2016

Cupo femenino: 25 años y una representación estancada
Twenty-five years after Argentina became the first country to enact a gender quota for electoral candidates, Laura Zommer shared the continued challenges to women’s political participation.

2017

Homeless Women Veterans Struggle to Be Seen
With the number of homeless women veterans in the U.S. growing, Lily Casura developed a series on the unique — and often invisible — experiences of women returning from service.

2018

Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
Japan’s aging population led Shiho Fukada to investigate a phenomenon of elderly women shoplifting in search of community and stability in prison.

2019

Rebuilding post-genocide Rwanda through women groups
Millicent Mwololo chronicled a Rwandan cooperative training women to make and sell bricks – helping the country rebuild both physically and socioeconomically after genocide.

2020

Sri Lankan Tamil women fight for land a decade after war ends
After the Sri Lankan civil war, Rina Chandran documented the women seeking to reclaim their homes by staging a three-year long protest on ancestral land.

2021

Excluded: How women suffer from digital poverty in the UK
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the disproportionate number of women without digital literacy or access to computers in the United Kingdom, Amandas Ong found.

2022

In Kashmir, Counter­insurgents’ Widows Fight to Save Their Sons
Reporting from Kashmir, Aliya Bashir shared the efforts women made to protect their sons from extreme and pervasive violence after their husbands were murdered.

2023

How breast milk banks could avert the next formula crisis
Sushma Subramanian explores Brazil’s breast milk donation program and the women organizing, donating to and benefiting from it.