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How Civil Society Groups Can Help Fight Digital Violence Against Women and Girls

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By Richeline Tan Mascarinas, Jinha Kim, Jessica Henn
| adb.org
Digital technologies shape how we learn, work, build businesses, and stay in touch across long distances. For many women and girls, online spaces open up new ways to study, earn money, lead, and take part in public life. Yet these same tools are increasingly used to harm them. Women and girls face rising and disproportionate levels of digital violence, including online harassment, image-based abuse, deepfakes, stalking, and threats. The scale of the problem is stark.
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Markets Aren’t Neutral—Why Competition Policy Needs to Pay Attention to Women

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By Yesim Elhan-Kayalar, Jessica Henn, Jinha Kim
| adb.org
Competition policy is often described as gender-neutral: markets respond to incentives, not identities. But markets don’t operate in vacuums. They are shaped by long-standing gaps between women and men in access to jobs, capital, and economic opportunities. Understanding how market rules interact with inequality is essential. Women are more likely to work in certain sectors, perform more unpaid care work, and face more barriers when starting a business or getting finance.
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Polycrises are Pushing More Women into Poverty: How can we Help Halt that Trend?

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By Jessica Henn
| Global Issues
BANGKOK, Thailand, Feb 12 (IPS) - Let’s call her Anita. Four years ago, her life took an unexpected turn when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted everything she knew. As businesses closed and economic uncertainty loomed, Anita, like countless others, found herself forced out of work. Providing for her three young children became a daily struggle, prompting her to seek informal work as a subsistence agricultural worker to ease the financial burden.
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