gender equality
More than two million girls are missing education or employment opportunities because our society values women’s appearance as their social currency.
The kind of language Boris Johnson uses – and has used throughout his career – should never be acceptable. But outrage doesn’t get us anywhere without action, WEP leader Mandu Reid writes.
Ms. Monopoly hits the shelves this month, trading its classic properties for female inventions like Wi-Fi and solar heating.
I’m not raising my son to be a ‘man’. I’m raising my son to be a human being.
NDAs have no place in modern society. There can never be a real assessment of the gender pay gap while the fog of corporate secrecy continues to hide the truth, journalist Harriet Marsden writes.
When a direct "no" is not an option, there are ways to tactfully turn down a coffee request, joining a planning committee or doing office housework.
Women may still have to fight against many barriers to equality, but how much better it would be if our daughters didn’t have to? Conservative MP Helen Whately writes
Starting at midnight on June 13, women in Switzerland began a series of demonstrations to protest gender-based workplace inequality. According to a World Economic Forum report, Switzerland ranks 44th for wage equality in a 2018 study of 149 countries. Despite enacting gender equality laws in 1991, Swiss women still earn on average 20% less than their male counterparts.
The 2019 Cannes Film Festival opened on 14 May, with Jim Jarmusch’s ‘The Dead Don’t Die’. Amidst all the usual glitz and glamour though, this year’s opening was a somewhat low-key affair as controversies over gender equality and the clout of streaming services like Netflix have overshadowed the famous French festival.
