As Black women face unemployment challenges, policymaker roundtable seeks solutions

Policymakers, organizers and business owners have gathered to tackle how to address rising unemployment among Black women ...

South African women stage lie-down protest against gender-based violence ahead of G20 summit

Hundreds of women wearing black gathered in a Johannesburg park on Friday, before the start of the Group of 20 summit, to ...

November US jobs report shows surging unemployment for Black women

Gender economist Katica Roy shares analysis of racial and gender disparities in the workforce and how unemployment rates for Black women are setting off alarm bells for the entire U.S. labor market.

‘A five-alarm fire’: Pressley demands federal action as job losses among Black women rise

The unemployment rate of Black women of 7.5 percent in September is nearly twice the national average, officials said Monday.

Women protest gender violence as G20 leaders arrive in South Africa

Hundreds of women staged a nationwide shutdown in South Africa on Friday (November 21), lying silently on pavements and ...