Gender quotas are applied because there is marked gender inequality in elected bodies. With quotas, the aim is to guarantee the election of a number of women simultaneously, instead of the ...

Gender inequality examples that show it’s a man’s world. W omen’s rights have come a long way; there was a time when women couldn’t vote, own property or serve in the military. Imagine ...

The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back From the Brink—an annual published study by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress—was released on Saturday, and features an ...

Progress towards a more gender-equal world is happening, sure—there are active, open discussions about pay inequality and rape culture; there's a celebration (and reinvigoration) of the feminist ...

“We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality,” the piece reads. “It isn’t a reality yet…Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters.

We've got mountains of evidence to suggest that gender inequality in science is damaging to innovation and public health alike, ... In evaluating research papers, for example, ...

Jennifer Lawrence: Lenny Letter essay on gender pay inequality "I'm over trying to find the 'adorable' way to state my opinion." ...

Beyonce wrote the essay as part of a media initiative led by Maria Shriver. Beyonce Knowles-Carter has taken up the issue of gender inequality by writing an essay on it. The 32-year old singer ...

We hear about it all the time: Gender inequality rages, even as many of us try to fight it. The pay gap is real. It’s 2016, and women are still earning less than men — and they’re also ...

We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we ...