Equality must become a reality within our lifetimes. The World Economic Forum is helping drive two approaches towards closing the gender gap globally.

Saadia Zahidi 18 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

The world's richest countries are skimping on parental leave: UNICEF

Some of the wealthiest nations in the world provide little or no government-supported maternity or paternity leave for new parents, a United Nations report has said.

Kate Ryan · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 18 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

The punishment gap: how workplace mistakes hurt women and minorities most

In finance, medicine, politics and even in schools, women and minorities are more harshly reprimanded and face greater future consequences for their errors.

Abhishek Parajuli 18 Jun 2019

Human Rights

Georgia's first Pride march will go ahead, organizers vow after threats

Georgia’s first LGBT+ Pride event is a six-day celebration and includes a play, conference and street parade, which has drawn threats from ultra-nationalists.

Umberto Bacchi · Reuters 18 Jun 2019

India

With a little help from my friends: the social lives of married women in rural India

Research into the social lives of women in rural India has revealed that local support groups can help provide a social network that is otherwise lacking for many.

Eeshani Kandpal · World Bank 17 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

With flowers and personal stories, Japan sexual abuse survivors seek reform

Victims of sexual violence say the law is allowing rapists to escape justice.

Linda Sieg · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 17 Jun 2019

Big Data

How male bias in data collection puts female lives at risk

Caroline Criado Perez, campaigner and author of 'Invisible Women', says the male bias in data collection is putting female lives at risk and needs to be countered.

Caroline Criado Perez · Chatham House 14 Jun 2019

Gender Parity

Women in Switzerland have gone on strike - this is why

Switzerland’s policies in support of women have lagged behind many of its European neighbours - so women are taking to the streets in protest.

Charlotte Edmond 14 Jun 2019

Gender Parity

Sexist or supportive? Jury out on free travel for women in Delhi

India's solution to its widening gender inequality issue is to make public transport free for women. But the move is facing both support and criticism.

Thomson Reuters Foundation · Reuters 11 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

There isn't a single country on track to make the UN's targets for gender equality

A new report finds even the nations performing best on gender equality have some way to go.

Charlotte Edmond 11 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

5 new female-led companies achieve billion-dollar status

Unicorn companies are start-ups that achieve a one-billion-dollar valuation. At the moment, there are 357 unicorn companies

Derek Beres · Big Think 11 Jun 2019

Oceans

Gender parity has a huge role to play in the fight to save our oceans

A lack of gender diversity is stifling the innovation, productivity and solutions women can offer for creating sustainable ocean livelihoods - and that has to change. It's time to highl...

Peter Thomson and Isabella Lövin 07 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

Most men still don't take paternity leave, according to a new study

Fewer than half of men took the full time offered after birth or adoption, according to the international survey.

Ellen Wulfhorst · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 07 Jun 2019

Gender Parity

Women’s World Cup: extra time to reflect on the broader injustices women and girls face

As we approach the 2019 Women's World Cup, here's how female sports teams and associations around the world are making gradual progress towards gender equality.

Sarah Zipp and Lilamani de Soysa · The Conversation 07 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

Mexico unveils gender-neutral school uniforms policy

State-run schools in Mexico's capital have removed gender-specific school uniforms, government officials have announced.

Reuters 07 Jun 2019

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Accelerating gender parity in Globalization 4.0

The world's richest countries are skimping on parental leave: UNICEF

The punishment gap: how workplace mistakes hurt women and minorities most

Georgia's first Pride march will go ahead, organizers vow after threats

With a little help from my friends: the social lives of married women in rural India

With flowers and personal stories, Japan sexual abuse survivors seek reform

How male bias in data collection puts female lives at risk

Women in Switzerland have gone on strike - this is why

Sexist or supportive? Jury out on free travel for women in Delhi

There isn't a single country on track to make the UN's targets for gender equality

5 new female-led companies achieve billion-dollar status

Gender parity has a huge role to play in the fight to save our oceans

Most men still don't take paternity leave, according to a new study

Women’s World Cup: extra time to reflect on the broader injustices women and girls face

Mexico unveils gender-neutral school uniforms policy

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