Emma-Kate Symons, Women in the World

Emma-Kate Symons

Women in the World

Washington, DC, United States

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Past:
  • Women in the World
  • Quartz
  • The Lowy Institute
  • Foreign Policy
  • Financial Review

Past articles by Emma-Kate:

Woman opens up about her resurrection after years spent as ‘one of the living dead’ – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

Henda Ayari, 40, is a true survivor — but survival is not enough. She’s fighting for change and has taken her agenda straight to the new president of France → Read More

The simple fix that could make the US a lot better at democracy (and more like the French)

When just under 75% of eligible voters cast ballots in the deciding round of the French presidential election last month, there was much hand-wringing about rising civic disillusionment and apathy (link in French). It was the lowest participation rate in France since 1969, compared to voter turnouts of upwards of 80% in the two most recent races... → Read More

All the ways France in 2017 resembles Weimar Germany in 1932

While Emmanuel Macron is still expected to win the French presidential election on Sunday, his victory will be marred by the spectacular rise of extreme right nationalist Marine Le Pen. The National Front (FN) candidate has successfully normalized much of her party’s hardline anti-immigrant nativist agenda while painting herself as a champion of the working Frenchman. If Macron... → Read More

Why French women fear Marine Le Pen – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

The woman who could be France's first female president is no feminist sister → Read More

Surge of women clamoring to run for public office in wake of 2016 election outcome – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

Donald Trump’s election to the White House ‘is the biggest slap in the face for women that we have arguably had since the Anita Hill hearing’ → Read More

Le Pen’s support grows but Macron still in front

Macron's future will be determined not only by his win, but by his margin of victory. → Read More

All the ways Emmanuel Macron could still lose the French election

Pollsters, and even a few confidantes in his inner circle, are already declaring Emmanuel Macron the next president of France. In their reckoning, extreme right candidate Marine Le Pen, an anti-immigrant Europhobe who bashes globalization, has no credible path to victory in France's May 7 run-off. But not everyone is so convinced. Less sanguine observers of French politics... → Read More

Conservatives need to get over their Le Pen crush

Western conservatives and free-market liberals appear to be losing their ideological and moral bearings when it comes to French politics. → Read More

The big winner in the French election will be Vladimir Putin

poVladimir Putin’s fortunes may be declining in the United States, but he is still well placed to win big in the French presidential election. Three of the four leading candidates in the race for the Elysee Palace—all with a realistic chance of making it through the first round of voting next Sunday (April 23) and into the final run-off on May 7—are unabashed pro-Putin... → Read More

The Holocaust-Denying, Vichy-Celebrating Heart of the National Front

A new spate of reporting in France shows Marine Le Pen's party is not nearly as reformed as she claims. → Read More

Activist speaks out at summit, urges world to think beyond male and female – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

The transgender woman, who won the right for Indians to legally choose a third gender, told her incredible life story and talked about being happily married → Read More

Yazidi woman, enslaved by ISIS, shares her story of survival – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

“They did every bad thing they could do to me,” says Shireen Ibrahim → Read More

Zineb El Rhazoui: As journalists, we must fight Islamic fascism – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

A former Charlie Hebdo journalist and an activist, both French Muslims, clashed over the fight against Muslim extremism → Read More

Hillary Clinton: ‘As a person, I’m OK. As an American, I’m pretty worried’ – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

In the wake of the election, Clinton condemns Russian interference and urges younger women to run for office → Read More

Gretchen Carlson: ‘In 2017, every damn woman still has a story’ – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

The former Fox presenter talks about workplace harassment — and bringing Roger Ailes down → Read More

Nikki Haley tells it like it is: ‘Greta, we don’t do soft power’ – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley powered through a sometimes hostile reception at the Women in the World Summit, talking tough on Russia in the wake of the Syrian chemical attacks → Read More

Agenda for Women’s March has been hijacked by organizers bent on highlighting women’s differences – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

It saddens me to see the inclusive liberal feminism I grew up with reduced to a grab-bag of competing victimhood narratives and individualist identities jostling for most-oppressed status → Read More

Francois Hollande’s demise proves the West’s center-left is in free fall

The Hollande malaise mirrors the plight of fractured liberal parties in the US and UK that have been blindsided by nationalism and anti-establishment sentiment. → Read More

Zineb el Rhazoui, Charlie Hebdo survivor, discusses why the world needs to ‘Destroy Islamic Fascism’ – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

Undeterred by fatwas and death threats, the author has released an incendiary and thoughtful new book, bound to provoke debate → Read More

Meet the founder of the French jihad-busting Mothers’ Brigade – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW

Nadia Remadna is on a grassroots mission to save her children and their peers from recruitment into lives of crime and extremism → Read More