Tag: Equality

A Step Towards Gender Equality – University of Oxford Admits More Women Than Men

April 10, 2018 GC4W University News navleen

As the University of Oxford offered more undergraduate places to British women than men for the first time last year, in its more than 1,000-year history, the world takes a step in the right direction towards gender equality. Of the total figure, female sixth-formers also outnumbered their male peers, according to data published by UCAS, the university and college admissions body.…

Wealth: The Right Way to Measure Equality for Women

September 28, 2017 GC4W Women in Leadership abby

On Aug. 26, 1920, women won the right to vote in the United States, a historic victory in the long march toward equal rights. Almost a century later, we still have to address the economic disparities women face in order to achieve equality in all aspects. Today, women play an outsized role in the economy. They make up half the…