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Pakistan, Bangladesh fail to tackle online violence

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SOUTH ASIA

However, women as well as gender minorities in these countries have experienced an uptick in cyberviolence in recent years. Most existing laws lack clear definition on what…

Japan gender equality policies have economic goals

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JAPAN

Gender inequality in Japan.

Foreign policies are adopting gender goals, but slowly

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INT

This trend is paralleled by an increase in other types of gender equality policies being promoted in the development, diplomatic, security and trade sectors in numerous other…

Canberra spends more to reduce Indigenous inequalities

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AUSTRALIA

The government admitted that earlier efforts to improve Indigenous livelihoods had been an “enormous failure”, with many goals set out in the Closing the Gap programme still…

EU gender strategy will struggle to close rising gaps

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EU

Her Commission is making a concerted push to advance gender equality. To that end, it has brought forward an integral element of its 2020 Gender Equality Strategy (GES): a draft…

Pandemic takes tough toll on informal women workers

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INT

Policy measures taken in response to the economic crisis created by the pandemic have largely been gender-blind, exacerbating the long-standing economic precarity and gender…

Development bodies boost gender mainstreaming effort

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INT

Development institutions are adapting their responses to tackle this challenge.

US corporate gender diversity is improving very slowly

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US

However, above-trend retirement rates among older white-collar male employees because of the pandemic, the tightness of labour markets for professionals and stakeholder pressures…

Growing gender parity will aid global growth prospects

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INTERNATIONAL

Gender parity benefits and initiatives.

Reality will fall short of Abe's 'womenomics' goals

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JAPAN

Japan's female workforce.