Education is often considered the great equaliser, providing individuals with the tools and knowledge necessary to succeed in life. However, when it comes to gender inequality, education can also ...

In recent decades, Canadian universities have made definite progress ensuring gender equality in access to faculty positions.

In the past decade, the UN has bemoaned the chronically low level of participation by Afghan women and girls in ...

I s there a crisis in male college-going? Or, as Carine M. Feyten argues in a recent Chronicle opinion, is it the case that “The Boys Are Doing Just Fine”? Feyten, chancellor and president of ...

sexual harassment and deeply ingrained gender roles are just a few of the forces that contribute to this phenomenon. However, these inequalities are not isolated to the workforce — they are deeply ...

Higher education is based on a merit system ... the fact of these inequalities on the basis of gender and economic opportunities. The way that councils function, the number of women in local ...

Competitive workplaces worsen gender inequality in 2 ways Women are less ... Even when comparing men and women of the same education level, a recent U.S. Census study shows that the pay gap ...

Entrenched social, economic and gender inequalities prevent girls from accessing education, limit their decision-making power, and expose them to gender-based violence. Shani’s story graphically ...

“Generally, access to education and participation in the ... sub-Saharan Africa as the worst-performing region in the Gender Inequality Index – a composite measure reflecting the disparity ...

To help facilitate these conversations, I created two documents on the current state of gender inequality and the state of women ... the disparity between men and women’s opportunities in education, ...