolution on Women, Peace and Security, also known as UN Resolution 1325. It specifically addresses how women and girls are differentially...