International Women’s Day: Why is Mark Carney rejecting gender equity efforts?

Repositioning Canada in the global hierarchy does not mean leaving 50 per cent of the population behind. Now, more than ever ...
Forbes

Fighting for Gender Equality: How Far We’ve Come and How Far We Have Left to Go

International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women all around the world and inspire future generations of women and girls to ...
Forbes

How Do We Advance Equality In This New Era? These Leaders Show Us A Path Forward

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Schnall is a journalist who amplifies women’s leadership. Top row, from left: Fatima Goss Graves, Ai-jen Poo, Stacey ...
The Lancet

When the rules are rewritten, strengthen the coalition for gender justice

In April, 2025, we contributed, with many international colleagues, to the report of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health, “Achieving gender justice for global health equity”1—the result ...
Los Angeles Times

Legal equality for women could take 300 years as backlash rises against women’s rights, U.N. chief says

UNITED NATIONS — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, ...
consilium.europa

Council calls for targeted efforts to advance gender equality in the AI-driven digital age

The Council is calling for targeted efforts to advance gender equality in the digital age, with a focus on the risks and opportunities presented by AI. In today’s conclusions, the Council proposes ...
consilium.europa

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 ...
Centre for European Policy Studies

The race for simplification shouldn’t sideline gender equality from FP10

In July 2025, the European Commission presented its  proposal  for the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, FP10. Once again, gender equality i ...
ONE

9 facts you need to know about gender equality

When women and girls have the tools and opportunities they need to succeed, it’s a win for everyone, everywhere. Despite the world continuing to make progress towards gender equality, that progress is ...

U.N. Panel Member Urges Japan to Create Gender Equality Bodies

Hiroko Akizuki, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, called on Japan to create dedicated parliamentary and government bodies to confront its entrenched ...

Korea exhibits 2nd-largest gender divide over perceived progress in equality: survey

A new global survey released Thursday found that Korea exhibits the world’s second-widest gap between men and women in their perception of ...