What to Know About Gender Bias in Healthcare By Zawn Villines Medically Reviewed By Francis Kuehnle, MSN, RN-BC Gender bias in healthcare is widespread. Patients, doctors, researchers, and administrators can all hold biased views about gender. These views affect how the healthcare system works and have a serious impact on health outcomes. Gender bias is a preference for one gender…
What Changed Since The NCAA Women’s Weight-Room Uproar? By Maggie Ryan One of the biggest stories from the 2021 women’s NCAA basketball tournament began with a TikTok and might end — possibly, hopefully — with lasting change. You might remember Oregon Ducks forward Sedona Prince’s video, which exposed the stark differences in the weight roomsavailable to men (a full-size gym) and women (a…
US Soccer Teams Agree To Historic Equal Pay Deals By Henry Bushnell The U.S. Soccer Federation and its men’s and women’s national teams agreed to side-by-side collective bargaining agreements that will “achieve equal pay” and vindicate the women in their years-long battle with the federation over inequities. The two deals, which run through 2028, will pay men’s and women’s players on “identical” terms for…
Why We Need to Nurture Entrepreneurship in Young Girls Existing programs that promote and support women’s entrepreneurship help address the inequality that currently exists, but they don’t reach women early enough. By Sylvia Acevedo Last month, women on college campuses around the world gathered for Women Entrepreneurship Week, an annual event that brings budding female entrepreneurs together with female startup founders…
Things I’ve Learned From Being a Woman in A Male-Dominated Industry By Morgan Browne Morgan Browne is the President and Co-Founder of Oakwyn Realty, one of Vancouver’s fastest-growing brokerage firms. Why do women place a cap on their success? Is it by our own doing, or is it a product of the social constraints and gender biases of male-dominated industries? When…
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Tapping Into Potential of NCAA Women’s Basketball For the NCAA, Building the Business of Women’s Sports Starts With Basketball By David Berri Three days before the tipoff of the 2021 National Collegiate Athletic Association Women’s Basketball Tournament, University of Oregon star Sedona Prince posted a video on TikTok showing that the weight rooms provided to the men’s and women’s players in their…
Five Young Women on the Forefront of Climate Action Across Europe and Central Asia Women and girls are powerful leaders and change-makers for climate adaptation and mitigation and must be included in the design and implementation of climate action. Without their leadership, knowledge and participation in climate responses today, it is unlikely that solutions for a sustainable planet and gender-equal…
How Nneka Ogwumike Is Championing Gender Equality On And Off The Court By Kenneth J. Williams Jr. For(bes) The Culture Since being drafted number one overall in the 2012 WNBA Draft, Nneka Ogwumike has been making waves as an advocate for gender equality in sports. Ogwumike, the president of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) and player for the Los…
First Lady Of Iceland Eliza Reid Advocates For Gender Equality By Cheryl Robinson Around the world, gender equality is a trending topic. Although women and girls make up half the population, the ongoing battle for women’s rights has continued for centuries. In 1945, the United Nations Charter made equality between men and women a fundamental principle to help advance gender equality. Since…
