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Club members, including writer and actor Stephen Fry, assembled yesterday at the Garrick, located in London’s theatre district, to debate and vote on the issue. The members, many of them wearing pale pink and green club ties reminiscent of marshmallow flumps, debated the question of women’s membership behind closed doors before putting the matter to a vote. It passed by an almost perfect 60:40 split. Why now? Pressure to admit women to the Garrick has been mounting for decades. But recently, calls to address the stark inequality intensified after the Guardian revealed last month the previously...
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), males live up to 69 years of age while females generally reach 74 on average. But a new study has revealed how sex and gender shape our health and longevity. Being male or female interacts with other variables, such as race, socio-economic status, age, or sexual orientation, increasing the risk of different diseases and varying life expectancy. The new study00053-7/fulltext), published in The Lancet, concluded that men experience a greater degree of health loss and have a higher burden of diseases that lead to premature death, but that women su...
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Over 90% of the best paid bankers in the EU are men, according to figures published by the European Banking Authority (EBA) last Thursday (25 April). For investment firms, the figure – which counts staff who earned over €1 million in 2022 – is over 96%, highlighting the scale of the financial sector’s gender pay gap. EU regulators collect data on financiers’ high pay – driven by the concern that big bonuses can encourage risky behaviour in staff, potentially causing a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. For the first time ever, the data now includes a male-female breakdown – and it paints a t...
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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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