This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Another day, another powerful man in media is exposed for harassing a woman. But in this case, the apology has created an opening that shows a way forward for both…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the end of August, more than half a million Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim minority in Burma (Myanmar), have fled violence in that country and crossed the border into Bangladesh…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While some funders have been galvanized to action by recent changes in the political climate, there is still much work to do, both internally and externally, with respect to diversity,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. #MeToo, for all the progress it has made in exposing sexual harassment and abuse—and in exposing the contours of systemic sexism more broadly—has been, from the outset, largely limited in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After decades of criticism from defense attorneys and others, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would push to change New York’s “blindfold law,” which allows prosecutors to withhold evidence against a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To a very large extent, school segregation is a mechanical result of residential segregation. America’s public schools, by and large, look like America’s neighborhoods. That’s the broad conclusion of our…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A few years ago, Michelle Hebl attended the latest in a series of talks hosted by her department at Rice University. The speaker was a man, and Hebl realized that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We found, for instance, that while 42 percent of the organizations we surveyed are led by female executive directors, 87 percent of all executive directors or presidents were white, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It may be a new year, but Melinda Gates is still committed to using her platform and voice to empower women throughout the world. The co-founder of the Bill &…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the last six months of 2017, more than 600,000 people, over half of the Rohingya population of Rakhine state, an area in Western Burma (the nation also called Myanmar),…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mapping Police Violence collected data on over 1,100 killings by police in 2017. Compiling information from media reports, obituaries, public records, and databases like Fatal Encounters and the WashingtonPost, this report represents…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As male harassers and assaulters have been unmasked over the last few months, the reckoning has largely been confined to the realm of the white-collar worker, particularly in industries with…