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Natalie Portman Says Hollywood Has ‘A Long Ways To Go’ Toward Gender Equality

June 28, 2018 admin Gender Inequality

Natalie Portman spoke out about gender inequality in the entertainment industry in a recent interview with People. “For myself I feel

Year in Review: The Biggest Stories About Gender Inequality at Work

June 14, 2018 admin Gender Inequality

Gender inequality in the workplace continued to be a subject of contention this past year. Companies from Netflix to Goldman

What Gender Inequality Looks Like in Collegiate Sports

June 8, 2018 admin Gender Inequality

This week marks the commencement of March Madness, the NCAA’s knockout basketball tournament that’s so captivating it can result in

Vancouver woman draws inspiration from Oscar winner to promote gender equality

May 2, 2018 admin Gender Inequality

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

The gender pay gap persists almost everywhere

April 18, 2018 admin Gender Inequality

ON AVERAGE women earn 18% less than men, according to analysis by Korn Ferry Hay Group, a consulting firm which

Gender inequality in the workplace goes beyond the “pay gap”

March 29, 2018 admin Gender Inequality

It’s 2016 and women are represented in nearly every profession. The wage gap narrowed to less than 5 percent, according

A Solution To Closing The Gender Gap Is Literally In The Palm Of Your Hands

February 13, 2018 admin Gender Inequality

Women in certain countries are less likely than men to own a key tool for fighting gender inequality: smartphones. A recent

Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap

February 12, 2018 admin Gender Inequality

IT’S DECEPTIVELY EASY to calculate how much—or how little—women in the United States earn relative to men. “You take everyone

This Is The Surprising Career Path Of Many Women

January 6, 2018 admin Gender Inequality

Leaning in? They’ve been doing it for decades. The workforce might be a woman’s world as much as a

Why politicians are asking the wrong questions about gender inequality

December 20, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

ONE issue that virtually every Democratic presidential candidate has weighed in on this year is the wage gap between the

Girls learn app coding to navigate a way out of their Mumbai slum

December 12, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

Ansuja Madival’s mother, who works as a maid, had never touched a tablet before, so the 15-year-old had to show

How to end the UK’s gender pay gap

November 5, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

More than three decades after the equal pay act, the gender pay gap still stands at about 19%, with the

Montreal city councillor lobbies for more women on Canadian bills

October 22, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

MONTREAL – Move over Wilfrid Laurier, Robert Borden and William Lyon – there’s a new woman in town and one

Group calls on Trudeau to appoint gender-balanced Senate

August 22, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

A group of Canadian women has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make the Senate gender-equal. 82 women signed an open

Michelle Obama Rounded Up an Amazing Squad for the ‘United State Of Women’

August 14, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

When it comes to squad goals, leave it to Michelle Obama to round up the most badass women to have

Jack Monroe: ‘I want to be treated as a person, not as a woman or a man’

May 20, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

It was only three years ago that Jack Monroe burst into the public consciousness. She was 24, a single mother living in

Where Girls Are Missing Out on High-School Sports

April 23, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

Forty-three years ago, a federal law was passed requiring what today seems like a no-brainer: gender equality in schools. Over

Gender equality: more than half of women fear their gender will hurt their career

April 8, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

More than half of female students believe gender may hold them back in their career, a study has found. Only

Vancouver councillor wants at least half of committee members to be women

January 28, 2017 admin Gender Inequality

Vancouver may soon follow the federal government’s footsteps on gender equality by requiring at least half of all committee members

What Gender Pay-Gap Statistics Aren’t Capturing

December 21, 2016 admin Gender Inequality

In discussions of the gender-pay gap, there’s one counter-argument that comes up a lot: The gap isn’t real, because after

Homeland’ Director Lesli Linka Glatter Finds Hollywood Gender Inequality ‘Unacceptable’

November 26, 2016 admin Gender Inequality

No women were nominated for Outstanding Drama Director at last year’s Emmy awards, when the Academy president spoke about TV

‘Girl talk’ or ‘career exploration’? Texas school’s gender segregation peeves parents

July 1, 2016 admin Gender Inequality

“Girl talk” and “more girl talk” for girls; college, career and finances for the boys — that’s the split curriculum for

Google wants new emojis to represent professional women

June 29, 2016 admin Gender Inequality

In a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, which controls specifications for emojis, Google says it wants to create a new

Gender equality: more than half of women fear their gender will hurt their career

June 28, 2016 admin Gender Inequality

More than half of female students believe gender may hold them back in their career, a study has found. Only

Analysis: Obama Building a Legacy on Gender Equality Issues

April 6, 2016 admin Gender Inequality

Gender equality is one of those issues that President Barack Obama takes very personally. “We’re going to keep pushing until

Gender Inequality and Women in the Workplace

March 3, 2016 admin Gender Inequality

Such inequality is hardly unique to the United States, however. In the following Q&A, Mary Brinton—sociology professor at Harvard University