International Women's Day (March 8 th) is an annual reminder of the ongoing struggle for gender equality worldwide. But raising awareness of gender inequality alone won't solve the problem. Year after ...

Climate governance is dominated by men, yet the health impacts of the climate crisis often affect women, girls, and gender-diverse people disproportionately, argue researchers ahead of the upcoming ...

"Women are the problem"—this unspoken narrative has been circulating in the world of work for decades. Countless initiatives and programs are designed to make women "fit" for a career. But what if the ...

Researchers have developed and validated a new tool for comparing gender inequality among different regions of a country, highlighting links between gender inequality, wellbeing, and participation in ...

A major reason there has been so little progress in ending gender inequality is the fact that few men are actively working to end it. In Beyond Bias: The PATH to End Gender Inequality at Work, a new ...

Unequal power dynamics across society have resounding negative impacts on how women interact with cancer prevention, care and treatment. According to a new Lancet Commission, gender inequality and ...

You’ve heard about the glass ceiling, but what about the sticky floor? For some working women, it’s an even worse problem The sticky floor is a structural trap that keeps women concentrated in ...

Women looked at the rubble of their collapsed house, in Mandalay, Myanmar, April 3, 2025 (Kyodo News photo via AP Images). Though earthquakes are not climate-related, other natural disasters are ...

This year, we are commemorating International Women’s Day alongside the three-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. While COVID-19 affected everyone, it did not affect everyone equally. The ...

Study finds that just 8% of all depictions of AI professionals from a century of film are women -- and half of these are shown as subordinate to men. Cinema promotes AI as the product of lone male ...

This paper documents the current state of gender inequalities in the WAEMU by focusing on outcomes (health, education, labor market and financial inclusion) and opportunities (economic rights). The ...

The gender pension gap in the EU is more than double the gender pay gap. Experts point to additional factors, including gaps in hours worked and contribution years, which largely result from gender ...