Gender Equity

In the U.S., underrepresented ethnic groups make up 40% of the population but only 12.5% of board directors. Black directors make up just 4% and Black women make up just…

Over one million women are controlled by the criminal justice system and over 741,000 women are in prison worldwide. Globally, the number of women in prison is estimated to have increased by about 59…

Kelli Dillon was only 24 when a surgeon at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla decided that she was not fit to be a parent and intentionally sterilized her…

Women and people of color are largely missing from movie roles depicting physicians, a new study finds.

How rural women are unbraiding borders to reclaim power in agrarian India…

Acts of protest and revolution have historically been powered by ordinary-but-extraordinary Black women like Gilmore: leaders and strategists, some formally educated, most not, the majority whose names aren’t instantly recognizable…

Girls and women do not experience climate change in the same ways as boys and men. The reason? Historical and structural gender inequalities — which also affect how, and to…

Starting a business is no easy feat, but the journey is often met with even greater challenges for Black women entrepreneurs. Access to capital remains a significant obstacle, as traditional funding sources tend to overlook or undervalue the potential of Black women-led ventures.

Some 28% of women working for colleges believe they have been passed over for a promotion because of their gender, according to new survey data from Gallup. Hispanic and Asian women were…

Jeannie Infante Sager is the director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, which works to “conduct, curate, and disseminate research that grows women’s philanthropy.”…

We must address disparities faced by women of color, especially in medicine and dentistry.

“The problem is precisely this myth that science is best done in such a way that parallels the way most male students are.”…