This edition of the Business of Giving features Judy Vredenburgh, president and CEO of Girls Inc., a nonprofit that works in schools to serve girls growing up in poverty. The organization focuses on ...

A new study suggests that growing up in poverty accelerates biological development. For adolescent girls, this early onset of ...

On March 12, the South Asian Cultural Association and Planned Parenthood Generation Action hosted a collaborative event to ...

A 2023 report by UNICEF found that 23% of adolescent girls in Nigeria had missed school due to menstruation. This multifaceted challenge, encompassing lack of access to sanitary products, inadequate ...

If you’re not born with a silver spoon, then you have to work twice as had to be successful because it is never easy to maintain success. Poverty is a mindset; you have to wean yourself of it. Leaders ...

THERE is a renewed call for free sanitary pads for girls in rural communities to end period poverty as the country joins the rest of the world to commemorate the International Women’s Day. Period ...

A Buckinghamshire charity urges people to craft reusable pads to raise awareness of period poverty.

Thirty years after a landmark international document safeguarding women's dignity, much remains to be done to ensure the well-being of women and girls worldwide, said a top Vatican diplomat. On Sept.

Building the pipeline for women to ascend into leadership starts early. When former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote her book, "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" in 2013, she started a ...

With less than five years remaining to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, progress on gender equality remains tremendously slow. The World Economic Forum states that68.8% of the global ...