The pandemic has had a profound effect on women, whose participation in the workflow hit a 33-year low in January 2021. As companies rebound from Covid-19, women are reentering the workforce more slowly than men; some economists estimate that it could take until at least 2024 to rebalance the workforce, amounting to $64.5 billion per year in wage...

At the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, UN Women convened a high-level dialogue to highlight what is needed to ensure transformative change in the lives of women and girls with disabilities as the world accelerates the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and builds back better from COVID-19. Even among women and...

Poor women in remote areas are the least likely to receive adequate health care. This is especially true for regions with low numbers of skilled health workers, such as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The main factors that prevent women from receiving or seeking care during pregnancy and childbirth are: poverty distance to facilities lack...