Most US employees on average want to work from home at least two days per week after the pandemic ends, research finds.
![The current patchwork of the 'great return' to the office models has many questioning whether there’s an optimal hybrid approach - for workers and the bottom line [File: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/365885686.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Most US employees on average want to work from home at least two days per week after the pandemic ends, research finds.
![The current patchwork of the 'great return' to the office models has many questioning whether there’s an optimal hybrid approach - for workers and the bottom line [File: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/365885686.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Report finds the Caribbean suffers billions in lost tourism and productivity each year due to anti-LGBTQ laws.

Economists estimate countries are losing billions of dollars a year due to homophobia and anti-LGBTQ laws and practices.
![By limiting a person’s access to jobs, education and healthcare - and by erecting other barriers - anti-LGBTQ laws prevent people from fully participating in a nation’s economy, which is a drag on economic growth, to the detriment of the entire nation [File: Craig Ruttle/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP19181659331501.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Though the US economy is recovering, the pandemic may have cost women years of progress in the workplace.
![Dawn Morgan Neary, mother of two, quit her job in November due to the demands of looking after her young children [File: courtesy Dawn Morgan Neary]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Dawn-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
New York City Health + Hospitals’s Syra Madad on the women who inspired her at home and in her work in public health.
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Civic change agent Sarah Williams tells the story of the grandmother who inspires her to fight for racial justice.
![[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Womens-Series-1.png?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
A cadre of Black women in Louisville is honouring Taylor’s legacy by giving back to their communities.
!['Before they said activist revolutionaries don’t make good politicians. We’re turning that [notion] on its head,' said 44-year-old Shameka Parrish-Wright, who plans to run for Louisville mayor in 2022 [Chris Kenning/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/0F9A9376-2.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
It will take more than stimulus aid and moratoriums to solve a housing crisis that hits Americans of colour hardest.
![United States housing activists say the federal eviction moratorium and state and local protections are important but don't go far enough in safeguarding tenants [File: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-10-01T175552Z_1159402849_RC2T9J9PZ1VK_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-EVICTIONS.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Dozens of businesses took action against US President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers after the Capitol riot.
![Trump has long boasted about his business acumen and corporate connections, but company after company cut ties with him following the violent siege at the US Capitol by his supporters [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-12T151430Z_186536507_RC2F6L9LRCDX_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Local BLM organisers reflect on a year that rocked the United States and chart their priorities for 2021.
