Jane Little
Partnership editor for Across Women's Lives
The WorldJane Little is partnership editor for Across Women's Lives, PRI The World's coverage of how the status of women affects the well-being of society.
I’m thrilled to work once again with a great team of colleagues at PRI’s The World, this time on an ambitious new venture to examine how the status of women affects the overall well-being of society. It's a new beat called Across Women's Lives.I was a graduate student in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when I started as a producer at the newly-launched show, PRI's The World. I learned my trade there and plied it later in London, where I created the role of Religious Affairs Correspondent for the BBC World Service. That job took me all over the world for a decade.I then stayed in a studio for a while, hosting a variety of BBC radio current affairs programs, including Woman’s Hour, the well-loved daily program that explores life from a woman’s perspective.But I couldn’t get America out of my system. I’ve lived there several times since those student days, worked as a BBC Washington Correspondent, hosted public events, consulted for academic organizations, written communications plans, done media training, made documentaries, and returned to PRI's The World to establish the role of Religion Editor.I’m now back for a third stint, this time as partnership editor for Across Womens' Lives. I'll be working to engage people and organizations in this ground-breaking initiative to not just increase coverage of women, nor merely to highlight the many challenges they face (as important as those are), but to show the power and potential of women to move whole societies toward a better future.
Nun vs Warlord: the secret weapon is love (and sewing)
Decades of conflict in northern Uganda ended up traumatizing thousands of girls. Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe has been taking them in and teaching them new skills: how to sew and make crafts to support their families. But beyond that, Sister Rosemary wants them to learn self-respect. In return, she says, she’s learned from them how to forgive.
Mormon women are flocking to the mission, but inequalities remain
The Mormon Church is well-known for its worldwide proselytizing force. Now large numbers of young women are joining up thanks a change in policy that lowered the minimum age for female missionaries to 19. But gender gaps remain between men and women.
