March is International Women’s History month, but while women account for just over half the world’s population, the overwhelming majority of political leaders and policymakers globally are men.
As COVID lingers it’s clear that 2022 will be packed with immensely complicated political problems for all countries. Many female leaders will be at the forefront of efforts to meet complex domestic and international challenges over the next 12 months. Here are four of them.
Shaista, a 22-year-old student in Kabul, Afghanistan, speaks about the mental and psychological effects of living in fear. Here, Shaista expresses complex feelings about a US troop withdrawal in her home country.
As a survivor of dictatorship and torture herself, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is, today, the world's most prominent voice for the voiceless.
A look at the impact the pandemic has had on women's equal rights globally. How much progress in gender equality has been eroded in the wake of job losses and a rise in gender-based violence and economic inequality? And how can that trend be reversed as societies rebuild?
Should Kamala Harris — or another woman — become US president in the future, that'll (finally) put America on par with most of the world's top 20 economies, which have already had a female head of state or government at some point in their democratic history. Here we take a look at which those nations are.