Eight years ago, Yuriko Koike became the first woman to lead Tokyo, beating her male predecessor. She won her third term as ...

What is Women’s Equality Day? Women’s Equality Day, celebrated annually on August 26, commemorates the adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote in the United ...

H.E. Mr. Abdulaziz M. Alwasil is Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations and Chair of the Bureau for the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Schnall is a journalist who amplifies women’s leadership. Top row, from left: Fatima Goss Graves, Ai-jen Poo, Stacey ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa Houston covers financial issues that affect women in business. Despite significant progress over the past few decades, ...

The United Nations has lamented that gender inequality remains one of the greatest human rights challenges globally, as women across the world enjoy only 64 per cent of the legal rights available to ...

IMO aims to bring focus to the difficulties faced by women in the maritime sector and the sector’s difficulties in building ...

A new report by the African Development Bank Group and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has revealed that African women have made significant strides towards gender equality in ...

After a years-long legal battle, the Federal Court of Australia has handed down a judgment in a landmark case about gender discrimination law. It found a transgender woman was directly discriminated ...