Every time I tell someone I’m on a solo journey across Asia, they give me a blank stare. It quickly morphs into either a look of pity, concern, and happy to say, sometimes admiration. And every time I wonder how their reaction would be if I were a man. An oil company executive’s Colombian wife, whose husband’s [...]

I recently discovered the  Hollaback Project , “a movement dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology.” Street harassment is a reality women face in varying degrees, depending on where in the world you live. The first time I remember experiencing this I was 11 — I was living in Bogotá, Colombia, at the time, I should clarify. [...]

Never are the problematics of race and gender at their most evident but when we see how the media disproportionately covers the hell out of disappeared pretty, young, white women and gives very little coverage to disappeared black women or men. This is also known as the “Missing White Woman Syndrome.” “It’s all about sex. Young [...]

It’s finally becoming not controversial or fringe to say that investing in women is smart economic policy, at least in the development sector.  The Daily Beast ‘s recent article, “Why the Global Economy Needs Businesses to Invest in Women”, speaks about the new trend in the  World Economic Forum in  Davos,

Businesses are starting to understand what development experts have long known: [...]

Pacte Pour Légalité seeks to put pressure on France’s 2012 presidential candidates to address the obstacles toward equality between men and women. The scenarios in the video serve mostly as metaphor of what it’s like to [...]

Controversy about the ultra-Orthodox Jewish treatment of women shows no signs of abating,  coming to a kind of crisis . Recently, ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Israel spat on an 8-year-old they deemed was dressed indecently, Naama Margolese, from Beit Shemesh. In an incident like this, it is very clear who is at fault. But the underlining narrative here [...]

Now, for the first time in history, people who aren’t married outnumber those who are. It’s very interesting to look at how the media are trying to analyze this, sometimes insightfully, sometimes a bit less than. A  New York Times article , ”Alone Again, Naturally,” reveals:

“A woman discovers the answer to the question: Why do many men, after [...]

Turkey is a nation of Muslim people without being a Muslim nation; it is therefore the  most gender-equality prone in the Arab world. In the most touristy, “Western” parts of Istanbul, I saw occasional headscarves at the most. But the one day we ventured over to the Western district, the former Jewish and Christian ghetto and now a [...]

The  Phillipines is the latest country in the world, together with Vatican City , to ban  divorce. This may change as they try to pass a law to allow it, yet how would this change the landscape? Al Jazeera’s reports on the lives of women who are victims of abusive  marriages, and are desperately trying to find a way out [...]