While the specific situation may be different depending on where people live or their social background (like their class, race, ability, sexuality, age, or location), women, girls, and gender ...

"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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Shaping the Future of Work Through Leadership, Culture, and Inclusion. Women in leadership are often encouraged to "Lean In," a ...

All social inequalities, by definition, involve one group that has more and another that has less. Do people prefer describing inequalities in terms of advantage or disadvantage? Using multiple ...

Kristen Harknett ([email protected]), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Daniel Schneider, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Paid sick leave helps workers ...

South Korea’s 2025 presidential election exposes the country’s deep gender gap in political representation. This gap is not due to complacency or cultural resignation. Korean women have long fought ...

Judi (Zhuyu) Li ’23 graduated with an economics and sociology major, with minors in environmental studies and sustainability, and was a 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for ...

It’s easy to see gender inequality as perpetuated by a few toxically masculine men, but gender bias is embedded in our social systems in many subtle ways too. One system that scientists have been ...

The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our times. It threatens to reverse progress on human rights and sustainable development and worsens gender inequality posing specific risks to ...