Tag Archives: Inequality
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Is property inheritance widening the wealth gap?
Whether we are increasingly living in a system not necessarily defined by class but by our inherited wealth gets a mixed reception from economists
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Does who you are impact how well you sleep?
As with many things in life, your quality of sleep is affected by the situation in which you are born. So how can race, gender or income group have such an effect on the way we sleep and how much we get?
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How ingrained bias is harming female healthcare
How unbalanced participation in clinical trials and a basic misunderstanding of women’s health needs have resulted in unequal levels of public care
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Calling time on sexist stereotypes in advertising
New rules banning sexist depictions of women cleaning and men struggling to change nappies will force advertising to be more creative, instead of relying on harmful, outdated stereotypes
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It’s time to tackle the gender pension gap
More needs to be done to ensure women are as financially prepared for retirement as men, yet experts remain at odds over potential solutions
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Financial services missing out by holding women back
While corporate America has been making incredible strides in efforts for gender representation and equality, there is still much to be done in this arena, specifically within the financial services industry
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Tackling the stigma around male infertility
Fertility is a medical frontier where the gender gap is disturbingly wide and male infertility an under-researched part of the conception equation
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Female inventors and gender imbalance in patent applications
Patent holders are usually men as, for a number of reasons, women tend to go unrecognised as inventors