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5 ESG experts break down the business case for gender equality in the workplace, and explain why companies could suffer for decades when it is ignored
Multiple pieces of research show that gender equality helps drive higher returns and improve corpor…
Jaqueline Ting Quesada
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Two male academics have proposed a new measure of gender inequality that suggests men are falling behind women in 91 countries
For each of the metrics, the researchers calculated the ratio between their values for women and me…
Andy Kiersz
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How retail's lack of gender diversity and representation in leadership roles is hurting profitability - in an industry where just 12% of CEOs are women
A May 2020 McKinsey report found that profit performance can be close to 50 percent higher when wom…
Bethany Biron
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Melinda Gates just promised to put $1 billion towards gender equality over the next 10 years, and she says she has 3 priorities she wants to focus on
Gates and her husband, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, have a net worth of $107 billion, Business Ins…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
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Which country can achieve gender equality by 2030 ? The answer is none, UN laments
So far, no country in the world has achieved gender equality, according to the United Nations. …
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Gender wage pay gap: Women graduate in India earns 24% less than her male counterpart
Gender equality is not a reality in India. While sincere attempts to make it so are in the ‘pipelin…
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275,000 more women left the labor force in January
While January's overall unemployment rate was 6.3%, the National Women's Law Center found 8.5% of B…
Juliana Kaplan
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Stephen Colbert wants women to know that his late-night show is for them
"Sure, the other hosts bring the eye candy. Jimmy Fallon has a boyish charm, and for the ladies who…
Matthew Speiser
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This powerful domestic abuse ad changed women's rights forever in Saudi Arabia
The ad was created by international ad-agency Ogilvy and promoted by the King Khalid Foundation, a …
Matthew Speiser
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Serena Williams credits her daughter and the USWNT for inspiring her renewed efforts to combat gender inequality in sports: 'They encourage me to want to continue to fight'
No place is that more evident than on the soccer pitch. Stars like Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, and …
Meredith Cash,Meredith Cash
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US labor secretary says he wants more women to be CEOs and board members so the gender pay gap can immediately close
Women CEOs and board members could focus on wage disparity and "close that gap immediately," Marty …
Kate Duffy
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Bill Gates says where you were born is the biggest predictor of your success - and it's a glaring sign of global inequality
According to Bill Gates, global inequality has been driven down in the last two decades, but there'…
Ivan De Luce
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Lake Bell wants to see 'action' from debate about Hollywood's gender inequality
"It will be interesting to see in the next few months, while I'm out trying to make 'What's the Poi…
Jason Guerrasio
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'Activity inequality' could be one of the biggest factors in obesity
The Stanford University study, published in "Nature," found that in countries with a wider activity…
Madeleine Sheehan Perkins,Mik…
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REPORT: 22% Of Game Developers Are Female
The gaming world within tech has had some more noticeable issues of gender inequality beyond just t…
Rebecca Borison
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Female Economists Are More Likely To Favor Big Government
The sample size in the study is small but the key point is that, all (well, most) else being equal,…
Shane Ferro
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These Are The Most Sexist States In The US
While the overall picture isn't pretty, the study did find a few places where women have an advanta…