ALIGN Blog

By Lelemba Phiri

I just made my first foray into the world of angel investing after leaving Zoona, an amazing start-up turned scale-up, after more than six years. I have been an advocate for women’s economic empowerment for as long as I can remember, starting at the age of eight as a loan shark to my siblings and friends. But that’s another story! 

I planned to take a year out to travel. But two months later, touring around France, it struck me how fortunate I was to be an educated, black, African woman, under 40, from an ordinary family, with plenty of work experience, who did not need to work just at that moment... 

By Suzanne Petroni

A group of researchers and activists from a dozen countries recently convened in Kigali, Rwanda, to talk about a topic often missing from events focused on gender issues: getting men to care. The specific focus of the conversation was how to get men to care about the unpaid domestic work that is – everywhere in the world – carried out mostly by women. 

By Bapu Vaitla

Measuring gender norms is very difficult. There is no consensus-based scale on which to measure their intensity. People may obscure or misrepresent what they believe; moral attitudes and group identities are also highly dynamic, changing in response to socioeconomic circumstances.

By Bassam Abu Hamad

Although Gaza is part of what is religiously perceived as a blessed, holy land of peace, it is a cursed place that has seen protracted conflict for decades, tangibly affecting the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents.