Some 1.7 million female healthcare workers live in poverty, according to a study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Jacksonville-based Women's Giving Alliance, about 500 women who pool their philanthropic giving, has awarded a record $543,000 in grants to seven Northeast Florida nonprofits that work to lift ...

Focusing on female education may be our best shot in the drive to eradicate poverty, according to political leaders, development experts, and even business leaders. Microsoft founder and ...

Australia faces a serious challenge. Despite important progress on gender equality over recent decades, a looming crisis now ...

LONDON, May 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leading African female musicians have recorded a video of songs and instrumental music, joining a "Poverty is Sexist" campaign to put women and girls at ...

A new study finds that low wages and poor benefits leave many female health care workers living below the poverty line. A study carried out by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and ...

36 prominent women including Beyonce Knowles and Lady Gaga have signed a petition calling Sunday on the G7 and the African Union to tackle female poverty. The US singers as well as actresses Meryl ...