Iceland's Prime Minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, joined women across the country in a strike to demand an end to unequal pay and gender-based...

Tens of thousands of women and non-binary individuals in Iceland, including Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir, are organizing a historic s...

Earlier India had opposed the inclusion of non-trade issues like gender in its trade pacts. On India’s patent office, Goyal said: “About 1,...

On the health and survival subindex, India ranked the lowest at 146th place and figured among the five countries with gender gaps larger th...

UK’s four days week trial is to begin on Monday. This will continue for six weeks and is said to be the world’s biggest pilot of its kind.

Modi, who arrived here on Tuesday from Berlin on the second leg of his visit to three European nations, met Jakobsdottir on the sidelines o...

The United States issued its first "X" passport last year to Dana Zzyym, who is non-binary and intersex - born with atypical sex characteri...

Gender gap was measured across four key pillars -- economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment, and health and surv...

The economic opportunity gap -- based on participation, pay and advancement in the workforce -- remains the area that’ll take the longest t...

The global backsliding reflects a general slowing of progress in the world’s larger economies.

Iceland ranks first on the World Economic Forum's 2015 Global Gender Gap Index.

In this latest edition, the report finds that progress towards parity in the key economic pillar has slowed dramatically with the gap - whi...

Women feel the pinch more than their male counterparts: 70% of women believe there is equal pay for equal work at their employer compared w...

A blanket ban on all pornographic content is rarely considered effective because of the plethora of workarounds available.

India’s poor performance was largely on account of deterioration in economic participation and opportunity, as well as educational attainme...

Women’s rights activists lost at the Rio+20 dialogue with the conference deciding to delete any reference to ‘reproductive rights’ of women...

In the overall ranking, the country has slipped from 98th rank in 2006 when the index included a total of 115 countries. No longer a gender...