Professor Kate Maclean from the Centre for International Development at Northumbria University joins Stephen Cole to explain why female political leaders – like New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern have come to the fore in this time of crisis.
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The World Economic Forum has been publishing an annual Gender Gap Report for the past 15 years.
It examines the divide between men and women across the globe in four major areas – economics, education, healthcare and politics.
And while the gaps are closing in some of those areas, in others –...
The COVID-19 pandemic has of course had an extraordinary effect on all our lives.
But for women, according to a new report, it’s had a particularly devastating impact. The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap report shows that COVID has pushed back gender parity by an entire generatio...
Equal pay has been one of the key battlegrounds in the fight to close the gender gap. The latest statistics suggest that this year on average women will still earn only 82 cents for every dollar earned by a man.
And the pandemic has only exacerbated the gender pay gap, as women are more likely ...
