According to the ILO, women are more exposed to GenAI than men in 88% of countries, with the highest levels of exposure recorded in small island countries in the Pacific and the Caribbean, in some ...
The gap between men and women entering care-sector jobs like teaching, nursing, and social work is often larger in more gender-equal countries. A new study links this pattern to economic development ...
A new paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that people who are the gender minority in their workplace are more likely to experience sexual ...
In an age of supposed gender-neutral hiring, the job market is still sharply divided between “male” and “female” occupations. Perhaps it is a mistake to promote equality of numbers when what really ...
GenAI is not hitting the world of work in a gender-neutral way, shaped by persistent gender inequality in the workplace ...
A participant in the Women in Construction program. Photo courtesy of Moore Community House. When Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast in 2005, the storm decimated entire communities in ...
Many women and men still work in sex-typed occupations. One important reason for this is that men are selectively leaving occupations that are increasingly taken up by women, a recent study from the ...
For generations, these policies opened doors for girls across social classes, making Sri Lankan women among the most educated and healthiest in South Asia. In many ways, Sri Lankan women have been the ...