Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
Bra-pinging, groping, sexual innuendoes, unwanted advances. It might sound like a scene from the retro television series Mad Men, but this is the reality today for half of all women in th...
Before he’d even stepped foot in the White House, Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States, was destined to make history. In a country where segregation bet...
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, women in Iran have had to cover their hair in public. It’s a law that’s strictly enforced by Gashte Ershad, the country’s morality police. In fact, i...
Economic growth is a key topic at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017. Watch the session on 'A Positive Narrative for the Global Community' here.
She was Pakistan’s first social media celebrity, the country’s answer to Kim Kardashian. Bold, outspoken and controversial, Qandeel Baloch challenged the idea that a woman’s role was to m...
You are what you eat. And yet most of us have very little idea of what it is we’re putting in our bodies. Take the 2013 scandal that revealed processed beef products in Europe had been co...
We’re a pessimistic bunch. Last year, pollsters asked people in 17 countries whether they thought the world was getting better or worse. In all but two countries – China and Indonesia – m...
We’ve all heard enough about the gender pay gap to know that women are paid less than men for the same work, right? Well, actually, that’s just one part of the story.
On 23 June, in a historic referendum, the British public made a decision that would reverberate across the world: they voted to leave the European Union. Within just a few hours of the ne...
Globalization. It’s a term we hear thrown around all the time – even more so since Britain voted to leave the EU in a decision that was widely seen as a rejection of globalization.
It’s a country as complex as it is vast, of contrasts and contradictions, with a history spanning 5,000 years. This can make China difficult for outsiders to understand. “Today’s China is...
On 23 June, the British public will be asked to cast their vote in a referendum that has been described as the most important collective decision in a generation: whether to remain in or ...
Today was the closing of the World Economic Forum on Latin America, which saw hundreds of leaders from the region come to the Colombian city of Medellín. Here is a snapshot of some of the...
“Venezuela is in terrible shape,” President Mauricio Macri of Argentina told participants at this year’s World Economic Forum on Latin America. His comment won’t come a surprise, even to ...
The first decade of the new millennium was good to Latin America: poverty rates fell, a solid middle class was born, economies were booming. And then progress stalled. Today, the region e...
