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Despite its image as a paradise of fairness, women earn less than men. Now Iceland has become the first country in the world to enforce equal pay 
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Hundreds of Poles gathered in front of the parliament building in Warsaw on Saturday evening to protest against proposals for tight restrictions on abortion debated by lawmakers this week.
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October 26, 2020 2:25 AM
No one should have power over anyone’s body especially in situations as serious as this. There are so many reasons to not want to keep a child.
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Schools must encourage young people to question gender norms and behaviours, and ensure that sex education goes beyond biology
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From paid paternity leave to universal daycare, Finland is closing the gender gap. What can it teach the rest of the world?
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The updated Gender Equality Index shows where Europe stands today. We are moving forward but overall progress is very slow. The EU’s score is just four points higher than ten years ago, now 66.2 out of 100. The top performing country is Sweden with a score of 82.6, while Greece moved to the bottom with 50 points. The award for the most improved country goes to Italy, which made a big leap and gained 12.9 points to place itself at rank 14 on the ladder.
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The Harvey Weinstein revelations have highlighted a surprising ignorance about an issue that affects every workplace. So how common is it, why don’t more women report it – and what should be done?
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Baraah Luhaid is determined to cycle freely, and she is encouraging other women to join Spokes Hub, her gender-inclusive cycling community
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Too many ads objectify women’s bodies or reinforce traditional roles, a report by the British advertising regulator has found.
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A 24-year-old broke with 900 years of tradition when she passed the strict boating exam – but why have no other women joined her?
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These three parties are only a part of the right-wing populist anti-feminism that is spreading across Europe. The European Women’s Lobby and its members continue to keep track, and evolve policies to resist.
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Female academics can be just as aggressively competitive with other colleagues as men, but it slips under the radar
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A Stockholm suburb is to become the first place in Sweden designed with feminist urban planning in mind, as a housing firm attempts to redress the gender balance in the area's centre through renovation.
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"Limits on contraception, end of domestic violence protection, and an ongoing push to ban abortion — and that's just the start" Via gender issues-human rights
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More than one billion women lack legal protection against domestic sexual violence, says new research from the World Bank.
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The safety measure reflects concern about large-scale sexual assaults at public events in Germany.
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We must tackle the stereotypes that stop women applying for top jobs in higher education. Until then, UK universities will remain bastions of gender inequality
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"The average Global Gender Gap stands at 68%, and widened in 2017 for the first time since the World Economic Forum (WEF) began tracking the divide. The Index measures equality between men and women in 144 countries worldwide in four key sectors: health, education and political and economic participation."
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The NHS has been outsourcing the procedure and failing to train specialist staff. Now hundreds of women can’t get an abortion, putting their lives at risk
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Girlguiding poll finds more than half, aged 7-21, lacking confidence to speak freely, while society reinforces barriers to progress
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Author, activist and artist whose 1970 book Sexual Politics was a bestselling and hugely influential critique of patriarchal ideology
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The Global Workplace Equality Index (GWEI) is the definitive benchmarking tool for global LGBT workplace equality, designed to meet the specific needs of multinational organisations. Via heather dawson
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Feminism has become an attractively wrapped package that is well suited for mass distribution. But what problems does this lead to? Gender in Sweden talked to consumption researcher Magdalena Petersson McIntyre.
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Email with suggested dress code from the Brussels Free University’s (ULB) medicine faculty condemned as sexist
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The exhibition and public program, featuring both archival material and newly commissioned art works, trace the beginnings of a transnational and intersectional perspective in Belgian feminism and beyond. 'Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power' combines an exhibition with a public program of lectures, panel discussions, performances and screenings to present stories from the history of feminist struggle. Issues of race, gender and class are covered from a so-called intersectional perspective, an approach that works to bring to the fore the combinations of discriminatory practices and the dynamics they engender.
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Women’s voices are still missing from the top branches of governments, slowing achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN says.
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