GenderEquality
The "pink tax" is not a legal tax, but rather a surcharge or markup on products traditionally marketed towards women, while typically the male version of the same products are less expensive. This can be seen in personal care items such as shampoos, razors, deodorants and more, as well as clothing, shoes and toys, amongst others. Services such as haircuts, car repairs and maintenance, dry cleaning are also affected. Although the pink tax has been spoken about ever since the 1990s, if not earlier, it was taken more seriously in 2015, following the Department of Consumer Affairs in New York City...
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MEPs spent the past 10 months tweaking and upgrading their own rules of procedure – a process initiated by Parliament president Roberta Metsola. The scope of the reform was to address longstanding problems, such as diminished relevance when set against the other EU institutions and visible absenteeism in the chamber during some topical debates. The process ended last week when new rules were finally approved by MEPs. Here’s a sneak peek of how parliamentary business will change during the next mandate. ‘Super’ committeesWith the EU executive increasingly presenting ‘packages’ of laws rather th...
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The right to equal pay for work of equal value has been in place for years. One of the earliest countries in Europe to implement equal pay laws for women was Iceland in 1961, with other countries following suit. Despite this, women throughout Europe still earn much less than men: in 2022, the gender pay gap was 12.7% in the EU, which means women were earning €87.30 for every €100 earned by men. The persisting gender pay gap has even led to the concept of Women’s Pay Day — a day each year on which the average woman symbolically stops working for free based on salary comparison to the average ma...
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With less than four months before the much-anticipated event, the International Olympic Committee emphasises the event will be the first gender-equal one in history. One of the hashtags used in the promotional material for the 2024 Paris Summer Games is #GenderEqualOlympics. These upcoming Olympic Games will indeed have a 50 per cent participation rate between men and women. However, in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, 48.8 per cent of participants were women – very close to achieving full parity. But in certain disciplines, the parity is not respected. Wrestling, for example, is a sport where only me...
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Afghanistan's school year has begun, but girls will not be visible in many of its classrooms. The Taliban has barred female pupils from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with formal restrictions on female education. The UN children's agency says more than 1 million girls are affected by the ban. It also estimates 5 million were out of school before the Taliban takeover thanks to a lack of facilities and other factors. The Taliban's education ministry marked the start of the new academic year with a ceremony that female journalists were not allowed to attend. ...
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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar conceded defeat on Saturday as two constitutional amendments he supported that would have broadened the definition of family and removed language about a woman’s role at home were headed toward rejection in early vote tallies. Varadkar, who pushed the vote to enshrine gender equality in the constitution by removing “very old-fashioned language” and trying to recognise the realities of modern family life, said it was clear the amendments were “defeated comprehensively on a respectable turnout.” “It was our responsibility to convince the majority of people to vo...
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From local action to global finance, there are ways to ensure that climate adaptation programmes address gender inequalities. Amina is one of tens of thousands of Kenyans displaced by catastrophic floods – aggravated by climate change – in late 2023. Her home destroyed, she and her child sought temporary shelter along with several other women from her community. “Our husbands left to take the livestock to high areas where floods would not hit,” she recalls. “Only women remained…. This led to an increase in rape cases for young girls and women”. With the floods preventing access to hospitals, o...
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The gender pay gap is still very much evident in Europe. Several indicators exhibit the inequality between women and men in many arenas, but economic life is one of the key areas affecting women the most. Despite some improvements in Europe, women still suffer from gender gaps when it comes to wages, labour force participation, employment and hierarchical positions in the workplace. On International Women’s Day (March 8), an annual initiative promoted by the United Nations to raise awareness of gender-related issues, Euronews Next crunches the data in these main indicators to give a fuller pic...
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The anticipation is high as over nine million Portuguese citizens prepare to cast their votes in the upcoming early legislative elections scheduled for next Sunday. Israel-Hamas war: Hopes dim for truce before Ramadan, Gazans still starvingLast year, a corruption investigation led to the discovery of €75,800 in the office of the prime minister's chief of staff. This revelation triggered a scandal that ultimately resulted in the downfall of the government, prompting the early general election. As the election campaign reaches its final stages, the focus of the two main candidates has shifted to...
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Women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are discriminated against as they try to adapt to other sources of income in times of crises, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), “The Unjust Climate,” found that female-headed rural households lose on average 8% more of their income during heat waves and 3% more during floods, compared to male-headed households. “Considering the significant existing differences in agricultural productivity and wages between women and men, the study sugge...
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