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 ...
Christian Science Monitor

Climate-resilient women: Seaweed farmers feed families and futures

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Forbes

Women Entrepreneurs Focus On Local Markets—Except In Asia

A woman promotes products via livestreaming at the "E-commerce" Pavilion during the second Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 23, 2023. The second Global ...
CNN

'They destroyed our trees': Women say their farms were seized to support Indonesia's electric vehicle boom

(CNN)Masita rustles through the long grass, trying not to stumble as she points to another mountain in the distance. "That all there used to be my land," she said. "All gone." The mountain on the ...
The Diplomat

Misun Woo on Women’s Rights in the Asia-Pacific

In September 1995, following the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China, a declaration was issued proclaiming, among other things, that “women’s rights are human ...
Panda

Asia’s first shrimp farm certified as sustainable

Vietnamese shrimp farm Quoc Viet is Asia’s first shrimp farm to be certified by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC). Vietnamese shrimp farm Quoc Viet is Asia’s first shrimp farm to be certified ...
Asia Society

Sue Ann Hong-Whitaker

Sue Ann Hong-Whitaker joined the Center for Asian Pacific American Women (CAPAW) in May 2018 as the interim Executive Director. As of January 2020, she is the President & CEO. Her career was with ...
The Diplomat

International Women’s Day: Flowers or ‘the Language of Force’ for Women in Central Asia?

Today is March 8, International Women’s Day. Today, women in Central Asia will receive special gifts, flowers, and positive attention. At the same time, violence against women and gender inequality ...