Despite over seven decades of law-making and landmark judgments, there remains a gulf, between the constitutional promise of ...

One in three institutions built to advance gender equality stripped of power in just two years, new UN report reveals. The UN warns that a deliberate political retr ...

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 ...

According to the nonprofit organization Freedom House, nearly 40% of people live in countries where democracy is eroding — places where executive power is consolidating, voter influence is diminishing ...

Allegations have emerged that gender discrimination issues were severe within a non-public organization inside the political ...

"Women are the problem"—this unspoken narrative has been circulating in the world of work for decades. Countless initiatives and programs are designed to make women "fit" for a career. But what if the ...

In the last 50 years, women have been seeking gender equality. We have been moving into the public sphere reserved for men since the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s, continually pushing for ...

Gender equality is either stalling or sliding in nearly 40% of the world’s countries, a new report has found — and almost 860 million women and girls are living in places ranked as “very poor” when it ...

Japan’s decision to end its contribution to the U.N.’s top gender equality body could hardly come at a worse time, both diplomatically and symbolically. Japan’s decision to exclude CEDAW from the list ...

Previous research has asserted that women and men in gender-equal countries differ more in their preferences than women and men in less equal countries, for example, by making more traditional ...

The Women’s March in 2017 was one of the largest single-day protests in U.S. history: more than half a million people rallied in Washington, DC. But the protest wasn’t just an American event. Over ...

Gender equality is linked to better climate outcomes. UN climate talks are sustaining a focus on gender while the G7 and G20 ...