A mother walking her child home from school in Uganda.
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High fertility is driven by a number of factors including desired family size, low levels of use of modern contraceptives, and high levels of adolescent childbearing.
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Women have to push through barriers to access higher education.
Women and girls in Gayo village, Ehtiopia collect water from a rain water pool which is purified with tablets before use.
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The aim is to reduce maternal deaths, address the unmet need for family planning and end gender-based violence by 2030.
Residents and small business in a poor community in Cape Town.
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Research shows that abuse, violence and poor relationships in families may have dire consequences for society, and specifically children.
Women have to push through barriers to access higher education.
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Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
A woman casts her ballot in Guinea’s presidential elections in the capital Conakry, in October 2015.
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Popular theories of high-level electoral conspiracy shaped the emergence of new political orientations
Child labour is still endemic in Nigeria.
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Middle-class Nigerians employ children in their homes for a range of reasons.
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Kenya’s constitution protects children from all forms of violence, but the country’s implementation strategies are weak.
Morocco reformed its family law in 2004 to increase the legal age of marriage to 18.
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The region has made progress but efforts must continue to end a harmful practice rooted in poverty and tradition.
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During almost all outbreaks, women provide the majority of care to the ill voluntarily in their homes at great risk and cost to themselves.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses demonstrators protesting against
gender-based violence outside Parliament.
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Research has a distinctive role to play because it gives pointers on what is needed to create long-term change.
Only one third of women in Madagascar get prenatal care in the first trimester.
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Providing affordable pregnancy tests to women in low-resource countries is a critical, yet under-appreciated, way to improve their health.
Sexist stereotypes are playing out in the world of artificial intelligence.
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All the virtual personal assistants on the market today come with a default female voice and is programmed to respond to all kinds of suggestive questions and comments.
A woman and baby on a bicycle taxi in Salima, Malawi. Some Malawian men are becoming more involved in childcare.
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While not all men are willing to become involved in women and children’s health, some situations force them take on ‘women’s work’.
Efforts to stop gender-based violence must include men and women.
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There are a number of effective interventions to prevent gender-based violence among adult women and men at risk of HIV infection. But little is known about the effectiveness of these in young people.
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It’s not enough to simply promote healthy eating and exercise without considering South Africa's very real environmental and structural constraints.
Projects that support Congolese women who have survived gender violence often promote ideal notions of how men and women should behave.
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Interventions to prevent and address sexual and gender-based violence in eastern DR Congo often reinforce traditional gender stereotypes
South Africa’s labour market is more favourable to men than to women. The 4IR may widen the gap.
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The world of the fourth industrial revolution looks set to be one dominated by forms of knowledge and industries – like science and technology – that have long been dominated by men.
Women and girls on the move are often framed as victims.
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Health responses need to take on board the fact that the number of women and girls migrating across borders as well as within countries is growing.
Women report abuse during delivery.
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Research in Ghana, India and Kenya shows that more women experience subtle forms of undignified care than they do physical and verbal abuse during childbirth.