One study found that while women’s median net wealth is higher overall than it was two decades ago, a large gender gap remains. In Europe, women’s median net wealth is 62 percent that of men. 4. Women continue to work a double shift at home While women face inequality in the world...
Despite many women and men being engaged in the fight against gender inequality and violence for a long time, dismantling harmful preconceptions can take generations. Even if statistical data shows that the number of female victims of homicide and the gender pay gap are declining, women in Italy...
Understanding the determinants of gender gaps is essential for any country who wants to put forward effective ways to realize equality between men and women and promote a balanced pattern of economic growth. However there is no unique determinant of gender gaps, and ‘gender gap’ itself is a m...
Change is Good, and Gen Z is ready for It:Gen Z is very confident that social progress will be made regarding the LGBTQ community (85%), gender inequality (79%), and economic equality (68%). Understanding Gen Z’s values and beliefs is critical for brands that want to connect with th...
There are quite a few different statistics for how many LGBTQ+ people there are in the US due to different survey methods and ways of asking people about their sexual and gender identities. Time also plays a big role – the figures have been changing fast! (More on this later). ...
Born Sarah Breedlove, Madam CJ Walker was an African American entrepreneur in the early 1900s. During an era of Jim Crow laws and gross racial and gender inequality, Walker became the first female self-made millionaire in the United States. Her business, the Madame CJ Walker Manufacturin...
There are many factors that contribute to student success, and while we could not control for all of them we did our best to consider the best explanations,” including “city size, racial demographics, spending, poverty or income inequality.”[26] The results are “stable no matter how ...
The largest gains were seen among Black and Hispanic students, who saw a 12 percentage point increase over this time period compared to 8 percentage points for White students. When broken down by gender, men still hold a slight advantage over women when it comes to obtaining tertiary qualificati...
cities for work, prostitution became commonplace in the crowded shantytowns where they lived, experts say. Demand also has been driven by a gender imbalance, with the strict one-child policy resulting in higher numbers of men than women. In addition, gender inequality, which limits education and...
EXTRACT: "Last year, a social-media trend featured women asking men how often they thought about the Roman Empire. The answer, it seemed, was “very”: many men claimed that the ancient empire crossed their minds weekly or even daily. That did not surprise Mike Duncan, the host of the ...