A few years ago, Saginaw, Michigan, was deemed the most dangerous city in America for women to live, according to FBI data. The former manufacturing outpost suffers from widespread unemployment and ...

September 25 – In a private interview with Maria Eitel, President of the Nike Foundation, and Peter Buffett, co-chair with his wife Jennifer of the NoVo Foundation, I learned how Maria and Peter first ...

At Stellar we believe that increasing access to financial services worldwide hinges on reaching women. Recently I discovered The Girl Effect, a nonprofit dedicated to helping young girls break the ...

This week, hundreds of writers and activists have joined forces in the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign. The Girl Effect is an initiative that seeks to draw attention to the unique ways in which women ...

This article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. It wouldn’t be the Olympics without the biennial onslaught of Swooshes, and 2016 was no different. Nike, ...

I live as the sole injection of estrogen in a house full of testosterone with my husband and two young boys, aged nine and six. But suddenly I am swimming in estrogen. I live as the sole injection of ...

As the world marks the fourth International Day of the Girl Child, Girl Effect and Gavi today announced a ground-breaking partnership to protect girls from contracting cervical cancer in developing ...