Jordi Roth

Sheryl Sandberg has long wanted to ban words like “bossy” when referring to young girls.

There’s a simple solution to closing the gender pay gap, as Sweden’s biggest union, Kommunal, demonstrates in a 47 second video.

It was hailed as a win for diversity, and last night’s Academy Awards ceremony was refreshingly diverse, but once again the Oscars highlighted the gender gap in Hollywood with not a single woman nominated in the Best Director category and few females among the best Original or Adapted Screenplay nominees.

She might not be able to drive to work but a Saudi Arabian woman has cracked through one ceiling to become the first female to be appointed as the editor of a national newspaper in the country.

South Korea has come up with an original way of addressing gender disparity in the workforce.

Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, Meg Whitman, Virginia Rometty: They’re all highly influential women in the tech sector.

It’s no secret that gender inequality on screen is a persistent problem.

Researchers for the American Sociological Review may have found an explanation for why the gender pay gap persists: it all comes down to who is more willing to stay back longer in the office.

India has opened the first ever-state owned bank for women in Mumbai, aimed at providing loans and financial services to women and addressing broader gender issues.

Germany is set to introduce legislation that will require its top DAX-listed companies to assign 30% of its non-executive board seats to women beginning in 2016.

In an era where films like The Heat and Bridesmaids are considered “groundbreaking” simply because so few non-romantic comedies starring females exist, a group of Swedish cinemas is determined to combat the issue of gender bias onscreen.

It’s quite extraordinary how far women have managed to come in the professional world without really knowing how to do things properly.