More: Gender Equality
World Bank Group Launches Initiatives Supporting Women Entrepreneurs
The World
Bank Group announced two new initiatives to improve access to start-up
financing and e-commerce markets for women entrepreneurs, at the Women
Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi)...
Designing Gender-Inclusive Cities that Work for All
Modern cities are designed BY MEN and FOR MEN, thereby limiting women’s
access to economic and social development, according a new World Bank publication
launched today...
Women and girls in science – from aspiration to reality
Marking 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen praised the...
Ambitious measures needed to ensure equal pay for women
EU MEPs urge the Commission to present an ambitious Gender Equality
Strategy, including measures to reduce the gender pay gap.
In the resolution adopted on Thursday...
Companies Commit to Hardwire Gender Parity into the Future of Work
The World Economic Forum today announces the public launch of the Hardwiring Gender Parity into the
Future of Work initiative. It aims at accelerating the
pathways...
Give me religion that does not polarise society
A few years ago in Aceh, a poster was put
up by the Islamic Sharia Department in Banda Aceh of the communications and
information agency office,...
40 Economies Make 62 Legal Reforms to Advance Women’s Economic Participation
The regulatory environment for women’s economic participation has improved
over the past two years, with 40 economies enacting 62 reforms that will help
women – half...
Understanding the gender pay gap: Definition and causes
Although the equal pay for
equal work principle was already introduced in the Treaty of
Rome in 1957, the so-called gender pay gap stubbornly persists with...
Women in Business “must be knowledgeable and trust their knowledge”
Women who set up their own businesses will succeed if they are
knowledgeable about their field and “trust their knowledge”; that’s according
to the owner of...
More than a Lifetime Away: World Faces 100-Year Wait for Gender Parity
The time it will take to close the gender gap narrowed
to 99.5 years in 2019. While an improvement on 2018 – when the gap...