Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
Every year on 2 October, on what would have been Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, the world celebrates the International Day of Non-Violence. It is, the United Nation...
There has never been a better time in history to be born a woman, according to US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. She’s not wrong: the cause of gender equality has made remarkable p...
Ha sido descrito como uno de los números más importantes en economía. Es también uno de los más controversiales.
This month, the world’s top designers will descend on New York City, London and Milan to showcase their latest creations. On the front row of their fashion shows, alongside celebrities an...
It was perhaps the most defining moment of recent history, the type of event that most people will witness only once in a lifetime. Ask anyone over the age of 30, and they’ll be able to t...
A good film does more than entertain or fill seats at the cinema. It has the power to change hearts and minds – and sometimes society more widely.
For a couple of months now, leaders from the world of politics, business and entertainment have been lining up to make a declaration: poverty is sexist.
The picture on the May 2013 cover of TIME Magazine was less than flattering: a self-absorbed teenager poses for a selfie with her smartphone.
Each year, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. The consequences of this practice are well known – child brides are at higher risk of domestic violence, are more likely to l...
Bra-pinging, groping, sexual innuendoes, unwanted advances. It might sound like a scene from the retro television series Mad Men, but this is the reality today for half of all women in th...
Before he’d even stepped foot in the White House, Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States, was destined to make history. In a country where segregation bet...
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, women in Iran have had to cover their hair in public. It’s a law that’s strictly enforced by Gashte Ershad, the country’s morality police. In fact, i...
Economic growth is a key topic at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017. Watch the session on 'A Positive Narrative for the Global Community' here.
She was Pakistan’s first social media celebrity, the country’s answer to Kim Kardashian. Bold, outspoken and controversial, Qandeel Baloch challenged the idea that a woman’s role was to m...
You are what you eat. And yet most of us have very little idea of what it is we’re putting in our bodies. Take the 2013 scandal that revealed processed beef products in Europe had been co...
