Herlands: Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules Kindle Edition

Herlands is a powerful and necessary reminder that women’s leadership is not an exception; it is tradition, it is history, and it is the future. With the clarity and care of a journalist who listens deeply, Megha Mohan honours the systems women have sustained for generations — Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Prime Minister of Samoa

A lantern in the dark, revealing the quiet power of women-led communities across the globe. With lyrical precision and journalistic integrity, Megha Mohan gathers their stories like sacred threads, weaving a tapestry of resilience, leadership, and radical hope ― Sulaima Ishaq, head of Sudan’s Combating Violence Against Women and Children Commission

An immersive and absorbing read from a journalist who takes trust, tone and ethics seriously — Bhavana Menon, award-winning actress who inspired Women in Cinema Collective

Megha Mohan is the BBC’s first global gender and identity correspondent. She covers issues concerning women’s rights and LGBT communities, as well as race and ethnicity, for the BBC’s 41 language services. She has travelled to and reported from six continents and secured exclusive interviews with, among others, Finland’s women-led coalition government, Samoa’s first woman Prime Minister and pop star Billie Eilish. Many of Mohan’s interviews, including a recent conversation with Elliot Page, have gone viral. In November 2023, she exclusively travelled with and interviewed Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney and Melinda French Gates for a special two-part documentary on the devasting effects of child marriage in Malawi for the BBC World Service.

Mohan was named in Progress 1000’s list of most influential storytellers and is also the co-founder of Second Source, a network of women journalists from non-traditional backgrounds. She has also consulted on Level Up’s media guidelines on sensitively reporting domestic violence and presented them at the International Journalism Festival and Reuters Institute of Journalism.