Both women and men are likely to live longer when a country makes strides towards gender equality, according to a new global study that authors believe to be the first of its kind. "This ...

Languages: English. 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 ...

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 ...

Gender equality for all people is a matter of fairness and justice. Gender equality is a principle of international law recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is also essential ...

Over the past few years, major multilateral fora, including those focused on nuclear issues, have seen unnecessarily protracted negotiations over the inclusion of gender-equality language in documents ...

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 ...

Exploring the history of gender equity at the Olympics and where things stand today When Paris last hosted the Olympic Games in 1924, just over 4 percent of the competitors were women. A century ...

The report released Thursday by the U.N. agency focused on women’s rights and gender equality found that nearly one-quarter of governments worldwide reported a backlash to women’s rights last ...

In the last 50 years, women have been seeking gender equality. We have been moving into the public sphere reserved for men since the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s, continually pushing ...

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 ...