Both men and women are, on average, more dissatisfied with their relationship when she is the primary breadwinner.
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Female labour participation in Indonesia has stalled at 50% for the last three decades. This is a bit of a mystery because Indonesia’s economy has grown dramatically over the same period.
There is no shortage of projects to boost the number of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. But what we need is more hard data on whether and how these schemes are actually working.
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Women need to be included in all matters of health.
Men still dominate the science media landscape, among both quoted sources and the writers themselves. Confronting this problem is not a job just for women, or just for the media - it’s for everyone.
Quotas intended to increase diversity among corporate board members are likely to lead to token appointments and fail to bring about real change.
Achieving justice in response to sexual violence is complex, and we should treat the Weinstein conviction with some caution.
Women-focused capital financing is supposedly aimed at ending the corporate gender gap. But many equity investors still view women entrepreneurs as being deficient and are practising pinkwashing.
Support for European soccer clubs is defining relationships between spouses.
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.
A summer exhibition of man-made craft is a rare thing - but do men really need a leg up when it comes to artistic recognition?
On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique. Women in a mechanical engineering class were targeted, and 30 years later the ratio of women to men in engineering hasn’t improved much.
Paid family leave and pay equity came up, but on the whole, the remaining Democratic candidates tend to give ‘women’s issues’ short shrift.
The South African child support grant is progressive in its gender-neutrality, yet men make up only 2% of those who collect it.
“Because it’s 2015” became a rallying cry for gender parity when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named his first cabinet that year but equality is still not the norm in the world.
For every 100 men, up to 25 have raped or pressured a woman into sex.
In August, Screen Australia announced they had surpassed targets in their Gender Matters initative. But their September 2019 production funding round has no women directors or writers.
The region has made progress but efforts must continue to end a harmful practice rooted in poverty and tradition.
Kurdish women have fought on the front lines of military battles since the 19th century. A scholar explains the origins of Kurdistan’s relative gender equality in a mostly conservative Muslim region.
The ruling suggests there is an enduring disregard for one of the most vulnerable groups in today’s society: older women.
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