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In the last 50 years, women have been seeking gender equality. We have been moving into the public sphere reserved for men since the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s, continually pushing for ...

Prof. Sabrina Karim, government, introduced her award-winning book about how the gender power balances of the United Nations’ peacekeeping forces “prevent the peacekeeping missions from reaching their ...

In the 2025 global gender gap index (GGGI), Japan ranks 118th out of 148 countries – still the lowest among the G7 nations and among the poorest performers globally. This is largely because of limited ...

Gender inequality isn’t just unfair — it’s also a drag on the world economy. Giving women the same economic opportunities as men would add about US$12 trillion to global gross domestic product by 2025 ...

The recent outburst against gender-based violence in South Africa is, in one sense, an oddity. For despite the ANC’s regular incantation about the building of a non-racist, non-sexist society, we all ...

The advancement of gender equality, while long overdue, has introduced complexities that affect not only women but men as well. As women continue to make strides in the workplace, many men experience ...

EU-funded researchers are investigating recent push-back against gender equality measures, seeking to understand its motives and impact, to provide practical solutions. For Zoe Lefkofridi, a professor ...

Simply put, “[t]he United States has a sex equality problem that disproportionately impacts women of color,” and thus opens the executive summary for Columbia University’s Center for Gender & ...

Gender equality is an essential component of a fair and just society, and because what happens in the world of work is a major catalyst for change in the broader population, ensuring that gender ...