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Now the leading organisation of British film directors has called for decisive action, after a study revealed the shocking extent of gender inequality within the UK industry. Directors UK are ...

The original report can be downloaded here: 'Confronting Gender Inequality'. The Commission was designed to draw on LSE research and external experts to provide theoretical and empirical knowledge to inform public and policy debates in the UK concerned ...

Crucially, she also explores the darker legacy of gender inequality in ancient Greece, whose influential ideas on the inferiority of women have cast a long shadow over women's lives across the ...

The damning research – published by Health Equity North – has laid bare the unequal challenges faced by women living in the North of England. It exposes the growing regional inequalities over the last decade and the impact this has on women’s quality ...

Women have been talking about the health inequality they face for years ... replacement therapy amidst ongoing shortages across the UK. Over 100,000 responses to the government’s inquiry ...

Research has found that it explains much of the remaining gender inequality in modern societies ... citing the experiences of many working families in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in 2020 and 2021. While many parents had to ...

In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, the UK’s highest court ruled the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex”. This means transgender women with a gender ... risk of abuse, inequality and harm”.

There are more than three times as many local election candidates named David as there are Sarahs, shock new figures laying bare the level of gender inequality show. A breakdown of those standing ...

Gender inequality has been allowed to flourish for generations. In order to counter this disturbing trend, governments must invest in the education of women and girls. While not enough by itself ...

CNN hopes the site will raise awareness of gender inequality and spark debate in countries where ... Another on child marriages in Yemen was recently quoted in UK parliament.

By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality should disproportionately benefit industries with typically higher female share in their employment relative to other industries. Specifically ...

The economic inequality in the UK is high relative to many comparable advanced economies ... and there remains important work to be done on the role of gender, the labour market and understanding the role of other mechanisms.

Inequalities in pay and opportunities in the UK are becoming so extreme they are threatening democracy, an Institute for Fiscal Studies study has said. The think tank warns of runaway incomes for ...

Development aid helps to fight gender inequality. Here are 5 research-backed steps to take The benefits of empowering women extend far beyond the immediate recipients of gender-related aid ...

Factors such as age, education, occupation, ethnicity and gender all contribute directly and indirectly ... The authors say exploring the presence of socioeconomic inequalities in LCTs in the UK has important policy implications for the low-carbon ...