The legal profession has been historically a male-dominated industry with limited accessibility for women. Nowadays, women ...

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.

It shows that at the current rate of progress, the achievement of all gender equality and women’s empowerment targets may take decades – even centuries – to materialize. “I cannot accept a ...

At this rate, the United Nations warns, it may take close to 300 years to achieve full gender equality on a global level. And if regular rankings may show strong disparities between countries and ...

Through this collaboration, we aim to address some of the obstacles still obstructing the path to gender equality, but also to shed light on the women, men, NGOs, citizen movements, and policies ...

A UB faculty member and a PhD candidate led a panel discussion last month as part of the 69th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69).

More states and cities hope laws requiring employers to share pay minimums and maximums on job postings will shrink… The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic goes ‘Abroad’ exploring gender equality To ...

Gender Mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality. Mainstreaming is not an end in itself but a strategy, an approach, a means to achieve the goal of gender equality.

In 1992, as the Supreme Court affirmed a right to abortion, the majority famously held that “the ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been ...

The education category of the Best States for Gender Equality analysis looks at gender disparities in two metrics: four-year graduation rates between men and women, and eighth grade achievement ...