Gender Equality

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Appoints President of Gender Equality

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Appoints President of Gender Equality

    June 15th, 2020, Seattle (USA): The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Anita Zaidi, currently director, Vaccine Development & Surveillance (VD&S) and Enteric & Diarrheal Diseases (EDD), as the first president of Gender Equality on June 11th, 2020. In this new role, Anita will oversee a division comprised of the...
  • Human Rights Specialist Liz Guantai Selected For The Women Deliver Young Leaders Program 2020

    Women Deliver has announced its Young Leaders Program Class of 2020, consisting of 300 diverse set of young people from all over the world. These changemakers have been chosen for their groundbreaking efforts advancing gender equality not just within their communities and countries, but all across the globe. And,...
  • IN FOCUS – WD2019: Nearly 40% of the world’s girls and women live in countries failing on gender equality, SDG Index finds

    Read Report Here   Vancouver, (Canada):Results for 129 countries measured by a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Gender Index released today by Equal Measures 2030 show that the world is far from achieving gender equality, with 1.4 billion girls and women living in countries that get a “very poor”...
  • Going beyond the Gender Rule Debate

    This article was previously published in Ananke's special Women's Day 2019 Edition. In 2018, the Kenyan parliament went into a debate on the Gender Bill. See, Kenya’s parliament is currently unconstitutional. According to the 2010 constitution, elective or appointive bodies should be made up of not more than ⅔...
  • Powering Gender Equality in the UAE

    Dubai, UAE: The opening of the UN Women Liaison Office for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Abu Dhabi on the 17th of October is set to enhance the UAE’s position on gender parity by helping to further promote women’s empowerment and rights, according to Reach, the first non-profit organization...
  • Cultures of Care: Morality and Gender

    This article is the first of three articles on Care Economy and its critical role in development.  From time immemorial, care work has been considered a female ‘prerogative’. Stemming from a patriarchal mindset, care-giving responsibilities to the young and old alike are presumed to be mainly a woman’s job....
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