The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Wednesday named University of Michigan provost Susan Collins as its next chief, making her the first Black woman to lead a regional Fed bank and delivering a measure of new diversity to U.S. central bank leadership.
The United Nations Women has recently launched a multi-lingual book that aims to promote intra African trade for women by simplifying the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Pope Francis on Sunday decried the genital mutilation of millions of girls and the trafficking of women for sex, including openly on city streets, so that others can make money off them.
Women rights activists have intensified calls to the government to ensure all barriers to women taking leadership roles, including contesting in political elections, are removed before the next General Elections in 2025.
On Wednesday, 2 February 2022, the Taliban said they have reopened public universities for women students in six of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, a move marking a major concession to international demands by the country’s new rulers.
President Joe Biden has said he will nominate a Black woman to the US Supreme Court for the first time in history, filling the vacancy left by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Ahead of the 2023 general election in Nigeria, women have vowed to contest for various elective positions, saying unlike in the past elections, women would not place second fiddle in the coming poll.
