According to INSEE, 68% of the wage gap between men and women is due to the fact that they do not occupy the same positions, which is directly related to the field they choose.
Does a journalist’s gender matter if their job is to speak truth to power? It shouldn’t but until recently did. A new book, Through Her Eyes, tells the stories of our women foreign correspondents.
QAnon members participate in a protest against the counting of electoral votes in Washington, DC, which affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Employers can foster equity in the workplace by relaxing current dress codes or providing employees with individual thermostat control and other means to improve their comfort.
Demonstrators gather in support of women’s rights and equal justice in Tunis in June 2022.
Photo by Yassine Mahjoub/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The Chrisland Schools incident shows how the media allows males to get away with actions that females cannot.
Women wait for food distribution to commence at the Government Girls Secondary School IDP camp in Monguno, Nigeria.
gettyimages/Jane Hahn for the Washington Post
Sexual violence against women and girls in Nigeria’s northeastern region persists because of the Nigerian government’s lax response to cases of sexual offences.
Crossbench MPs Kate Chaney, Zoe Daniels, Monique Ryan, Allegra Spender and Zali Steggall in the new parliament
AAP Image/Lukas Coch
Two new books examine the life and legacy of an inspiring poet whose work resisted patriarchal constraints.
A new U.S. quarter shows Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools.
U.S. Mint
Study after study has shown that men tend to be more willing to put themselves in harm’s way to help others. Why some men rise to the occasion – and others don’t – has been a bit trickier to pin down.
Ethiopian women at a garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in the country’s southern region.
Eyerusalem Jiregna/AFP via Getty Images
In urbanising communities in sub-Saharan Africa, women cooking primarily with charcoal and wood had approximately 50% higher odds of likely depression than those cooking with gas.