• Granaz Baloch on Climate Justice, Challenging Patriarchy

    Granaz Baloch on Climate Justice, Challenging Patriarchy

    Granaz Baloch, the founder of Turbat Hub-Global Shapers, is an educationist, water researcher, and climate change activist whose work is focused on education, clean water, sanitation, gender equality, and community development. She is one of the climate change activists featured in the book Climate Change Heroes by SOC Films...
  • Last to Eat, Last to Learn

    Last to Eat, Last to Learn

    Book Review Last to Eat, Last to Learn My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women by Pashtana Durrani; Tamara Bralo Published by Kensington Books Last to Eat, Last to Learn, My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women is a candid narrative from a girl who was born...
  • Bridging the Gender Gap: Women in Pakistan's Evolving Tech Sector

    Bridging the Gender Gap: Women in Pakistan’s Evolving Tech Sector

    While Pakistan is going through severe economic and political turmoil at the moment, a small ray of sunshine in all this gloom and doom is the rapidly advancing tech sector of the country. Historically, women in Pakistan had to deal with numerous obstacles when venturing into the workplace. Cultural...
  • Influencing Changemaking Through Media

    Influencing Changemaking Through Media

    This interview is a part of Ananke’s special edition celebrating The Fred Hollows Foundation’s 30 years of change making in the fields of eye health and development. The Special Edition can be viewed here.  Let us begin by you telling us about yourself?  I am a simple, hardworking, and...
  • Debunking myths around women’s commitment towards active legal practice

    Debunking myths around women’s commitment towards active legal practice

    What inspired you to become a lawyer, and when did you decide to pursue this career? The career seemed to have decided on me instead *laughs*, actually I was enrolled in an accelerated A level programme in which the A level examinations had to be taken all in one...
  • Deconstructing Barbenheimer

    Deconstructing Barbenheimer

    Warning: Spoilers ahead for a host of movies and TV series – Barbie, Oppenheimer and Game of Thrones. Tread with caution!   Today, I watched/heard a most stirring speech and it almost made me shed a tear – well, almost! It goes like this: It is literally impossible to...
  • Less than 1 percent of women and girls live in a country with high women’s empowerment and high gender parity

    Less than 1 percent of women and girls live in a country with high women’s empowerment and high gender parity

    July 18th, 2023, (Kigali, Rwanda): No country has achieved full gender parity and fewer than 1 percent of women and girls live in a country with high women’s empowerment and a small gender gap, according to a new global report launched by UN Women and UNDP today at the Women...
  • Ken Would Earn Over £4 million A Year More Than Barbie If He Worked The Same Roles, Gender Pay Gap Data Reveals

    Ken Would Earn Over £4 million A Year More Than Barbie If He Worked The Same Roles, Gender Pay Gap Data Reveals

    A shocking 90% of Barbie’s jobs pay men more money for doing the same thing Only six out of 59 (10%) roles analysed showed females to earn more than their male counterparts The top pay disparity role is a Judge; If Ken was a judge, he’d be paid 31% more...
  • The Gender Security Project launches Feminist Foreign Policy Online Course

    The Gender Security Project launches Feminist Foreign Policy Online Course

    (Information source: The Gender Security Project) Since 2014, 12 countries have adopted Feminist Foreign Policies. However, a lot more needs to be done in prioritizing feminism in feminist foreign policies. While some countries focused on providing aid, some chose to add women and stir. Instead of choosing to engage...
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