Some women in Somalia have found work in its male-dominated construction industry, proving that skill, not gender, determines ...

FILE - Somali women who fled drought-stricken areas build shelters near Mogadishu, Somalia, Feb. 4, 2022. International Women's Day on March 8, 2025, honors women worldwide for their resilience ...

In a major shift in Somalia, women have joined the male-dominated traffic police to help control congestion particularly in the capital Mogadishu.The role was previously off-limits for women in ...

Somali women who fled drought-stricken areas start to build shelters at a makeshift camp on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Feb. 4, 2022. Share ...

Actor Nadjma Abshir, 29, performs a scene from the play “Desperate Times”, a sell-out comedy by the Somali women’s theatre company “Side eYe Productions”, at the Rich Mix arts centre in ...

Somali Americans will be making history in Maine’s Legislature after Mana Abdi and Deqa ... 26, is seen on Oct. 6, 2022, in Lewiston, Maine. Abdi is one of two Somali women elected to the ...

In the same light, Somali women are advised to avoid trouble and to walk away from any physical confrontation when they are pregnant. “When you are pregnant, you need all the support you can get.

Somalia has a 54-member parliament with 14 parliamentary seats occupied by women, representing 25.93 per cent, more than eight times higher than Nigeria’s parliament with 3.67 per cent female ...

Like Abdi, 26-year-old Munira Abdullahi is all but guaranteed to be the first Somali woman and first Muslim woman to serve in the Ohio Legislature because she, too, is unopposed.

Like Abdi, 26-year-old Munira Abdullahi is all but guaranteed to be the first Somali woman and first Muslim woman to serve in her state’s legislature, Ohio, because she, too, is unopposed.