Tag: Gender equality
Four home traps that contribute to the gender pay gap
Emma Willamson, Monash University
Australia’s gender pay gap is diminishing, says a new report, but some contributors to it seem harder to overcome than others....
What the racial equality movement can learn from the global fight...
Mustafa Ozbilgin, Brunel University London
Full equality might remain a distant goal, but the gender equality movement has made considerable progress internationally. The same cannot...
Women’s colleges play unique role in quest for equality
Kimberly Wright Cassidy, Bryn Mawr; Jacquelyn Litt, Rutgers University, and ReBecca Roloff, St Catherine University
Editor’s note: Thanks, some say, in no small part to...
The US is stingier with child care and maternity leave than...
Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In most American families led by couples, both parents are in the workforce. At the same time, nearly 1...
Very few women oversee US companies. Here’s how to change that
Yannick Thams, Suffolk University; Bari Bendell, Suffolk University, and Siri Terjesen, American University
Women’s participation in the labor force has soared over the past 50...
Who are the Baha’is and why are they so persecuted?
Zackery M. Heern, Idaho State University
The Baha'is are among the most persecuted religious minorities in the world.
In Iran, where the religion was founded, universities...
Dads are more involved in parenting, yes, but moms still put...
Dads are more involved in parenting, yes, but moms still put in more work
Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, The Ohio State University
On Jan. 21, in a collective...
126,000 reasons why the Emma Watson hoax isn’t all bad news
By Evita March, Federation University Australia
In less than a week since actor Emma Watson’s stirring United Nations speech on gender inequality, two big things...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
