Advocacy
What’s Right with Kansas
In No Place Like Home: Lessons from Activism in LGBT Kansas, C. J. Janovy offers up progressive lessons in a red state.
Review
Sarah Kaplan
Economic Development
Reconsidering Gender Diversity in Economic Development
Building truly inclusive economies requires that leaders broaden their understanding of gender and the many different ways gender identity can affect inclusion.
Economic Development
When Care Work and Paid Work Collide
While people in the Western world often assume that extended families in developing countries are oppressive to women who marry into them, family support can actually enable women to take on paying jobs outside the home.
Economic Development
Beyond Policy: How Gendered Interactions on the Ground Shape Development
Viewing social and economic development as a series of interpersonal interactions can help us understand why development outcomes sometimes diverge from policy goals, and how gendered interactions shape social and economic development.
Education
The Mantra of Meritocracy
Our ongoing obsession with the myth of meritocracy is now spreading to education systems in developing economies with pernicious effects.
Economic Development
Holding Up the Sky: Achieving Women’s Empowerment Requires Working with Women and Men
Involving men in women’s economic development projects can lead to higher impact for women and changes in gender norms.
Human Rights
The Risky Rhetoric of Female Risk Aversion
Women are seen as less likely to engage in risky behavior and more likely to use money prudently. But this stereotype can lead to discrimination against women.
Impact Investing
The Rise of Gender Capitalism
Investing with a gender lens creates financial returns and improves the lives of women and girls and their communities.