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Global Fund for Women has joined the With and For Girls Collective as the 11th member in a collaborative effort to advance gender equality globally using an unprecedented participatory grantmaking approach with adolescent girls. The Collective are united in the belief that girls are best placed to make decisions on issues which affect them. Global Fund for Women is one of the … [Read more...] about News Release: Global Fund for Women joins the With and For Girls Collective to give more girls grants in the global fight to achieve gender equality

The festival, directed by Alberto Barbera, has just two women directors out of 21 films. … [Read more...] about Venice Film Festival under fire for lack of female directors

Sangeeta has over ten years of experience in the international development and social impact space. She began her career as a policy researcher at The Energy and Resources Institute, a think-tank in New Delhi, conducting inquiries at the economy-society-environment interface after completing a PhD in Economics from the University of Mumbai. Subsequently, she worked on academic … [Read more...] about Sangeeta Nandi

The women of the US national soccer team are famous for ­being extraordinary athletes, repeat world champions — and plaintiffs. The team’s lawsuit alleging pay discrimination against the US soccer federation has done much to define its identity. A nearly perfect run through the World Cup has been widely interpreted as vindication of the merits,... … [Read more...] about US women’s soccer team equal-pay gripe is less than it seems

BRUSSELS — For the first time, European Union leaders nominated women for half of the top positions they filled Tuesday to lead the world’s biggest trade bloc. And the women were picked for what are arguably the two most important jobs of the four posts: heading the EU’s executive Commission and leading the European Central... … [Read more...] about EU aims for ‘perfect gender balance’ with female nominations