Microfinance turns India's rural women into budding entrepreneurs

Pulling out a shirt from a shelf at her shop in central India, Chandrawati Rajpoot recalls the sleepless nights she had after ...

Rigid gender roles are prompting women to leave rural Japan

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...
The Conversation

Rural women are at a higher risk of violence − and less likely to get help

Walter S. DeKeseredy receives funding from West Virginia University.. I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are surprised by the information on ...
HousingWire

Single women homebuyers are outpacing single men by a 2-to-1 ratio

When the National Association of Realtors (NAR) first started its Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers in 1981, it found that single women were the second largest demographic in the U.S. housing market, ...

Indian women gain abortion rights but cost and stigma limit access

A ruling by India's top court that grants unmarried women equal abortion rights could end up being largely symbolic without ...
Women's Health

Women are happier being single than men, study says

Say goodbye to sullen spinster stereotypes: single women are having all the fun, according to new research – or at least, more than single men. Researchers looked at data from 10 studies carried out ...