Financial and Technical Aid Allows Impoverished Women to Reach Their Potential

Bedassa Tadesse writes about battling gender inequality in third-world nations with needed financial and technical support.
Best practices include:

• Incorporate gender considerations in all development projects
• Engage men and boys
• Ensure that efforts are relevant and practical
• Respect the social, political and cultural contexts
• Encourage and strengthen governmental instituions
• Promote education for women and girls.

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Chess and Women

Wei Ji Ma explores why men have the highest rankings as chess players .

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Men, Women and COVID-19

Dina Gerdeman reports on the research of Vincent Pons' team, which notes that men are more likely to die of COVID-19 than women. Pons suggests that women more frequently comply with suggested safety rules, such as wearing masks and social distancing.

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Overcoming Obstacles

Erica L. Green, Mark Walker and Eliza Shapiro write about the obstacles young african-american women face in their school and community .

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Women and Computing

Clare Evans has written Broad Band , a comphrensive history of the role of women in computer technology.

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Invented by Women

Amanda Green shares 19 things invented by women .

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Women's Groups on Campus

Sarah Brown mourns the disappearance of female clubs from the Harvard campus.

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Women Tend to Work Longer Hours

According to Gemma Acton, women work 39 more days each year than men.

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Women's Wages and Hours

Gemma Acton reports that globally, women work longer each day than men if unpaid work is taken into account.

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Adjunct Faculty Statistics

Liana Silva questions the accuracy of statistics on adjunct professors in higher education, and calls for an agency which would track this workforce.

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