Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Schnall is a journalist who amplifies women’s leadership. In recent years, we have heard various alarming estimates about ...

Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

Gender equality doesn’t top any country’s international agenda – yet. But ever more countries, including the US, are starting to discern that women’s rights really are human rights. On International ...

If you are starting your career today, you will hopefully see evidence of how far gender equality has come at work. You may have experienced little gender difference in educational attainment, see ...

The escalating humanitarian crises we see today impact women and girls differently and disproportionately. In addition, the world has witnessed a global rollback on women’s and girls’ rights over the ...

Gen Z women and men are more divided than any other generation on a host of topics related to gender. Young women and men in their late teens and twenties are more divided than any other age cohort ...

The EU and its member states work together to prevent and combat violence against women and girls, protect victims and punish offenders. Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic ...

The “Me Too” phrase was coined in 2006 to raise awareness about sexual abuse and harassment. In 2017, that phrase evolved into a movement sparked by a celebrity tweet encouraging women to come forward ...