EDITOR’S NOTE: Funding for the CNN As Equals project ended in December 2025. One final instalment in the series released in March 2026.
Note: This page was last updated in June 2024.
As Equals is a CNN project that aims to reveal what systemic gender inequality looks like.
There is a gendered dimension to every one of our major global challenges including, but not limited to: climate change, economic or health inequality, the rise of authoritarianism, mass migration or algorithmic bias. Critical, tenacious journalism is required to expose it all.
With stories on underreported issues in underreported parts of the world, told by underrepresented voices, As Equals…

