Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme ...

Equality in healthcare is an admirable goal, but it’s still not enough. Barriers to access and education create inequity in health outcomes. Removing those barriers is an essential step in achieving ...

The centennial of the day the 19th Amendment took effect is not the only historic occasion to be marked this August 26, which was designated as Women’s Equality Day by the U.S. Congress in 1973. It ...

More women in leadership, a narrowing pay gap and superannuation added to paid parental leave are among the gender equality wins notched by Australia in 2025.

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 ...

Gender equality was supposed to reduce gender stratification and segregation in academic and professional pursuits. Instead, ...

International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women all around the world and inspire future generations of women and girls to ...

2021 started as a banner year for LGBTQ rights. In January, newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden signed a pair of executive orders to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender ...

Discriminatory laws and poor enforcement foster victim-blaming and harmful stereotypes, enabling impunity for perpetrators in League of Arab States countries. Various forms of sexual violence are not ...

A conversation with the historian Darrin McMahon about his new book Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea and the strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism. Ad ...

“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty,” Abraham Lincoln once remarked, “and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using ...

The Equality Act is 31 pages long, and devotes thousands of painstakingly drafted words to prohibiting "sex discrimination." In all those pages, however, the word "female" never appears. That's by ...