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11 Sep 19
Women holding a tertiary degree earn a quarter less than their male counterparts across the world’s leading economies, new OECD analysis has shown.
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15 Apr 19
Stark inequality between rich and poor in Russia has been highlighted in an annual wealth report.
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7 Jul 16
The UK has today announced £100m worth of funding toward ensuring 175,000 of the world’s poorest, most marginalised girls receive an education.
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17 May 16
The UK’s Department for International Development must step up its work to tackle violence against women and girls to match the “huge” scale of the problem, the country’s Independent Commission for...
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5 Apr 16
Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Programme, has announced she will run to succeed Ban Ki-Moon as the next UN secretary general.
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9 Mar 16
Efforts to build resilience to infectious diseases like Ebola are futile unless they also address systematic gender inequality, the African Development Bank has said.
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7 Mar 16
Investment focused on tackling gender inequality can form an essential part of the fight to end extreme poverty, according to the ONE campaign.
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4 Mar 16
Women in Ireland shoulder one of the most unequal burdens in the world when it comes to childcare, according to the UK’s Overseas Development Institute.
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21 Jan 16
Canada has the highest proportion of women among its senior central government officials of all the G20 countries, followed by Australia, South Africa, the UK and Brazil, according to research from...
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9 Dec 15
Men still dominate central banks and finance ministries throughout Europe, with only one in 25 top jobs held by women, the European Institute for Gender Equality has found.
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4 Dec 15
More people are in need of humanitarian assistance than at any time since the Second World War, with women and girls disproportionately vulnerable, according to the United Nations Population Fund (...