Luba Kassova

1 month ago | thepersistent.com | Gabriella Griffith |Preeti Jha |Luba Kassova |Ruchi Kumar

Turkey — 9 min read When she was just 13, Dicle Hayat Dağdeviren’s life was upended. A massive, 7.8 magnitude earthquake flattened most of her small hometown of Adiyaman in southeastern Turkey. You certainly read about the earthquake in the news. It ravaged Turkey and Syria. It killed over 60,000 people across both countries. It was February, 2023. Shielded by her father, the teenager, now 16, survived the earthquake, but it took the lives of her mother and brother.

1 month ago | thepersistent.com | Gabriella Griffith |Preeti Jha |Luba Kassova

Money — 9 min read The Persistent is available as a newsletter. Sign up here. The world of money—the universe of wealth and trading and investments, but also, by extension, power and influence—is about to change dramatically. Sometime over the next one or two decades, we’ll witness the greatest transfer of wealth that history has ever seen—a changing of hands, by some estimates, of more than $80 trillion. And the majority will flow directly to women. Got all that? Great.

1 month ago | thepersistent.com | Preeti Jha |Luba Kassova |Gabriella Griffith

Science — 9 min read I was 11 when I got my first period. I’d heard about it at school during a “special class” (my friends and I were horrified) and my mother had told me about it, of course. She had pulled me onto a bench outside a pub on the way home from school one day to tell me what to expect. I spent the whole conversation cringing and we didn’t discuss it again. This brief conversation did little to assuage the deep shame I felt when the first drops of blood came.

Jun 21, 2024 | pressgazette.co.uk | Luba Kassova

Analysis of women's issues in election coverage as well as share of women voices.