For Women In Asia, Motherhood Is A Complicated Investment – Analysis

By Boer Deng

When Helen* fled her home in Myanmar’s Kayah state, she had only two diapers to take for her soon-to-be-born baby. She had spent the first months of her pregnancy avoiding the war, but the fighting caught up to her hometown and she was forced to leave. Her daughter was born in a hut on New Year’s Day, on a...