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Byline: Amy Rose Dobson Cheryl Waters, 74, was getting ready for a trip to Puerto Rico to celebrate her wedding anniversary with her second husband when she took a step [...]

Byline: Rebecca Root Governments are failing to invest in women and girls and, as a result, are missing out on billions in economic gains, according to a new UN report. [...]

Nairobi, Nov. 17 -- Globally, women continue to face greater challenges in securing employment compared to men. Despite years of progress, the gender gap in labour force participation has stubbornly [...]

Byline: Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (IPS) - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty The growing gender gap between men and women is reflected not only in the [...]

FRANKFURT: THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ROBOTICS has issued the following news release: Labor shortages hamper future economic growth worldwide. World Bank predicts that GDP per capita would be almost 20 [...]

Byline: DAVID KEYTON, MIKE CORDER; ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN -- Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University professor, was awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that helps explain why [...]

Byline: Phillip Inman The Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has won the Nobel economics prize in recognition of her groundbreaking work examining wage inequality between men and women. The Royal Swedish [...]

CASA Del.AMERCIA, Madrid -- The following information was released by the President of the Government of Spain: The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, inaugurated the meeting in [...]

Byline: Quratulain Fatima ISLAMABAD, Jan 15 (IPS) - (https://www.weforum.org/) The World Economic Forum is hosting world leaders in Davos from January 15-19 2024. One of the key themes for the [...]

Byline: Morgan Hines, USA TODAY Last May, after weeks of hunting, my boyfriend and I found what we were looking for: A one-bedroom apartment with outdoor space, in-unit laundry, and [...]

Byline: DONNA SMITH Director of MBA programs at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University Last month, the news filled with reports that the U.S. women's soccer team [...]

Washington, DC: The World Bank Group has issued the following press release: Closing the wide gender gap in economic opportunities could lift more people out of poverty and unlock Malawi's [...]

ILONGWE -- The following information was released by the World Bank: Malawi is lagging across several indicators related to women's economic opportunities although the country has one of the highest [...]

LILONGWE, -- The following information was released by the World Bank: Closing the wide gender gaps in economic opportunities could lift more people out of poverty and unlock Malawi's full [...]

A collection of educational programs created for women byLiderançaGroup, a female-owned and led business, focuses on helping women develop the skills needed to be successful across various business disciplines. ATLANTA, [...]

Byline: Michel Nkurunziza Rwanda Civil Society Platform has recommended managers of Covid-19 Economic Recovery Plan (ERP) to design specific financial products for women and particularly women with disabilities that are [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The following information was released by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: Closing racial and gender gaps is not a zero-sum game. Imagine if racial [...]

Byline: Annemarie Foy Newly approved by Student Activities Office this semester, Notre Dame's Women in Economics club aims to empower women to pursue economics in their academic and professional careers. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Date and Time Tuesday Mar. 9, 2021 11:30am -- 1:00pm ET This event will be [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Peterson Institute for International Economics: Simeon Djankov (PIIE) and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang (PIIE) Despite some progress over recent decades in reducing [...]

According to the latest report on Global Gender Gap, women, globally, perform 66 percent of the labor and produce half of the food, but earn only 10 percent of the [...]

Byline: Emma Goldberg Between 1960 and 2018, U.S. industry transformed, as the workforce shifted from one that was smaller, whiter and focused on manufacturing to one that was larger, more [...]

2021 MAY 5 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Education Letter -- Fresh data on Economics are presented in a new report. According to news originating from [...]

STILLWATER, OK -- The following information was released by the Oklahoma State University: Assistant professor of economics Dr. Laura Ahlstrom's award-winning research looking at a correlation between the success of [...]

Byline: Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, USA TODAY NETWORK Although the Valentine's Day candy is rapidly exiting store shelves everywhere, romance - and the scams that go with it - [...]

Washington, DC: The World Bank Group has issued the following press release: Albania will improve gender equality in access to economic opportunities with support from a USD10 million loan approved [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the World Bank: Albania will improve gender equality in access to economic opportunities with support from a USD10 million loan approved today [...]

isAccessibleForFree' content='true'/> While most students dread buying textbooks, 17-year-old Iris Fu, part-time Oregon State University student, wrote and published her own in September, inspired by the push for more women [...]

- The Professor of Economics at Harvard University has made 'groundbreaking contributions to the historical analysis of the role of women in the economy,' says the award committee, with research [...]

Byline: Daniel B. Kline The Motley Fool If you want to find love or keep it going, you better be ready to open up your wallet. Single people spend the [...]

Byline: Nalini Khurana, Ravi VermaNEW DELHI, Dec 20 (IPS) - Most initiatives around Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) are largely myopic in their approach. Failure to recognise the role of men [...]

Byline: Kristalina Georgieva and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Kristalina Georgieva is the chief executive officer of the World Bank. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is chair of the Global Alliance for Vaccines [...]

2019 MAR 20 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Education Letter -- Current study results on Science - Social Science have been published. According to news reporting [...]

Byline: Laura Clydesdale 'I need to feed my pig!' my daughter said as she ran with the coins to her beloved purple piggy bank many years ago. Firmly fixed in [...]

Byline: TAVIA GRANT, DAVID PARKINSON In mid-February, Bill Morneau, the Finance Minister in the most gender-diverse cabinet in Canada's history, went to Bay Street for the high-profile annual prebudget consultation [...]

For girls to be motivated to pursue technology courses up to the highest possible levels, their parents should be made aware of potential opportunities and benefits. FILE PHOTO | NMG [...]

Geneva: World Economic Forum has issued the following news release: A new Gender Parity Task Force is being established in Argentina to increase the numbers of women entering and progressing [...]

Women who open a bank account gain greater economic empowerment, save more for things such as health emergencies and their children's education, and purchase more nutritious food. So says Leora [...]

GENEVA, Oct 26, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Progress towards parity between men and women in terms of economic opportunity has slowed dramatically with the gap standing larger than at [...]

Byline: Ivana Kottasova LONDON (CNNMoney) -- The economic gap between men and women in the United States is growing -- not shrinking. And it's costing the economy $1.2 trillion a [...]

Byline: Jeanne Sahadi NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Want to grow the economy? Want to boost your company's bottom line? Hire more women and make it easier for them and for [...]

Byline: Jena McGregor Another day, it seems, another study about the gender gap in careers. Over the last week, Gallup told us women are more pessimistic about the job market. [...]

Byline: Roberto A. Ferdman The American workforce is particularly unkind to heavier women. The more overweight a woman, the more likely she is to work a low-paying job, according to [...]

Byline: Jonnelle Marte WASHINGTON - Women are just as likely to put away money for retirement as men - but they are way behind their male counterparts in total savings, [...]

Byline: Cecilia Kang Four years ago, Google was confronted with a troubling stat: Its male engineers were getting promoted at far higher rates than female employees. Google could not understand [...]