The devastating effects of this pandemic have blanketed all businesses and industries, but it’s had a disproportionate impact on women-led enterprises. India currently has about 13.5 to 15.7 million women-owned enterprises—largely single-person businesses—which factors to less than 20% of all enterprises. This is in addition to the already low female […]
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Koki Ozora, who founded nonprofit Anata no Ibasho, speaks to a woman who would like to help on October 2, 2020 in his office in Tokyo, Japan. Hiro Komae/AP Photos More people died from suicide in Japan in October than the total number of COVID-19 deaths in 2020, figures released […]
In India, there are around 80 million people who have some or the other kind of disability, caused by age-related, accident-related, or medical conditions. As per research by the World Bank, one in every 12 households in India has a person who lives with disability. Several campaigns have been introduced […]
“My sperm has just landed!” a friend texts. This is followed by emojis: a champagne glass, a baby bottle, and a stunned ‘What am I doing?’ face. She’s one of my many girlfriends – late 30s, some with partners, some not – stuck in a very 2020 conundrum: “How do […]
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A former Kenilworth man was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for defrauding eight New Jersey businesses, robbing another and stealing the identities of three women. Raymond Scura, 31, of Staten Island, passed fraudulent checks and used stolen credit cards to purchase luxury goods and services such as a […]
Today the fitness women leading the charge on Instagram couldn’t care less about achieving a certain body ideal. Their metric for success isn’t the number of abs you can achieve but learning more about what makes your body feel good and what makes you feel good in your body. Sure, […]
House Republicans vastly outperformed expectations this election cycle, making deep cuts in Democrats’ majority in the lower chamber despite confidence from Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiHouse adjusts format for dinner with new members after criticism Overnight Defense: Another Defense official resigns | Pentagon chief says military ‘remains strong’ despite purge | Top […]
NEW YORK – Elissa Sangster counts herself fortunate to have had early mentors who pushed to empower and promote women around them. FILE PHOTO: Forte Foundation CEO Elissa Sangster poses in an undated handout photo. Forte Foundation/Handout via REUTERS After business school, Sangster worked at Texas A&M University as assistant […]
When Linda Harris started walking at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, she had no idea how far she’d go. “I had no intentions of walking the Tubman trail,” Harris told Yahoo! ahead of the trek. “It’s just something divine, something glorious that happened. And I simply decided to follow […]
Fernanda Frick’s “IRL Squad,” the Cinema Management Group-sold “Kayara” and Brazil’s “Bring on the Revolution!” are three of the 16 film and TV animation projects at Animation!, one of the industry highlights at the upcoming Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest film market. Running Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, and available […]
The gig economy and high speed internet has changed the way we work, especially for women who get more flexibility in terms of work options. The Employment Outlook Report by TeamLease, a recruitment platform, finds that women gig workers accounted for more than 68,000 jobs in the country last year. […]
Pro-choice activists demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington on March 4. Saul Loeb/Getty Images Subscribe to What Next on Apple Podcasts for the full episode. As we watch the Senate rush to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court this week, many people are worried about what her seating on […]
You would be forgiven for thinking the sheer volume of black female athletes who have reached the top levels of their sport is proof that this industry is unaffected by the racism and misogynoir that pervades other areas of society. But sadly, this is not the case. Sport does not […]