How Women Leaders Build Careers They Thrive In
By Christie Hunter Arscott and Lauren Noël
Early career women understand that building a career and life they thrive in is no small feat. Instead,...
Forget the Ideal Worker Myth. Unis Need to Become More Inclusive for All Women...
By Leisa Sargent and Eileen Baldry
Movements like #metoo and #blacklivesmatter have increased voice and visibility of gender and race disparities in society and, in particular, workplaces. That includes universities....
Smashing the ‘Concrete Ceiling’: Black Women Are Still Missing From Corporate Leadership
By Oludolapo Makinde
While white women may speak of breaking through the “glass ceiling,” for many Black women, it’s more like a “concrete ceiling.” Black...
Women’s Sexual Desire Often Goes Undiscussed – Yet It’s One of Their Most Common...
By Áine Aventin
Female sexual desire is frequently misunderstood. Despite desire (also known as libido or sex drive) being the most common sexual health concern for women,...
Workplace Integration and Gender Attitudes
By Gordon B. Dahl, Andreas Kotsadam and Dan-Olof Rooth
Women make up close to half of the labor force in most developed countries, yet occupational...
As COVID hit Kenya and South Africa, Race and Class Fears were Amplified on...
By Dr Job Mwaura and Dr. Ufuoma Akpojivi
It’s common in both Kenya and South Africa for there to be everyday conversations about inequalities in...
To Engage LGBTQ+ People In Data Collection, We Need To Look At Its Harmful...
By Kevin Guyan
In the 1950s, the UK government formed a committee to investigate fears of a homosexual “problem” in Britain. This was partly...
Perceived as Normal
By Jean Halley and Amy Eshleman
To be perceived as normal means to have power and privilege. Queer and feminist movements help us to see...
I Research How People Creatively Express ‘Queer Joy’ Online – Here Are Three Tips...
By Alice Elizabeth Wilson
I am part of a research group looking at queer joy and the ways it is expressed online. We’re trying to establish ways...
Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: Finding an Optimal Level?
By Won-Yong Oh, Loren Falkenberg, and Jim Dewald
There has been an increase in the number of women serving on boards. Today, everyone talks about...
Black Women Are at Greater Risk of Maternal Death in the UK – Here’s...
By Ian James Kidd
Black women are four times more likely to die while pregnant or just after childbirth than white women, according to the latest figures...
How the Fear of Racial Dialogue Divides Us
By Kupiri Ackerman-Barger
Conversations about race have become more explosive and polarised – meaning that it is necessary to begin constructive interracial dialogue. For many,...
Afghan Women’s Lives Are Now in Danger from The Taliban – But They Have...
By Jenevieve Mannell
The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has undoubtedly put women’s lives in danger and threatened their human rights in new ways....
Karen Connell: Elite Leadership in a Man’s World
Karen Connell sits at the helm of one of the industry’s leading personal protection companies, Hunter Protection, an organisation she hopes will help to...
Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence
By Paula Larsson
Self-isolation. Quaratine. Lockdown. The outbreak of COVID-19 and its subsequent dissemination across the globe has left a shock wave of disbelief and confusion...
How We Should Talk about Racial Disparities
By Natalie Spievack and Cameron Okeke
Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have emphasized the role of historical and contemporary discrimination in creating and perpetuating disparities...
“Empowering Women Makes Economic Sense”
Interview with James Zhan
Foreign investment holds enormous potential for women’s empowerment through the creation of formal jobs and business linkages – and this is...
Expanding Gay Sex Pardons to Women Won’t Help Most Prosecuted Lesbians
By Caroline Derry
More than a decade after launching a scheme to disregard and pardon convictions for historic “gay sex” offences, the government has now announced the...
Afghan Women Have a Long History of Taking Leadership and Fighting for Their Rights
By Wazhmah Osman and Helena Zeweri
Ever since the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, the question in much of the Western media has been, “What will happen...
Asian American Experiences of Racism During COVID-19
By Sumie Okazaki
From the earliest days of the COVID-19 global pandemic, there has been a surge of anti-Asian hostility directed toward Asian Americans, ranging...
Religion, race and nationality – what are our prejudices and how can we overcome...
By Dr Julian Hargreaves
What do you think of your neighbours? And what do they think of you? Concerns around increasing division and polarisation...
Psychological Effects of the Pandemic on Women
By Lea Laue and Michael Palocz-Andresen
Measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic largely brought public life to a standstill from mid-March 2020 around the world....
Race and Caste: Worlds Apart But Closer Than You Think
By Rajesh Sampath
Combining historical knowledge and awareness of the present situation in America and India, one can deduce that racial and caste-based discrimination are...
Influential Books About Women Empowerment and Being Your Own Boss
Since the 1700s to the 2010s, there has been a steady and healthy abundance of fictional, theoretical, and critical literary works all revolving around...
Why is Gentrification so Gay?
By Dana Collins
What exactly does “gay” have to do with gentrification? Looking at a case study of gay urban community in a global South...
Why Greater Gender Equality in Male-Dominated Sectors is Good For Women and Industry –...
By Tessa Wright
This article explores the working lives of women in manual and professional construction and transport occupations, finding that lesbians and heterosexual women...
The Promotion of “Generational Equity” is a Divisive Pursuit
By Jennie Bristow
Dr. Jennie Bristow tackles the divisive and disruptive effects of focussing on generational differences and equity while highlighting that today’s youth are...
Women in Boardrooms: After Ten Years of Equality Drives, It’s Time for Quotas
By Keith Cuthbertson
The push to more fairly represent women in UK boardrooms is making good progress, according to the final report of the independent Hampton-Alexander review....
Britain’s Top Firms Failing Black Leaders
Green Park's Annual Business Leaders Index Records no Black Chairs, CEOs or CFOs at FTSE 100 Companies for first time in six years.
EMBARGOED TO...
Closing the Gap: The Journey of Women’s Football Wages
In recent years, the landscape of women's football has undergone a remarkable transformation, marked not only by the surging popularity of the sport but...
More Innovation Can Creatively Destroy Firearm Violence
By Dan Prud'homme
We need more investment in two types of technologies that could dramatically reduce gun violence in America: better non-lethal arms and a...
Deconstructing And Dismantling The Rape Culture In India
By Parul Verma
Since the post-colonial era, India has witnessed a history of sexual assault, molestation, rape and violence against its women. On the rise...
Develop a Robust Female Leadership Pipeline
By Alexia Vernon
In this article, Alexia Vernon provides actionable strategies for organisations to develop their next generation female leaders. Grounding her recommendations in research...
Has the Time Come for Hong Kong to Legalise Same-Sex Marriage?
By Dr. Karen Lee
Three controversial bills which would allow gay citizens to marry and adopt are going through Taiwan’s legislative process will, if passed,...
Women Leaders: The Gender Trap
By Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux
In cultivating their leadership style, women have to be conscious of which traits they cultivate and which ones they...
‘Dirty Red’: How Periods Have Been Stigmatised Through History to the Modern Day
By Rachael Gillibrand
About a year ago, at a friend’s wedding, a fellow guest asked whether I knew that modern sanitary towels owe their origins...
Race Against Race
From the Editors
Dubois said that the enduring problem of the 20th Century would be race.
He probably meant that the enduring problem for the...
Nobel Peace Prize 2023: Award for Iranian Women’s Rights Protester Highlights Fight Against Declining...
By Leïla Choukroune
One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi...
Tackling Racism in Football: from Silence to Speaking Out
By Naz Ali
Data released this year has highlighted the not-so-beautiful side of the beautiful game – bringing to the forefront, yet again, deeply rooted...
Ancient Amazons: Warrior Women in Myth and History
By Adrienne Mayor
In Greek myth, Amazons were fierce women of exotic lands who gloried in hunting and war. The greatest Greek heroes, Heracles and...
Women as Global Leaders: Challenges & Strategies for Getting to the Top
By Susan R. Madsen and Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
In this article, Susan R. Madsen and Faith Wambura Ngunjiri discuss the challenges facing women in global leadership...
Women’s World Cup: Five Issues Holding Back the Female Game
By Beth Fielding-Lloyd and Lindsey Mean
The 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup is probably the most highly-anticipated women’s football tournament ever. Part of this hype...
Driving Positive Change for Women through Innovative Private Sector Investments
By Neeti Katoch, Amanda Satterly and Anne Valko Celestino
The growing popularity of gender lens investing is backed by evidence that investing in women makes...
Qatar’s Death Row and the Invisible Migrant Workforce Deemed Unworthy of Due Process
By Jocelyn Hutton, Carolyn Hoyle, and Lucy Harry
Qatari authorities are ignoring international law by failing to inform embassies when their citizens are arrested, detained...
Playing Genocide Politics: The Zenz-Xinjiang Case
By Dr Dan Steinbock
Recently, the Trump and Biden administrations have initiated a genocide case against China. Like during the Cold War, some European leaders...
Asian Pop Culture May be Trending, But so is Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination
By Katherine Lee
From K-beauty to K-pop, Squid Game and Shang Chi, Asian pop culture is trending worldwide.
Nancy Wang Yuen, a sociologist and author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors...
Cyber Racism and What Can Be Learnt from Australia
By Andrew Jakubowicz
Cyber racism has become a widely recognised scourge of the Internet, interacting with violent radicalisation and cyber bullying to make the worldwide...
Confucian Culture and the International Trend of Legalising Same-Sex Marriage
By Karen Lee
Steeped in centuries-old Confucian family order, China appears to be an unlikely place for same-sex marriage. A growing sense of activism, however,...
Multiracism: Why We Need to Pay Attention to the World’s Many Racisms
By Alastair Bonnett
Racism is being called out across the world – and not just in the usual places. The word “racism” has been taken...
White Capital, Black Labour and the After Lives of the Race Problem in Modern...
By Paul R.D. Lawrie
Racism still remains to be a part of white Americans’ subconsciousness. This article discusses the history of racial politics, the persistence...
Getting Women on to Corporate Boards: Consequences of the Norwegian Gender Balance Law
By Morten Huse & Cathrine Seierstad
A snowball has started to roll in Norway as a consequence of the introduction of a gender balance law....
Plus Size Fashion: Capitalistic Feminism or Empowerment?
Imagine you’re a woman trying on clothes in the dressing room. Suddenly the zipper won’t close. The jeans won’t fit. You feel yourself squeezing...
Strengthening Access to Finance for Women in Asia: A Catalyst for Empowerment
By Alexander Ayertey Odonkor
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Providing affordable financial services to women in Asia is an indispensable requirement to the economic empowerment of women in the region. The...
Delay and Deflect: How Women Gig Workers Respond to Sexual Harassment
By Ning Ma and Dongwook Yoon
These days, we use apps to order food, call ride-sharing vehicles, assign home improvement tasks and personal errands. But...
Dogged by Charges of Racism Where is Trump’s Concern for American Workers?
By Kim Petersen
Hillary Clinton described half of Donald Trump’s base as “deplorables” holding racist attitudes. Indeed, many of Trump’s policies do negatively target people...
What Do We Know About Mass Shootings?
By Frederic Lemieux
In this article, the author examines key elements defining mass shootings and the evolution of definitions over time. The article also scrutinises...
South Africa Needs to up its Game When it Comes to Financial Inclusion for...
By Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo
The financial gap between men and women is a global problem. It’s a problem because excluding women financially prevents them from participating...
How Olympic Sexism Is Harming Young Girls
By Michael Kimmel
6 in 10 girls stop doing what they love because they feel badly about their looks. These stats can’t continue if...
Winning the Talent War in Emerging Markets: Women are the Answer
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid
As global companies try to harness the growth and possibilities of emerging markets, the extraordinary energy, ambition and...
Mass Shootings in the US Have Risen Sharply in 2020 – Why?
By Craig Jackson
Despite the US response to the coronavirus pandemic using sporadic stay-at-home orders and lockdowns, as at November 26 2020 there have been...
Tina Turner: An Immense Talent with a Voice and Back Catalogue That Unites Disparate...
By Freya Jarman
On a few rare occasions (often at the end of a night), I’ve confided to my friends that Tina Turner was one...
30 Years of LGBTQ+ History in Russia: From Decriminalisation in 1993 to ‘Extremist’ Status...
By Sergey Katsuba
In 2023, the “LGBTQ+ movement” in Russia was labelled as “extremist”. This marked the culmination of a troubling 30-year cycle from the...
Fear of High-profile Influential Women Keeps Witch Hunts Alive
By Marcelina Horrillo Husillos
Across New England, where witch trials occurred periodically from 1638 until 1725, women were accused and executed at vastly higher rates than...
Who is Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s pick for vice president?
By Bryan Cranston
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has announced Kamala Harris as his running mate for the 2020 election — the first woman of colour to...
Black Elite: Reductio ad absurdum
By Houston A. Baker and K. Merinda Simmons
Reductio ad absurdum is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a “method of proving the falsity...
Internalised Racism in a World Filled with Color: The Case of Yellow-on-Yellow Racism
Racism has been in debate for so long, whether it actually exists, is justified or just downright play. However, in a world full of...
Black Lives Matter in Jamaica: Debates about Colourism Follow Anger at Police Brutality
By Henrice Altink
Across the world, Black Lives Matter protests are continuing in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In the...
Indian Women’s Struggle Against Sexual Violence has had Little Support from the Men in...
By Severyna Magill
Two recent instances of vicious sexual violence against ethnic minority women in the Indian state of Manipur involving gang rape and murder have highlighted...
Japan’s Politics is Opening Up to Women, But Don’t Expect a Feminist Revolution Yet
By Emma Dalton and Mari Miura
Three women have in recent months been appointed to politically powerful positions in Japan. But even as seeing...
Designing a Corporate ESG Programme that Attracts, Nurtures, and Retains Women
By Chaitra Vedullapalli
Inclusion is the new kid on the block that every company interested in advancement is courting. And one of the best methods...
When Employers Reward ‘Ideal’ Workers, Gender Equality Suffers
By Shireen Kanji
UK deputy prime minister Dominic Raab recently resigned following the publication of a report into workplace complaints about his conduct, including bullying...
The Olympics strive for political neutrality. So, how will they deal with surging athlete...
By Dr. Michelle O’Shea, Dr. Daryl Adair, Hazel Maxwell, and Dr. Megan Stronach
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has long tried to insulate itself from...
Guilt, Shame, Dissatisfaction: Workers and Customers on the Gig Economy (and how to make...
By David Bissell
The gig economy is in trouble. Rideshare drivers are cancelling in droves. Wait times for food delivery are ballooning out and driver shortages are leading...
5 Years After the #MeToo Movement: Positive Accomplishments
The #MeToo movement started over ten years ago, aiming to spread a clear message to survivors of sexual harassment: you are not alone. However,...
A Beauty Premium and a Plainness Penalty: Attractiveness at Work
By Adrian Furnham
Are physically attractive people seriously advantaged at work?
Are they more likely to be selected, promoted, and given higher salaries? Does being physically...
Why Menstrual Leave Could Be Bad for Women
By Sally King
Spain recently adopted a menstrual leave policy, which makes additional (paid or unpaid) days off work available to “only and all cisgender women”.
It’s...
Facing the Shadow of Colonialism in Trump’s America
By Nozomi Hayase
From Muslim bans to attacks on LGBTQ communities and immigrants, the Trump presidency is regressing civil society with a colonial hierarchy. In...
“Comfort Women” and History
By Dan Steinbock
Empirical evidence for the truth-seeking rationale for freedom of expression – the assertion that truth prevails in a free marketplace of ideas...
Hair and Skin are Important to a Black Child’s Identity – But Many Social...
By Zoe Thomas
Skin and hair can be integral to a young black person’s sense of self. Yet in the UK, black children and young...
Women Warriors: Sex, Violence, and the Media
By Kelly Oliver
Women’s violence is given more media attention than men’s because of the connection between sex and violence in our cultural imaginary. Stereotypes...
Black Girls are 4.19 Times More Likely to Get Suspended than White Girls –...
By Andrea Joseph-McCatty
Andrea Joseph-McCatty is an assistant professor at the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Her research examines disproportional school suspensions...
Being the Main Breadwinner Didn’t Necessarily Keep Married Mums in Work During the Pandemic
By Leah Ruppanner, Caitlyn Collins, Liana Christin Landivar, and William Scarborough
In the toughest days of the pandemic, many dual-income families made the difficult choice...
Why Outside Experts Are Worried About the Decline of LGBTI Rights in the UK
By Peter Dunne
Until recently, the UK was often praised as a global leader for protecting LGBTI people. Now, it is seen to be falling...
It’s Our Economy Too: Gender Equality Is Not A Luxury To Be Abandoned In...
By Charlotte O’Brien
In spite of high profile commitments, progress on gender equality has stalled in the EU. Dr Charlotte O’Brien argues that male-dominated institutions...
Hate Crime Laws Are a Form of Discrimination
By James Jacobs
In a hierarchy of victims, where do murdered police officers belong? The move to conceptualise attacks on police as hate crime is...
Six Misunderstood Concepts About Diversity in the Workplace and Why They Matter
By Ciarán McFadden
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace is a sensitive topic. People are afraid to get things wrong or to use the wrong...
Why Gender Inequality Persists
By Mary Evans
Gender inequality persists throughout the world. Even if the forms of that inequality differ from those of the past, there are still...
Heinz Junkermann – A Daughter’s Perspective
Nicole Junkermann learnt about business at a young age. As a girl, she’d be taken into meetings by her father Heinz Junkermann and offered an insight...
Gender washing: seven kinds of marketing hypocrisy about empowering women
By Rosie Walters
At a time of so much focus on how women are held back and treated unfairly, corporations spend multiple millions telling us...
Is a New Wave of Covid-Fascism Invading Europe?
By Peter Koenig
German Doctor, Co-founder of ACU - German Extra-Parliamentary Commission for (Covid) Investigation, Arrested - and Swiss Parliament extending the Swiss Covid Emergency...
Lesbian Culture Is Being Erased Because Investors Think Only Gay Men (And Straight People)...
By Marcie Bianco
Money is an ideology. It has value because we believe it does. Similarly, consumer confidence–the quintessential barometer for investors–holds incredible sway in...
How the EDGE Business Certification for Gender Equality is a Game Changer for Business...
By Aniela Unguresan
The achievement of gender equality in the workplace will improve culture, behaviours, profitability and productivity. Globally women generate 37% of global GDP...
What Do a Black Scientist, Nonprofit Executive and Filmmaker Have in Common? They All...
By Adia Harvey Wingfield
American workplaces talk a lot about diversity these days. In fact, you’d have a hard time finding a company that says...
Can Women Fix Capitalism?
By Joanna Barsh
Gender equality at the top of business has stalled, and trust in business is alarmingly low. Putting more women in charge could...
The Good, The Bad, and The Rational
By Deborah Heikes
Enlightenment thinkers tell us “all men are created equal” while simultaneously owning slaves, disenfranchising women, and supporting colonialism. The article offers solutions...
Enduring Gender Inequality in Politics: Where to from here?
By Emma Dalton
Women political leaders are no longer anomalies. But gender parity in politics is still a long way off. This paper considers why...
Parity in Progress: A New Future for Women in Energy
By Katie Mehnert
Women’s rights have been front and centre in recent weeks, given the current political climate. But movement toward change has been brewing...
Adenomyosis: From Symptoms to Treatment, Two Women’s Health Experts Explain This Little Known Condition
By Jen and Nura
BBC presenter Naga Munchetty recently revealed that she suffers from adenomyosis, a chronic condition that affects the uterus. She spoke of how her pain...
The Wall Street Journal, Economist and Financial Times All Now Have Female Editors –...
By Heather McGregor
February 1 was a date to celebrate for women in business everywhere. It happened to be the day that water group Severn...
The Dark Plight of Immigrants in the Racist Era of Trump
By Alvaro Huerta
This essay argues that President Donald J. Trump represents an existential threat to immigrants in the United States. Trump’s immigration rhetoric and...