Feminist analysis, commentary, and research
Explore feminist perspectives through in-depth analysis and commentary.
15 articles
UN Women uses Kenya’s National Care Policy process to show how time-use evidence can inform childcare, social protection, labor rights, and basic-service reform.
UN Women Africa / 6 minsILO labor-force data identifies unpaid care as a major structural barrier to women’s employment and shows how region, income, and family institutions widen the gap.
International Labour Organization / 6 minsNew book 'Breaking Free' reveals how 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that keeps women and marginalized communities chasing an unattainable goal. True liberation requires not equality, but freedom.
Amelia Hruby (Based on Breaking Free book) / 9 minsAn ILO and Magdalene time-use experiment makes Indonesian women’s invisible care hours concrete, showing how family responsibility consumes rest, paid work, and autonomy.
International Labour Organization / 6 minsUN Women defines care as a public good and social infrastructure, connecting gender equality, climate crisis, public services, and care workers’ rights in one policy framework.
UN Women / 7 minsWHO connects the concentration of women in paid and unpaid care with low wages and underinvestment, showing that the care crisis is a structural result of devaluing women’s work.
World Health Organization / 7 minsIn 2024, women in the US earn an average of only 85% of what men earn, with the gender pay gap reaching a historic low of 18% but progress remains painfully slow. Women with advanced degrees face an even larger pay gap, losing over $32,500 annually. This economic inequality is not just a personal loss but a manifestation of systemic discrimination.
Economic Policy Institute & Fawcett Society / 8 minsThis policy brief examines the strength, fragmentation, financing, and political space of women’s movements across Africa, emphasizing that durable equality depends on autonomous collective power.
UN Women Africa / 15 minsThis Beijing+25 regional synthesis measures progress and persistent gaps across work, care, violence, health, and political power, giving South Asian feminist claims a comparative policy baseline.
UN Women & UN ESCAP / 12 minsA regional report tracing how slavery’s colonial legacy persists through racialized poverty, labor, health, violence, and exclusion from decision-making for Afro-descendant women.
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean / 10 minsA regional case in UN Women’s fund report follows Dalit women’s organizations in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka as they connect land, labor, education, and political representation across borders.
UN Women Fund for Gender Equality / 8 minsA regional evidence base on Indigenous women’s physical, economic, and political autonomy that also exposes how statistical invisibility limits rights, policy, and accountability.
ECLAC / CELADE / Gender Equality Observatory / 12 mins