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    Statues for equality: Australians unveil NY sculptures of 10 women

    01 Sep 2019

    Ten statues of famous women were installed in New York this week as the first part of an international project by Australian artists to highlight gender imbalance in monuments.

    Factors at play in the US soccer-pay difference

    12 Jul 2019

    The US women’s national soccer team just won the World Cup championship while the US men’s soccer team failed to even qualify for the men’s World Cup last year. And yet, the women players make only about 20% as much as the men players. That seems unfair, so what gives? Certainly when two people perform

    I’ve been bullied working at Westminster

    14 Jul 2019

    Thursday saw the publication of the latest of three separate QC-led inquiries into Westminster’s bullying and harassment problem. The details included in Gemma White’s report — of unwanted sexual advances and mental breakdowns precipitated by relentless criticism and unreasonable demands — still have

    A marked shift in sex-trafficking defendants

    19 Jul 2019

    The new faces of sex trafficking are increasingly white, affluent and well-connected. In an indictment unveiled July 8 in the Southern District of New York, Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy hedge fund manager, was charged with sex trafficking for recruiting numerous minors for paid sex acts. In 2018, a federal judge

    Poor funding may hurt UK’s domestic abuse bill

    17 Jul 2019

    Charlotte Huggins, 33, stabbed. Leanne Unsworth, 40, head injuries. Christy Walshe, 40, shot. Alison Hunt, 42, stabbed. Rosie Derbyshire, 27, head injuries. Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, strangled. Allison Marimon-Herrera, 15, strangled. Rachel Evans, 46, beaten. Paula Meadows, 83, found dead. These are the names of just a handful of the women

    Lost cause

    10 Jul 2019

    There is never equality in the world anyway. Most of the inequalities are man-made. While gender is a naturally occurring inequality, humans have made the gap wider though biases and generally perceived notions of patriarchy (‘Income inequality a global challenge,’ July 6, Gulf Today). So when the talk is about income inequality, it is nothing

    Deepening inequalities a cause for concern

    13 Jul 2019

    There are vast inequalities across countries, and among the poorer segments of societies, as per the 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the subject needs to be addressed earnestly. In the 101 countries studied

    UN Women urges world to press gender equality post-pandemic

    23 Mar 2021

    “So whatever you touch, women are in a bad space, as a result of the pandemic” and the underlying discrimination “that has always been there,” she said. “This therefore suggests that building back better is about gender equality, just as it’s about green economies and any equitable sharing of resources.”

    Covid derails progress in gender equality

    08 Mar 2021

    The global COVID-19 pandemic is more than a year old, and our cities remain on the front line of the emergency response, working to save lives and protect livelihoods across the world. But beneath the numbers reported in each news cycle — the cases

    Gender equality

    24 Mar 2021

    It’s the same old issue - gender equality. The issue never dies not because there is no solution. It’s because that humans keep it going. Why should anyone fight for gender equality? Instead if we celebrate gender differences, the issue of equality

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