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Category: Gender Inequality
#ClothesWithoutLimits aims to empower children, break free of gender stereotypes
MONTREAL – What do you do when you’re shopping for your daughters and everything on the rack is pink and
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Conakry hairdressers dispense cut-and-dried contraceptive advice to women
Fatoumatah Bah is cornered. Sitting in front of a tinsel-ringed mirror in Miskaa Salon, her head is bent forward, two
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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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Giving birth in Guinea: a life or death lottery bereft of midwives and medicine
A baby was born, took one breath, then left the world again. No amount of the midwife pumping his legs
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What Gender Pay-Gap Statistics Aren’t Capturing
In discussions of the gender-pay gap, there’s one counter-argument that comes up a lot: The gap isn’t real, because after
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Gender equality: more than half of women fear their gender will hurt their career
More than half of female students believe gender may hold them back in their career, a study has found. Only
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Jack Monroe: ‘I want to be treated as a person, not as a woman or a man’
It was only three years ago that Jack Monroe burst into the public consciousness. She was 24, a single mother living in
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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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‘Girl talk’ or ‘career exploration’? Texas school’s gender segregation peeves parents
“Girl talk” and “more girl talk” for girls; college, career and finances for the boys — that’s the split curriculum for
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Homeland’ Director Lesli Linka Glatter Finds Hollywood Gender Inequality ‘Unacceptable’
No women were nominated for Outstanding Drama Director at last year’s Emmy awards, when the Academy president spoke about TV
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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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Google wants new emojis to represent professional women
In a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, which controls specifications for emojis, Google says it wants to create a new
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Montreal city councillor lobbies for more women on Canadian bills
MONTREAL – Move over Wilfrid Laurier, Robert Borden and William Lyon – there’s a new woman in town and one
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You See This Gender Bias On The Road Every Day
The next time you’re walking down an unfamiliar block, take a moment to look at the street sign — chances
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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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Gender equality: more than half of women fear their gender will hurt their career
More than half of female students believe gender may hold them back in their career, a study has found. Only
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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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Threat of marriage hangs over young Malian refugee girls in Mauritania
Tinalbaraka Amano has done well to adapt to life in the desert. Three years ago, the 16-year-old had her own
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Gender Inequality and Women in the Workplace
Such inequality is hardly unique to the United States, however. In the following Q&A, Mary Brinton—sociology professor at Harvard University
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Women walk alone to reclaim India’s streets from fear and harassment
After a long and tiring day, Neha Khandelwal, 26, fell asleep on the bus in Delhi on her way home.
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Women in Elite Jobs Face Stubborn Pay Gap
On average, American women earn less than their male peers. Highly educated women fare worst of all. A Wall Street
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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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Gender Inequality on a Late Summer’s Day
I’m sunbathing on a dock by a tranquil Connecticut lake. Two dragonflies alight six inches from my nose, entwined in
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Vancouver councillor wants at least half of committee members to be women
Vancouver may soon follow the federal government’s footsteps on gender equality by requiring at least half of all committee members
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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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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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Geena Davis Is Frustrated By Hollywood’s Gender Inequality
Geena Davis is speaking out against the inequality women face in Hollywood. In an interview with The Guardian, the actress talks
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Owen Smith to pledge equal representation of women in Labour
Labour must act to ensure that half the shadow cabinet and half the party’s MPs are women, Owen Smith is to say.
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Natalie Portman Says Hollywood Has ‘A Long Ways To Go’ Toward Gender Equality
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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