This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.N. human rights office will tackle sexual harassment and establish a volunteer network of in-house “first responders” to address inappropriate conduct, heeding the U.N. secretary-general’s call that more be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Chinese immigrants are the third-largest foreign-born group in the United States, after Mexicans and Indians. Chinese immigration to the United States has consisted of two waves, the first arriving in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women are rewriting the story of India, and of the 21st century. Over the next two decades, the gains of India’s 650 million women will power global progress not only…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Barely one in 10 decision-makers in the venture capital world are women. The VCs “are starting to understand that that is not working for the majority of people,” Ellen Pao of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The newly appointed executive director of the United Nations Population Fund has described a situation of injustice when it comes to women and girls’ access to reproductive health and rights,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions, yet little is known about the long-run, sustained impacts of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It quickly became clear that our focus on inequality demands that we think seriously about disability issues. It became equally clear that across all our programs, the specific outcomes and…
This fact sheet offers estimates of the populations that could potentially benefit under five legislative proposals. Drawing upon a unique MPI methodology that permits analysis and modeling of characteristics of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Immigrant and refugee youth who enter the United States during their secondary school years face a daunting set of challenges. In addition to learning a new language and adjusting to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United Nations’ current policy on sexual harassment and its internal processes to investigate such allegations “is not enough” by itself to combat the problem, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Trump Administration announced on September 5 that it was rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) administrative amnesty program, with a six-month wind-down period. DACA provided almost 800,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One in every five children in the U.S. has a learning and attention issue. Dyslexia is the most common of those issues, impacting as many as 8.5 million American school…