A village council head from a village in Alwar district of Rajasthan in India attends a meeting organized by UN Women’s partner The Hunger Project, to develop her leadership skills. Women get together ...

New research out of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and UC San Francisco found that the gap between how long men live and how long women live has been widening for more than a decade.

Globally, only 28 per cent of professionals in STEM are women, and despite efforts to close the gap, systemic barriers, unconscious biases, and a lack of career guidance persist. This isn’t just about ...

SINGAPORE – By many measures of health, women in Singapore have it good. Thanks to a world-class healthcare system, they can expect to live to 85.2 years old at birth, one of the highest life ...

Despite years of gradual improvements, the gender pay gap remains a persistent problem for women everywhere.Credit: Dionne Gain This week began with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA ...

Women make up 56% of lawyers but hold only 34% of equity partner positions. I’ve come to look at International Women’s Day in two ways. It serves as a bleak reminder of the little progress we ...

Investopedia / Joules Garcia Many traditional gender roles have disappeared but one gender-based distinction remains: the wage gap. Women earned about 84 cents in 2023 for every dollar men earned ...

Data shows that countries with domestic violence laws have seen less cases of violence against women. Most of the world has reached parity in education. By bridging the gender gap in accessing and ...

Madhuri Dixit and Guneet Monga discussed pay disparity in Indian cinema at an event hosted by the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) on March 7 in Jaipur. Listen to Story Madhuri Dixit and ...

Global capability centres (GCCs) and technology consulting and services sectors lead the way in narrowing the gap for overall women representation, reveals an Aon survey on gender and pay equity, ...

“While challenges in closing the gender gap in broking remain, we believe our initiatives will empower more women to thrive in this field," said Dhiraj Relli, the company's managing director ...

This initiative also incorporates lessons on navigating workplace dynamics that may present challenges for women and girls in engineering and looks towards bridging the gender gap in Science, ...