Girls in rural Malawi also spend over three times more time than boys fetching wood and water (Figure 1). Collectively, women from Sub-Saharan Africa spend about 40 billion hours a year collecting ...

Women make up only about 50% of the population and are already tasked with a host of other domestic duties. If women do 60-80% of the work in agriculture, what would the men be doing, especially given ...

BACKGROUNDThis paper provides estimates of the contributions of increased women’s education and reduced infant and child mortality to fertility declines in urban and rural areas of countries in ...

The 2025 third African Women in Dialogue (AfWID) conference that brings over 1 000 women from 55 African countries kicked off in Johannesburg, South Africa on Monday with participants calling for the ...

Kristien Kruger More than 1 000 women from countries across Africa will gather in South Africa this month for a five-day event aimed at advancing women’s contributions to continental and global goals ...

Women have fared worse during COVID than men as the rural‑urban divide deepens and income falls across sub-Saharan Africa In sub-Saharan Africa, the gender inequities of the COVID-19 pandemic follow ...

Indigenous women have been at the forefront of environmental conservation by bringing invaluable ancestral knowledge and practices, and rural women have been leading global and national climate ...