Opinions & Insights

I’m often asked, “What is a good tool to use to do a quick gender analysis?” Here’s a simple gender analysis tool to keep in your back pocket.

If your boss hands you the latest brief on food security, police reform, or democratic elections, and then asks you to apply a gender perspective to the brief—here’s some help!

“Gender blindness” refers to the lack of awareness about how men and women are differently affected by a situation due to their different roles, needs, status and priorities in their societies.

The Foreign Policy Project is an educational mentorship program for young women interested in careers in international relations. The project produces a podcast called “Women in Diplomacy.”

Empowered women have the agency and ability to move a society rife with conflict toward sustainable peace.

I am a young feminist and I am here to tell you that you need us.

Repeat after me... I am a woman, I am smart, I have opinions, I have feelings, I care, I make a difference, I matter, I am a woman and I am proud of who I am. -Nour, Algeria

The Civil Rights Movement and the advancement of women’s rights are founded on the principle of equality and the respect for the dignity of all life.

With the newly elected U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, women are beginning to form a critical mass of representation within the world’s highest offices.

In the 1880’s women in America and England were considered "fast" if they rode bicycles. Their clothes changed from long skirts to split pants that some considered detrimental to the female sex. Bicycle riding was also thought to be a danger to fertility.