Women Transcend
Podcast Host - Jennifer Todd
The future is female. Let's get ready.
Women Transcend
Podcast Host - Jennifer Todd
The future is female. Let's get ready.
A Destination
The WOMEN TRANSCEND! weekly feminist podcast series investigates issues facing women and girls worldwide, and highlights how incredible women and girls are overcoming them every day in amazing ways! Subscribe to our podcast series now to listen to our fascinating discussions, and incredible people.
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Women's voices
Investigating contemporary issues and the impact on women and girls in the United States and around the world.
Women's voices
Investigating contemporary issues and the impact on women and girls in the United States and around the world.
Education Equality & Opportunity
A 2013 report by UNESCO found that 31 million girls of primary school age were not in school, and about one out of every four young women in developing countries had never completed their primary school education. that same report suggests that educated women are more likely to get married later, survive childbirth, raise healthy kids, find work, and earn more money, among other positives.
Gender Equality
Equality (or the lack thereof) is a recurring issue when it comes to women and girls, whether it’s unequal access to schooling for girls in developing countries, or unequal pay for women in the workplace. In a world where 95% of countries are led by a male head of state, it’s clear that we as a global community have a long way to go before women are given a fair shake.
Women's Rights
Women's Rights
Lack of Progress
When it comes to female education rates, progress has been made around the world, and young women have outnumbered and outperformed boys and men at all levels of schooling for decades. Nevertheless, these advances have yet to translate into greater equity in employment, politics and social relations.
Women Work More Than Men
For many women, unpaid work in and for the household takes up the majority of their working hours, with much less time spent in remunerative employment. Even when they participate in the labour market for paid employment, women still undertake the majority of the housework.
Feminization of Poverty
At the same time that women produce 75 to 90 percent of food crops in the world, they are responsible for the running of households. According to the United Nations, in no country in the world do men come anywhere close to women in the amount of time spent in housework.