Natalie Portman spoke out about gender inequality in the entertainment industry in a recent interview with People. “For myself I feel
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The Main Reason Women Make Less Money Than Men
More than half of the pay gap between the genders can be explained by the fact that women tend to
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Health Care’s Inequality Problem
One of the underestimated aspects of Obamacare’s impact on the economy is the effect it’s had in driving inequality. Health
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Year in Review: The Biggest Stories About Gender Inequality at Work
Gender inequality in the workplace continued to be a subject of contention this past year. Companies from Netflix to Goldman
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What Gender Inequality Looks Like in Collegiate Sports
This week marks the commencement of March Madness, the NCAA’s knockout basketball tournament that’s so captivating it can result in
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Clinton and Bush take competing views on race inequality to Florida conference
Presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush offered a rare preview of a potential 2016 general election matchup on Friday, taking their
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Unequal Pay’s Lasting Legacy: Lost Income From Your 1st Day at Work Until the Day You Die
It’s certainly not news that American women continue to earn less than men for the same work, typically 79 cents on
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Age discrimination is still seen as okay in the workplace
Every fortnight or so, 58-year-old James Clark hosts a ‘tea and teach’ session at Barclays’ high-street branch in Ealing Broadway,
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Income Inequality Is Wider in Atlanta Than in San Francisco or Boston
The gap between rich and poor has expanded in U.S. cities, and nowhere is that chasm wider than Atlanta. The top
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States Take Lead On Equal Pay, With Legislation Stalled In Congress
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed his first piece of legislation, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, seven years ago
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Social inequality: A blind spot for health reporters
Dozens of news stories over the past year have reported on the disturbing data showing that Americans are dying younger
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Vancouver woman draws inspiration from Oscar winner to promote gender equality
Actress Patricia Arquette inspired many with her acceptance speech addressing gender and pay equality at last month’s Academy Awards, but a Vancouver woman is taking
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Escape from inequality
INEQUALITY, especially social and economic inequality, was put squarely on the international agenda when French economist Thomas Piketty last year
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The gender pay gap persists almost everywhere
ON AVERAGE women earn 18% less than men, according to analysis by Korn Ferry Hay Group, a consulting firm which
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Gender inequality in the workplace goes beyond the “pay gap”
It’s 2016 and women are represented in nearly every profession. The wage gap narrowed to less than 5 percent, according
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Why It Matters When Hollywood Actresses Talk About Pay Equality
This week everyone was talking about “House of Cards” — not because Netflix just dropped a new season on us,
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Income Inequality May Cause Boys to Drop Out of High School More Often
The stark reality of the U.S. is that people born poor are likely to remain that way. But the exact
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A Solution To Closing The Gender Gap Is Literally In The Palm Of Your Hands
Women in certain countries are less likely than men to own a key tool for fighting gender inequality: smartphones. A recent
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Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap
IT’S DECEPTIVELY EASY to calculate how much—or how little—women in the United States earn relative to men. “You take everyone
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This Is The Surprising Career Path Of Many Women
Leaning in? They’ve been doing it for decades. The workforce might be a woman’s world as much as a
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Why politicians are asking the wrong questions about gender inequality
ONE issue that virtually every Democratic presidential candidate has weighed in on this year is the wage gap between the
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What’s Driving Inequality: CEO Pay or Company Success?
Income inequality has often been attributed to top executives reaping a windfall while their workers’ pay stagnates. As my Capital
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Is Australia’s Gender Wage Gap Linked To School Subject Selection?
Women may be underrepresented in high-paying jobs in engineering and information technology because of their choice of subjects studied in
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Girls learn app coding to navigate a way out of their Mumbai slum
Ansuja Madival’s mother, who works as a maid, had never touched a tablet before, so the 15-year-old had to show
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NHS reforms could tackle the racial inequalities in mental health services
This week’s final Count Me In census is the last report to record the inpatient experience of black and minority
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‘Blacks for sale’ online ad sparks outrage in Brazil
Rio De Janeiro – A shocking ad on one of Latin America’s biggest online marketplaces, offering “blacks for sale for
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Groups Unite Across America to Protest Police Shootings
WASHINGTON — A coalition of black racial-justice organizations started a series of coordinated demonstrations in more than a dozen cities
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Why age discrimination is worse for women
It’s something that’s started to get on peoples’ nerves in pop culture: Hollywood seems totally open to older male actors, but aside
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How to end the UK’s gender pay gap
More than three decades after the equal pay act, the gender pay gap still stands at about 19%, with the
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NHS told to do more to ‘reduce health inequalities’
The report, supported by the British Medical Association, says more needs to be done to reduce the health divide between
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