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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Category: Gender Inequality
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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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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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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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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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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Group calls on Trudeau to appoint gender-balanced Senate
A group of Canadian women has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make the Senate gender-equal. 82 women signed an open
Read moreMichelle Obama Rounded Up an Amazing Squad for the ‘United State Of Women’
When it comes to squad goals, leave it to Michelle Obama to round up the most badass women to have
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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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Where Girls Are Missing Out on High-School Sports
Forty-three years ago, a federal law was passed requiring what today seems like a no-brainer: gender equality in schools. Over
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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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Analysis: Obama Building a Legacy on Gender Equality Issues
Gender equality is one of those issues that President Barack Obama takes very personally. “We’re going to keep pushing until
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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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