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Brazil’s economic clout: it’s the women’s turn!
Every year all the world celebrates International Women’s Day, a day that showcases the economic, political and social achievements of women. Less than a hundred years ago women in Brazil didn’t even...
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A Step Ahead and Two Behind – The Story of Chilean Women
2013 is election year in Chile. This November we will elect our new president – a female president. Yes! the presidential election is going to be fought between two very prominent politicians and both...
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Poor Women in Cities: Challenges and Innovations
Woman in Dharavi, Mumbai, India. Picture published by Thomas Galvez on Flickr under a CC BY 2.0 license. The urban environment presents unique challenges as well as opportunities for its residents....
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Hawking the “Decameron”: poor women in Ukraine
Valentyna sells used books on the street. Valentyna is in her 70s. She sells used books on the street right under an old rusty fence. I come closer and pick up an extremely old copy of Boccaccio’s...
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A Poor Woman’s Life in Kampala
Woman in Uganda at the door of her house. Credit: Jennifer Wilmore. (CC BY-NC 2.0) Agnes Namagembe is one of 4.2 million Ugandans living in urban areas. Like the majority of Uganda’s urban dwellers,...
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The story of one woman and many others like her
Women in Eastern Anatolia in front of a government office: One out of seven women in Turkey cannot read and write. The figures increase while going from city to countryside, young to old and west to...
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Sense and Sustainability – How Women can Boost the Economy
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. Most of the panels at the Global Economic Symposium had quite a strict format,...
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Stuck in the Middle of Nowhere: Life on under € 56 a Month
“I know it’s sinful, but sometimes I feel like committing suicide” are the words of a 66 years old woman I went to interview for this article in Skopje, Macedonia. Mona* suffers from hyperlipidaemia,...
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Caring and coping: old age carers move in as families move out
This article was written in collaboration with my fellow FutureChallenges author Anikó Mészáros who was of great help in finding the interviewees for this piece. As mobility has increased in Europe,...
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Closing the gender gap to stop women’s drift into poverty
Although Germany is one of the most advanced and developed countries in the world, the financial and economic situation of women in Germany is not the best when compared to that of women in other...
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Stories of Filipino Women told to a Curacaoan
A Filipino woman in the streets of Manila. Photo by Reuel Mark Delez, in Flickr. CC BY 2.0 During my visit to the Philippines in early August, I noticed very many differences between the lives of the...
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Palestine: Women as Economic Investment
Palestinian woman trade her crops in the Old city of Jerusalem during nights. Photo by Ameer Abed Rabo(used by permission) Seven years ago, I had a conversation with some colleagues in the Gaza Strip....
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The Silent Economy: Mexico’s Forgotten Women Workers
Far beyond the aggregated numbers of an urban economy lies a silent and untraceable population working everyday to sustain entire families, doing whatever is humanly possible to get out of poverty....
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Russian women snared by poverty, enslaved by human trafficking?
Children are the victims of adult vices – Poverty by thisisbossi on Flickr under Creative commons license “The average salary in Russia is based on the premise that one person earns RUB 2 million while...
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Quito vs. The Countryside: Where is poverty worse for women?
Here in the Andes of South America, $2000-3000 USD a year is good money for the average family. Young kids at the Working Boys’ Center in Quito, Ecuador help contribute to their family’s financial...
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Delhi’s homeless women: the street, my shelter, my home
A homeless woman cooks food under the Yamuna river flyover in Delhi, India. (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0) (Picture by Rahul Kumar) The past couple of years women have been raising their voices in cities all across...
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Poor and Female — a Double Curse in Pakistan
It’s not like women in Pakistan have it easy, no matter what their financial status is or where they live. They are living in a society that is oppressive at best, misogynistic and downright cruel at...
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Indigenous Women and Grassroots Alternatives to Development
Photo Credits to Julie Edgley Having spent last summer working in Uganda, I wasn’t surprised at what I saw as I walked down a street in Chiapas, Mexico. A woman perhaps the age of my grandmother, was...
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Poor women in Kampala bring about change in their communities
A woman in her shop in a fishing village on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Credit: AIDS Vaccine (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Gertrude is my neighbor. She’s 50 years old but when you see her, you’d think she was 60. She...
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Women and the perils of homelessness in Brazil
During the day in wintertime, blankets are left on trees and public gardens in São Paulo. Photo by the author in August, 2013. Homeless people are a reality worldwide; they are often driven to a life...
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