In most wealthy nations, women have been steadily closing the gap with men on several fronts. In the United States, women now earn the majority of the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Women ...

Women’s rights NGO Equality Now reported on Friday that despite some progress towards legal equality, there has been an “alarming rollback” of fundamental human rights relating to “women’s rights, ...

Gender equality at work has barely improved over the past ten years, with paid work opportunities held back by women doing the bulk of unpaid work in the home, new research shows. Stubborn gaps in pay ...

The UN warns that a deliberate political retreat from gender equality is reversing decades of progress, and calls for equal power for women everywhere New York, 17 September 2026 – The Gender Snapshot ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Leaders of the fight for women's equality say there is no going back on the revolution that began 30 years ago, though the challenges ahead are immense. The comments came at a U.N.

By 2025, 85% of all the EU’s new external actions – across all sectors – will contribute to gender equality and women's empowerment. This is now being finalised with our partner countries based on ...

These are arguably the most feminist and female-friendly countries on earth, where gender equality is at its highest and women can rest assured their rights and protections are top priority.

From missing school sanitation in South Asia to systemic bias, the Gender Snapshot 2026 highlights a stolen future for generations of women.

What Louis Theroux’s “Inside the Manosphere” reveals about online misogyny, how it spreads, and why it has real-world ...

For the past two decades, investing in girls’ schooling has been hailed as a cornerstone of promoting gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2016 and 2018 the World Bank Group invested US$3.2 ...

Together with human rights, freedom and democracy, equality represents one of the core values that make the European Union what it is. It enriches our societies and strengthens their resilience.