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  • SDIS21: Society & the Future of Work – What are the challenges in making society and work more sustainable?

    Thursday 16th of September 2021

    In the decade leading up to 2020, we saw significant, albeit slow, progress towards making education and work more equitable and inclusive.

  • 4 ways to address the gender finance gap and empower women

    Wednesday 15th of September 2021

    “Nothing bad happens when women have more money” states Sallie Krawcheck, a former Wall Street executive and the CEO and founder of Ellevest, a female focussed investment platform. Sallie is one of a growing group of influential and vocal women who are espousing the idea of financial feminism, which stands for financial inclusion and equality for women, not only relating to their earnings, but also to building and keeping wealth.

  • This is the main barrier stopping female merchants from using digital payments

    Tuesday 14th of September 2021

    Building trust in digital payments is crucial to unlocking the potential of women merchants in India.

  • Lessons from Tanzania: How soccer and sex education can change girls’ lives

    Friday 10th of September 2021

    Being an adolescent anywhere is challenging. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa, where adolescents have some of the world’s highest rates of HIV infection, unintended teenage pregnancy, and intimate partner violence.

  • How improving water security is tackling the gender gap in Mexico City

    Wednesday 1st of September 2021

    Water for human consumption is increasingly inaccessible, due to poor management, degradation of water sources, the effects of climate change and more.

  • ‘They’re not able to govern without 50% of the population.’ Former mayor speaks out for women in Afghanistan

    Friday 27th of August 2021

    Zarifa Ghafari was one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors but has fled the country as a result of the Taliban’s advances.

  • All-women Islamic choir smashes gender taboos in Egypt

    Thursday 26th of August 2021

    The words of the Islamic hymns being rehearsed in a small studio just outside Cairo are well known among Egyptian Muslims, but they have never sounded so different. Here, they are being sung by women.

  • Gender gap: This is how we can build an equal economic recovery

    Wednesday 25th of August 2021

    Progress on reaching gender parity has stalled and even gone backwards in the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • How to avoid gender bias in job postings

    Sunday 22nd of August 2021

    Women remain underrepresented in a number of high-profile fields like finance and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

  • Agenda Dialogues: Mind the Gender Gap – Delivering an Equal Economic Recovery

    Wednesday 18th of August 2021

    With women’s jobs close to twice as likely to be cut during this recession as those held by men, the pandemic has set the world back 36 years in its quest to achieve global gender parity.

  • What risk and overconfidence can tell us about the gender pay gap 

    Sunday 15th of August 2021

    Gendered differences in men’s and women’s behavioral traits — namely, risk preferences and overconfidence — generate differences in job search behavior and may explain as much as 25 percent of the difference between men’s and women’s earnings in their first jobs, according to survey data on job search behavior analyzed by Patricia Cortés, Jessica Pan, Laura Pilossoph, and Basit Zafar in Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors (NBER Working Paper 28820).

  • How to nurture inclusivity and create a more diverse workforce

    Friday 13th of August 2021

    While the market seemingly recovers from the effects of the pandemic, the recession’s effects on Black, Brown and other underrepresented communities have been devastating, with experts calling the economic comeback “the most unequal in modern US history.”

  • 5 ways to get more women working in AI

    Thursday 12th of August 2021

    Artificial intelligence (AI) has become embedded in everyday life around the world, touching how we work, play, purchase and communicate. The power of AI lies in its potential to improve lives, but this potential can only be realized if AI represents the entire population. Increasing diversity in AI development is crucial to delivering equitable outcomes.

  • World Bank: This is how COVID-19 has affected women’s employment

    Tuesday 10th of August 2021

    At the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts were quick to warn us about the disproportionate impact the crisis would have on socially excluded groups, such as women. The urgent need to respond to the health crisis was undeniable, but at the same time, understanding the differentiated effects of the pandemic on excluded groups would be key to enable the design of inclusive and resilient recovery efforts . Yet, social distancing measures created new challenges for those seeking to gather evidence on such impacts. We needed innovative approaches to collect data and we needed them fast.

  • People who speak more are more likely to be considered leaders

    Monday 9th of August 2021

    If you want to be a leader, start talking. It doesn’t even particularly matter what you say, according to a study testing the appropriately-named “babble hypothesis”.

  • How can Canada encourage more female workers to join the construction trade?

    Thursday 5th of August 2021

    A shortage of skilled workers is intensifying in Canada, potentially threatening the pace of the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and that has policymakers looking at a largely untapped market for new construction workers: Women.

  • This is how the US female workforce has been affected by COVID-19

    Friday 30th of July 2021

    When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Farida Mercedes, an HR executive at a global cosmetic company, was on the cusp of a promotion. She had worked 17 years with the company. Her six- and seven-year-old sons needed a full-time parent to help them navigate the newfound challenges of online learning. Mercedes and her husband, a corrections officer, never discussed who would leave their job to help the kids during their school day. “I took that burden on myself, and he was very supportive,” she said. “But it just was no question.”

  • CEO diversity: does it explain CEO-to-employee pay ratio?

    Friday 30th of July 2021

    Kamala Harris’ election as US Vice-President has drawn attention to the fact that female and minority leaders are underrepresented in all walks of life. This is especially evident in the corner office of US companies. Despite their unique leadership qualities, data from 2017-2018 for S&P 1500 firms shows that women hold only 5%, and minority representatives only 7% of CEO positions. Recently, the TIAA named Thasunda Brown Duckett as its CEO, only the second-ever Black female chief executive in the Fortune 500.

  • Do you need to wear a mask if you’re fully vaccinated? An expert explains

    Thursday 29th of July 2021

    There is clear and mounting evidence that – though rare – breakthrough COVID-19 infections can occur, even in the fully vaccinated. This is particularly true with emerging variants of concern.

  • This is how female athletes are taking a stand against sexist clothing rules

    Monday 26th of July 2021

    Women’s dress codes in sport are determined by “traditions” that are both outdated and gendered. Their outfits have long tried to reconcile notions of “femininity” with those of “athleticism”, but this process has turned women into objects to be admired rather than being valued for their sporting skills.

  • What is the state of gender equality at the Tokyo Olympics?

    Thursday 22nd of July 2021

    In March, the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Organizing Committee announced that the Tokyo Games would be the “first gender-balanced Olympic Games in history.”

  • Supported by UN Women, police forces are becoming more responsive to survivors of violence

    Wednesday 21st of July 2021

    In the past 18 months, by trapping women with their abusers, COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns have worsened the already-widespread violence against women while preventing many of them from getting help. But even those who do manage to contact the police come up against another long-standing challenge: a culture and system that treats the survivor as a big part of the problem. “The biggest challenge we face is that women do not report cases of violence because of victim-blaming attitudes by police officers,” says Police Superintendent Maria Mahmood, Director at the National Police Academy in Pakistan. “When I started working as a police officer, I was shocked to see the deep-rooted bias of a patriarchal police force. The criminal justice system is discriminatory, and also stigmatizes victims of violence and does not provide efficient support for them.” While there are many other causes besides unsympathetic officers, worldwide only 1 out of 10 female survivors seek help from the police, according to a 2015 United Nations report. UN Women has been trying to encourage police reforms in its work on Essential Services, and with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its work on police and justice responses to gender-based violence against women.

  • To solve big issues like climate change, we need to reframe our problems

    Monday 19th of July 2021

    Imagine you own an office building and your tenants are complaining that the elevator is way too slow. What do you do?

  • Why venture capital should commit to gender balance

    Friday 16th of July 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on women’s economic opportunities, mental health, wellbeing, and livelihoods. Female workers were among the hardest hit by the crisis – with over 64 million jobs lost in 2020 – as were female entrepreneurs and job creators. Moreover, the persistent gender digital divide has led to greater inequality in accessing digital devices and online services such as education, healthcare, and credit from financial institutions.

  • What Bangladesh can teach and learn about closing the education gender gap

    Wednesday 14th of July 2021

    “The way I had to struggle, I hope other women do not struggle as much. I want to help women find jobs and advance themselves,” Jenatul Ferdous Min says, expressing not only ambitions for herself but for all Bangladeshi women.

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