Education and economic opportunities

Girls across South East Asia and the Pacific have experienced disrupted education, with many being forced to drop out of school altogether.

Yasmin Poole has been interviewing women across the Pacific about lockdowns and the gendered impacts of COVID-19.

Education is everything. It is the key that unlocks doors. Unleashes potential. Unlocks dreams, writes Aishatu Alhajikabu.

The Bureau of Statistics survey on the household impacts of Covid-19 show women do more unpaid work in the home.

Google’s The Grow With Google Black Women Lead is a new initiative providing black women with career development and digital skills.

Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed director general of the World Trade Organization.

WHAT SHE DID NEXT talks to Yanti Turang, a registered nurse from Australia, working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Work management app Asana has found that Australians had one of the highest rates of burnout of any country in 2020.

A study looking at the number of experts who appeared on mainstream television on COVID-19 revealed that only 30 percent were women.

More than one in five women in IT have experienced sexual harassment and more than half saying they had experienced gender discrimination.

The pandemic has seen some accelerated changes we wanted to see happen, including perhaps that long-desired career change?

Roughly two-thirds of the retail workforce experienced a mental health condition during the COVID-19 pandemic.