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Childcare costs drive UK women out of workforce

The cost of childcare in the UK is among the highest in the world, and is driving many women to leave the workforce. Access to affordable childcare is a crucial element in addressing gender inequality. On International Women's Day, we also look at efforts to promote female entrepreneurs in the…

France 24

Australian gender inequality 'not zero-sum game'

A task force on women's economic equality will recommend the federal government pay superannuation on paid parental leave and improve childcare rules.

AAP

Dis Life: 'Disabled people 4 times more likely to die by suicide - where is the action?'

There is such deep rooted systemic inequality when it comes to how Disabled people are treated in this country that this is not news to Disabled people. And it is forgettable or ignorable news to most non-disabled people

Daily Mirror

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Japan activists demand dual-surname option on Women's Day

Women’s rights activists in Japan are renewing their demand for the government to allow married couples the option to keep both of their surnames, saying the current practice in which most women face social pressure to adopt their husbands’ surnames — a prewar tradition based on paternalistic family values —…

The Independent UK

The pandemic exposed gender inequality: Let's seize the opportunity to remedy it

This year, we are commemorating International Women’s Day alongside the three-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Conversation

Want to properly plug the UK’s north-south divide? Look to Germany

Boosting spending power, increasing public funding for science and tech skills, R&D and infrastructure could work

The Guardian - UK

Who made you king of everything? Angela Saini on the origins of patriarchy

The journalist has written acclaimed books tackling race science and gender inequality. Next up, the patriarchy – which is neither natural nor inevitable, she argues

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The Gender Health Gap: the scandal of sexism in medicine

Dr Marieke Bigg’s new book on the gender health gap is inspired by her own experiences of medical inequality, she explains to Claire Cohen

Evening Standard

Friday essay: how policies favouring rich, older people make young Australians Generation F-d

Working to buy your own home is a rite of passage in Australia, firmly rooted in a time when government delivered plentiful, affordable housing. Following the senseless poverty and destitution inflicted by price-gouging landlords during the Depression, we created a better, more equitable housing system after World War II.

The Conversation

Growing farmland inequality in the Prairies poses problems for all Canadians

Real estate is a hot topic in Canada. Most Canadians are acutely aware of how home prices and rents have skyrocketed in the last 15 years or so. In large cities, investor ownership of condos and houses has attracted the attention of policymakers and the public at large, prompting the…

The Conversation

Tackling the 15-minute cities conspiracy means fixing inequality

Under layers of misinformation, UK inequality is rising after decade of flatlining progress for most people

The Guardian - UK

Please stop blaming baby boomers for the woes of today’s younger generations

Letters: Responses to Polly Toynbee’s piece on intergenerational inequality from Nick Moss, Marilyn Sandy, Peter Riddle and Tom Cannon

The Guardian - UK

WASPI campaign vows to take government watchdog to court over 'serious' errors

Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) says it plans to take the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to court over 'serious' mistakes about the injustice women born in the 1950s suffered

Daily Mirror

3 things the pandemic taught us about inequality in college — and why they matter today

Elise, a nursing student at an elite U.S. university in the Northeast, found herself back home and sleeping on the floor of her parents’ one-bedroom apartment after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020.

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Alan Kohler: RBA defence of interest-rate mallet highlights the truth about inequality

The first thing is that inequality is worsened by the responses to both low inflation and high inflation; it’s a lose/lose.

The Guardian - UK

US ranking on abuse of power index hurt by inequality and violence

Country came near median of 163 countries on Index of Impunity, higher than Hungary and Singapore

The Independent UK

Biden taking new steps to address racial inequality in gov't

The White House says President Joe Biden is taking new steps to address racial inequality throughout the federal government

Daily Record

WASPI West Lothian women continue their campaign for pension justice

Members of the WASPI West Lothian (Women Against State Pension Injustice) met with MP Hannah Bardell to voice their concerns over their unfair treatment

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Faye Flam: Another sign of inequality: minutes spent waiting

We’ve waited far too long for a scientific study of waiting. From queues to telephone holds to waiting rooms, delays are all around us and they’re miserable. And according to new research just published in Nature Human Behavior, lower income people and Black people of all income levels get stuck…

The Conversation

Invisible Trillions review: global capitalism operates beyond the rule of law and threatens democracy

Secrecy has become as important for corporations as transparent and taxable profits used to be, according to Raymond W. Baker in his new book Invisible Trillions. Global capitalism, he argues, operates beyond the rule of law. This contributes to extreme inequality that threatens liberal democracy.

Reuters

Colombians march to support President Petro's social and economic reforms

Thousands of people took to the streets across Colombia's major cities on Tuesday to support economic and social reforms put forward by President Gustavo Petro as part of efforts to reduce poverty, exclusion and inequality in the South American country.

The Conversation

Global inequality must fall to maintain a safe climate and achieve a decent standard of living for all – it's a huge challenge

Energy consumption is essential for human wellbeing, but there is enormous inequality in energy use worldwide. The top 10% of global energy consumers use roughly 30 times more energy than the bottom 10%.

The Guardian - UK

My generation is sucking Britain’s young people dry. Why are politicians too scared to admit it?

The social contract between young and old is broken and inequality is out of control. The government must step in, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Wealth inequality across race: what does the data show?

While white households make 64% of the population, they held more than 80% of all wealth measured in assets in 2022.

The Guardian - UK

‘Bank of mum and dad’ stoking Britain’s rising inequality, warns report

Billions in gifts or loans given when children are in early adulthood and buying first home or getting married

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