According to research, the overwhelming majority of patents are filed by men. The UK's Intellectual Property Office found that in 2018 only 13.07% of global patent applications were assoc...

Niall McCarthy · Statista 11 Oct 2019

India

5 things that happened at #ies19

These are five key talking points from the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2019.

04 Oct 2019

Education and Skills

This is what one of India's top female bankers did to help women juggle work and family commitments

Arundhati Bhattacharya took steps to address women's family responsibilities, allowing them to stay in their careers.

Niharika Sharma · Quartz 04 Oct 2019

Gender Parity

What AI reads about women, pity Canada & Switzerland and other top stories of the week

Also in this week's round-up, read opinions on climate change by country, India's $6 trillion opportunity and the world's biggest diaspora.

Adrian Monck 04 Oct 2019

Gender Parity

She'd just won Wimbledon, but this was the first question Sania Mirza was asked

Sania Mirza is a sportsperson and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia. At the press conference after her Wimbledon win in 2015, she was asked about her plans for motherhood.

Joe Myers 03 Oct 2019

India

These are India's most powerful businesswomen

Women working in media and entertainment feature heavily in this year's list of those making an impact in corporate India.

Kate Whiting · x 03 Oct 2019

Gender Parity

This machine read 3.5 million books then told us what it thought about men and women

This artificial intelligence read an astonishing 3.5 million books to discover the narrative around men and women. Women tend to be defined physically whilst men are illustrated by behavi...

Maria Hornbek · Futurity 30 Sep 2019

Book Club

Are these the 6 best science books of 2019?

Caroline Criado Perez is the winner of the prestigious 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Here's what the judges said about her book on gender bias in data - and th...

Kate Whiting 27 Sep 2019

Gender Parity

Excluding trans athletes is 'dehumanising' says female-to-male boxer

The world's first male transgender professional boxer has been chosen as the public face of global boxing brand Everlast and has labelled exclusion of trans athletes as 'dehumanising'.

Hugo Greenhalgh · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 27 Sep 2019

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Greta Thunberg inspires youth activists in fight against child marriage

Without greater efforts, another 150 million girls will be married before their 18th birthday by 2030. Climate change activist Greta Thunberg has inspired this group to take action.

Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 27 Sep 2019

Gender Parity

Survey finds 'sextortion' rife in Latin America, women worst hit

'Sextortion', the abuse of power to obtain sexual favours, is becoming increasingly prevalent in Latin America, with one in five people having experience of the form of corruption.

Anastasia Moloney · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 25 Sep 2019

Gender Parity

Women need to be recognised for their part in men's academic prestige

A long tradition exists of minimizing women scholars academic work. Mary Quayle Innis worked with her husband at the University of Toronto, and her diaries document the extent to which sh...

Donica Belisle and Kiera Mitchell · x 24 Sep 2019

Gender Parity

Traditional gender roles often re-emerge after natural disasters, researchers have found

Disasters can cement traditional gender roles, researchers found, with women saying they were often sidelined in recovery efforts.

Emma Batha · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 24 Sep 2019

Gender Parity

These 200 women are carving out a new future for women's ice hockey

Citing unsustainable salaries and poor resources, over 200 players formed the Professional Women's Hockey Players' Association (PWHPA) in May, aiming to reshape the trajectory of the sport.

Reuters Staff · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 23 Sep 2019

Gender Parity

How can we STEM the tide of women graduates leaving science?

Designing a new world means we need a mixture of new policies and stories about women making waves in science, technology and innovation.

Shamika Sirimanne 20 Sep 2019

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5 things that happened at #ies19

This is what one of India's top female bankers did to help women juggle work and family commitments

What AI reads about women, pity Canada & Switzerland and other top stories of the week

She'd just won Wimbledon, but this was the first question Sania Mirza was asked

These are India's most powerful businesswomen

This machine read 3.5 million books then told us what it thought about men and women

Are these the 6 best science books of 2019?

Excluding trans athletes is 'dehumanising' says female-to-male boxer

Greta Thunberg inspires youth activists in fight against child marriage

Survey finds 'sextortion' rife in Latin America, women worst hit

Women need to be recognised for their part in men's academic prestige

Traditional gender roles often re-emerge after natural disasters, researchers have found

These 200 women are carving out a new future for women's ice hockey

How can we STEM the tide of women graduates leaving science?

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