Why aren’t there as many female tenured professors?
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Many research universities have adopted ‘family-friendly’ tenure rules to help women balance family and career. However, men, not women, seem to benefit from having the extra time.
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Women’s football was introduced in the Olympics a staggering 96 years after the men’s event – and some sports still struggle with gender inequalities.
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It’s easy to get excited about smart city technology – but we need to think through the human consequences.
A woman in Burkina Faso collects firewood. Developing nations – and particularly women in these nations – are more vulnerable to climate change, and have less ability to adapt.
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Climate justice is becoming an increasingly important part of climate action.
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Women need to plan for a future where their career and personal finances will be significantly affected by caring for older relatives.
Women scientists are far more common today than they were in the early 1900s.
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Women have come a long way in science, but plenty of work remains. After all, gender bias in science doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Same journey. Different rewards.
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Publishing the data on the differences between salaries for men and women will only be half the battle.
Subsistence fisherwomen in Vietnam, working on a beach owned by a luxury hotel.
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Oxfam’s report shows that as the gap between rich and poor grows, other inequalities are also on the rise.
Star Wars actor Daisy Ridley leaves a couple of stormtroopers on the sidelines.
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Rey, Leia and Captain Phasma prove this film is light years ahead of the gender equality curve.
One step forward, two steps back.
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Despite more women joining the workforce, women are retiring with significantly less super than men, and single women do even worse.
Not a good time to be a boy.
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White boys from poorer backgrounds repeatedly come up worst when it comes to attainment.
Sometimes operating in the dark does more harm than good.
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It’s not just the gender pay gap that stands to benefit from ending salary secrecy.
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Suffragette tells a story that is both of its time, and timeless - an historical struggle whose lessons, sadly, still need to be learned.
When pay rates are individually negotiated, women tend to do less well.
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With the gender pay gap refusing to go away, it’s time more people were encouraged to discuss their salary openly.
Women in many developing countries find it difficult to open a bank account.
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If women in developing countries are to enjoy the benefits of access to banking, it’s time for a rethink on how they are assessed for risk.
My pay’s bigger than your pay.
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Requiring companies to publish pay rates marks a tougher approach from the government - but it’s still not enough.
Some who made it.
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While How to Be Both may be set in the Renaissance and the 1960s, its truths about inequality are just as relevant today.
ITV’s Julie Etchingham on election night.
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You might think you’re unbiased - but the general election should make you think again.
The stereotype of male as leader goes part of the way to explaining why so few women are in leadership roles.
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The way opportunity is structured is the very thing stopping more women entering leadership roles in the workforce.
Nicola Sturgeon unveiling SNP women’s strategy on April 25.
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The main parties are still a long way from getting full marks when it comes to tackling women’s financial disadvantages.