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So Much More Than the “Right Thing” To Do

My colleague and great friend Sarah Bibler wrote this week’s post. She’s an expert in how gender issues fit into a nation’s economic growth, and how U.S. foreign policy can do both good and ill for women around the world. She turns her focus towards the U.S. in this piece, and explains how we could [...]

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Haitian Relief through a Gender Lens

Your (Wo)man in Washington has been casting her eye beyond the Beltway, to the crisis in Haiti. Gender matters, it would appear, in every country, in every situation. Aid workers find that women are uniquely placed to make relief efforts more effective. Our friends at Global Mama from Girl W/Pen put up the original post, [...]

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