• 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...
  • Media Unchained

    Media Unchained

    HIStory tells us revolutions are often bloody. They are usually tainted with propaganda, hate, with the entire governmental machinery working aggressively against them. It is not just colonial but human legacy how the establishment have clamped down freedoms of expression and movement, freedoms not only given by – ironically...
  • On Freedom, Ideas of Feminism and Respectable Limitations

    On Freedom, Ideas of Feminism and Respectable Limitations

    It’s hard to explain to others what it’s like to go through life as a woman. I am constantly reminded of the obstacles and limitations that have been placed on me simply because of my gender. It’s not just the overt harassment and discrimination that I face on a...
  • Pace of Reform Toward Equal Rights for Women Falls to 20-Year Low

    March 3rd, 2023, (Washington, USA): The global pace of reforms toward equal treatment of women under the law has slumped to a 20-year low, constituting a potential impediment to economic growth at a critical time for the global economy, a new World Bank report shows. In 2022, the global...
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