Researchers used data from more than 150 countries to connect gender equality and life expectancy. They hope their findings can help policymakers set priorities in public health and other areas.

A survey from March 2025 shows a 60% increase in concern about the lack of progress on gender equality. UN Women data from ...

“Gender equality is a foundation for achieving all SDGs and it should be at the heart of building back better,” said Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy ...

Gender equality is essential for development. It can unlock economic productivity, reduce poverty, deepen social cohesion, and enhance wellbeing and prosperity. Women’s participation and leadership ...

Project 2025 could have a significant impact on women's rights and gender equality during a hypothetical second Donald Trump term. The 900-page-long document, produced by conservative think-tank ...

Episode 7: This episode talks about gender equality and AI. The animation series were created based on the UNESCO publication Steering AI and Advanced ICTs for Knowledge Societies – a Rights, Openness ...

Lack of gender equality in science also limits scientific progress and hamstrings a country’s development and its efforts to build peaceful societies. Yet, today, only one in three scientific ...

The gender-equality paradox, which argues that gender differences are more pronounced in more egalitarian countries and vice versa, has recently been extensively covered in the media. However, a new ...

While significant progress has been made in gender equality over the past 50 years with respect to access to professorial positions, women’s representation as professors remains uneven across ...

In his first major move as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney eliminated roughly a third of all cabinet positions, including the crucially important Minister of Women and Gender Equality.

Although inequalities persist, over recent decades, substantial progress has been made towards achieving gender equality. In the EU this progress is due to legislation, the integration of gender ...