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Japan's finance sector is shaking up workplace gender equality, as top firms are axing clerical roles mainly held by women, ...
The Liberal Party’s idea of equality means treating everyone the same, rather than addressing structures loaded against women. It’s doing the party enormous damage.
Japan’s biggest financial firms are abolishing decades-old practices that kept women off the corporate ladder.
Energy powers every aspect of our lives, and by 2050, up to 90 per cent of the world’s electricity could come from renewable sources. This shift could dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ...
The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the ...
Up to 67.6 percent of high school students do not know what “sexual consent” means or have heard the term but cannot explain ...
Investors like Boston Common, a U.S.-based ESG-focused investment firm, are taking note. Japanese firms including Mitsubishi ...
Japanese firms have long lagged behind their Western peers on gender equality, but the U.S. crackdown on diversity may give ...
Despite these promising advances driven by proactive government and institutional initiatives, true gender equality remains an unfulfilled promise. Without a shared commitment from both men and ...
Tuvalu's Prime Minister Feleti Teo says discriminatory laws and cultural norms continue to be obstacles to full gender equality in his island nation. With a population of just over 10,000, the country ...
There are more than three times as many local election candidates named David as there are Sarahs, shock new figures laying bare the level of gender ... a brick wall”. “Equality in politics ...
Shimadzu Corporation named as a Nadeshiko Brand for advancing gender equality in the workplace. Shimadzu Corporation has been selected as a Nadeshiko Brand by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and ...