When correspondent Desi Lydic of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah saw that the U.S. ranked 49 on an annual scale of gender equality in 2017, she set off to countries that beat it. Traveling to Iceland, Namibia, Spain -- numbers one, 13 and 25 respectively in the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap Report -- she talked to powerful women and explored the cultural conversations that were driving change.
NewsHour Weekend recently spoke with Lydic about what she learned, the role of comedy in raising awareness about equality, and how she'll apply it to election coverage.