NPR's Juana Summers talks with Freyja Steingrímsdóttir, the communications director for the Icelandic Federation of Public Workers. The union helped organize a strike to protest gender inequality.

The U.N. Development Program ranks sub-Saharan Africa as the worst-performing region in the Gender Inequality Index – a composite measure reflecting the disparity between women's and men’s ...

Pandemic increased gender inequality Our findings showed that the pandemic worsened the gendered division of labor among dual-career heterosexual couples working remotely.

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 ...

In the world of classical music, progress toward gender parity can seem incredibly slow. Recent big wins have included women of the New York Philharmonic being allowed to perform in pants, and 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 ...

Unveiling gender inequality in the US: Testing validity of a state-level measure of gender inequality and its relationship with feminist online collective action on Twitter. PLOS ONE , 2024; 19 (7 ...

Despite the solid growth recorded in recent years and the sustained efforts by the country, Guatemala still faces significant challenges in reducing poverty and inequality, which continue to affect a ...

In this article, we take a look at the 25 worst countries for gender equality. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of the economic impact of gender inequality, you can directly go to ...

The Global Gender Gap Report 2024 paints a sobering picture of gender inequality in the Global South. Southern Asia’s score of 63.7%, ranking seventh out of eight global regions, ...

NCAA NCAA makes progress on gender inequality at creating comparable NCAA tournament experiences: report NCAA has adequately addressed nine of 23 recommendations according to a progress report ...