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Ghana has ambitious policies on gender equity but is struggling to realise them.
Research finds that poor households in rural Indonesia tend to prioritise high-cost schooling options for sons, while sending daughters to under-resourced Islamic schools. Why is this the case?
TERF is not a slur. Instead, we should use words that accurately describe how some feminists are actually anti-trans activists.
You’ve heard pregnant women talk about nesting, whether that’s painting the nursery, or cleaning the house from top to bottom before their baby arrives. But new research turns ‘nesting’ on its head.
Small business grants are supposed to help Colombia’s disarmed FARC fighters start new lives as entrepreneurs. But interviews with 12 female ex-insurgents suggests the government plan may fail women.
An economics professor investigates why college men are more likely to push back when they don’t get the grades they want.
More women on corporate boards means more opportunities for women, and better performances by businesses.
Men seem less comfortable celebrating their friendships – to their own detriment.
The group seemed to be doing all of the right things to diversify its ranks. It wasn’t enough.
Ireland’s new abortion law is a progressive one. But the resulting abortion service erects serious barriers for some people seeking abortions in Ireland.
Government policy must do more to reflect the fact that rape isn’t just something that happens to women and girls.
Predictions about how a woman presidential candidate might fare in 2020 are largely speculation, writes a political scientist, because there isn’t enough experience to base those predictions on.
Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
In Mauritius there’s been little change in cultural norms and values to genuinely support gender egalitarianism.
Women are earning less in average than men, however there is a staggering 27.60% difference in salary for women who are under 30 years old.
Identifying and overcoming barriers to equitable participation in social and economic life can improve the well-being of coastal communities.
COP25 has come and gone, another missed opportunity to use women’s knowledge to mitigate climate change.
Transgender people experience high rates of discrimination in housing and shelter services.
The persistence of this trope might say something about the barriers women in media continue to face.
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