Women & Economy

Targeting Hard-core Urban Poverty with a Female Face

By Marcela Valente
A new social programme launched by the Argentine government to fight hard-core poverty is providing unemployed mothers who are heads of households with education, training, work and an income.

Technology and Innovation Aim at Greater Food Security

By Cydney Hargis
In the face of global climate change and currency devaluation, improved strategies are being used to combat high international poverty and malnutrition rates, and to increase global food security. 

Management Jobs Elusive for Cuban Women

By Ivet González
Despite the progress made by Cuban women in education, where they account for 64 percent of university graduates, they continue to have a limited presence in management positions.

Community Theatre Confronts Gender Stereotypes

By Kalinga Seneviratne
The play opens with a man and his mother waiting impatiently at the dining table in the family home. A woman rushes in after a busy day at the office with takeaway dinner packets, followed by her son and daughter who walk in expecting their mother to serve them a meal.

Q&A: In Search of “Missing Girls” in TV and Film

By Lydia Lim
Apart from being an actress, film producer and writer, Geena Davis is a leading advocate of equal gender portrayal in the entertainment media.

War or Peace, Sri Lankan Women Struggle to Survive

By Amantha Perera
It has been four years since the guns fell silent in Sri Lanka’s northern Vanni region, after almost three decades of ethnic violence. Unfortunately peace does not mean the end of hardship for the most vulnerable people here: the women.

A Floral Touch to Employment in Kashmir

By Athar Parvaiz
As a little girl, Rubeena Begum had big plans: she would become a doctor and secure a decent income working in one of the 30 hospitals in the Himalayan state of Kashmir in north India.

Girls Fight Back Against Child Marriage

By Naimul Haq
Shirin Aktar was just 13 years old when her parents decided it was time for her to get married.

To Find Peace, And Then Sell It

By Rebecca Murray
As the month of Ramadan nears, shop owners in Sanaa’s old city souk stock up on goods. For men like Ali Al-Fakri, who sells jambiyahs, Yemen’s traditional daggers held in place with richly embroidered belts, the gift-giving holiday marking Ramadan’s end is the busiest time of the year.

Agriculture Leans on Japanese Women

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
Yukako Harada, an energetic 29-year-old, is part of a small but determined band of women farmers working hard to revitalise Japan’s moribund agricultural sector, which is feeling the crunch of an ageing population and a flood of cheap imports.

Q&A: Empower Indigenous Women to Assert Their Rights

By Silvia Romanelli
Women around the world are exposed to domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, gender-based violence, female genital mutilation and child marriage. For indigenous women and girls, however, the risk of being victims of such issues is especially high.

Leasehold Forestry Brings a New Lease on Life

By Naresh Newar
Nearly 300 km from Nepal’s teeming capital, Kathmandu, in a small village dug into the steep slopes of the mountainous Palpa district, 35-year-old Dhanmaya Pata goes about her daily chores in much the same way that her ancestors did centuries ago.

Women’s Time Has Come

By Claudia Ciobanu
Closing the gender gap between women and men on agriculture and food security could free over one hundred million people from hunger. 

Award Spotlights Indian Women Helping Women

By Stella Paul
Jassiben, a self-employed potter from Nana Shahpur village in western India, loves summer despite the heat waves and frequent power cuts, because summer days always mean great business.

In Swaziland, Seeds Beat Drought

By Mantoe Phakathi
The overcast sky is a sign that it might rain, and Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from rural Maphungwane in eastern Swaziland, is not exactly happy.

Sowing a Healthier Future

By Claudia Ciobanu
“If there was enough political will to defeat hunger, we would defeat it right now - immediately,” says Enrique Yeves, chief of corporate communications at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

Keeping Food Security Central to U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda

By Thalif Deen
As the United Nations prepares to launch an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, the message from one of its Rome-based agencies is unequivocal: the eradication of hunger and malnutrition should remain a high priority when the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) end in 2015.

Indian Farmers Flex Collective Muscles

By Stella Paul
Chelmet Padmamma, 42, of Babanagar village in southern India’s drought-prone Medak district, is a happy woman: the rain has come earlier this year, thrice soaking the three-acre farm that she co-owns with four other women from her village.

How to Close Latin America’s Rich-Poor Chasm

By Cydney Hargis
Latin American governments have increasingly been working to lessen inequality in the region, but new data suggests their efforts vary widely in quality and impact.

Q&A: Women Hardest Hit by Growing Austerity Measures

By Thalif Deen
The widespread financial crisis in Europe, and its negative fallout in the developing world, has triggered severe austerity measures worldwide.

BOOKS: The Brothel Next Door

By Silvia Romanelli
The underground sex trade is closer to our everyday world than we may think.
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