The Fuller Project

At The Fuller Project, we take the long view, following ongoing patterns and major trends. Last year, we tracked the ways that women are changing the face of politics around the world, the continuing surge in domestic violence, the increasing impact of climate change on every aspect of our lives, and how, even through a post-pandemic labor participation recovery, women workers are disproportionately suffering the drawbacks of the rapidly evolving global economy. The stories we reported exposed these underlying currents and moved the needle on gender equality around the world. Read more in our 2023 Impact Report: https://lnkd.in/gzG725eE

Earlier this year The New York Times and The Fuller Project revealed that household-name companies and Indian politicians profit off a brutal system that forces children to work, pushes them into underage marriages and coerces women to get unnecessary hysterectomies to keep them working in the fields, unencumbered by menstruation or routine ailments. All of those abuses can be linked to what is known as bonded labor, a system in which workers are perpetually in debt to their employers and cannot leave. Read the follow up to this story from Qadri Inzamam, Megha Rajagopalan, and Saumya Khandelwal in this week's newsletter: https://bit.ly/3Op9eEA

Earlier this year, The Fuller Project and The New York Times revealed that household-name companies — the likes of Coca-Cola and Pepsi — profit off a brutal sugar industry in Maharashtra that forces children to work, pushes them into underage marriages, and coerces women to get unnecessary hysterectomies to keep them working in the fields. Our latest investigation with the Times uncovers why workers stick around year after year despite such abusive conditions. Trapped in what many labor activists describe as a system of debt bondage, workers thinking about quitting the sugar fields in Maharashtra risk kidnapping, assault, and even murder. Read the latest from Qadri Inzamam, Megha Rajagopalan, & Saumya Khandelwal: https://bit.ly/491l4hQ

At The Fuller Project, our reporting exposes how the climate crisis intersects with gender to shape women’s lives in specific, powerful ways. From the rise in domestic violence as climate pressures build, to the increasingly alarming impact on healthcare access, caregiving responsibilities, and workforce dynamics, we reveal the often-hidden toll on women.    As the U.S. faces potential rollbacks of environmental protections that will have global repercussions for our climate, fact-based accountability reporting by The Fuller Project will become even more critical. To meet the challenges ahead, we need your support to keep elevating the voices and experiences of women on the frontlines of this crisis. Make a gift today at https://lnkd.in/dQTmT4TH to help sustain our work. 

In their latest piece, The Fuller Project's Allan Olingo and Louise Donovan explore the crucial concerns facing Kenyan healthcare providers as they prepare for the possible impacts of a Trump presidency on reproductive health services. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4geVOHp

Breaking out of the gender silo, women activists demand demilitarization and the rejection of carbon trading at COP29. Read more from Maher Sattar in this week's newsletter: https://bit.ly/3CvxLFf

250M — the number of hours women and girls spend daily on water collection.

During the presidential campaign, Trump touted his role in overturning Roe v. Wade by nominating three anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court. But given the public backlash to the 2022 ruling and numerous stories of women who suffered life-threatening consequences, or death, he declined to outline what he would do on abortion in a second term. There are, however, many clues. Read more from Jodi Enda in this week’s newsletter: https://bit.ly/48Lq0ar

Voters chose a dark view of America that gave voice to white, male grievance over a vision of inclusivity that would have prioritized issues of particular concern to women, like reproductive rights, health care and child care. While analysts predicted women would come out in force to support Vice President Kamala Harris in the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, women's votes did not come in in big enough numbers for Harris to overcome Trump’s advantage among men. Jodi Enda provides a read out of the exit polls for The Fuller Project & Ms Magazine: https://bit.ly/3YVosXZ

137 - the number of years it will take to end extreme poverty among women.