Our index includes child-care costs and the amount of paid maternity and paternity leave available to new parents. Measured at “full-rate equivalent” (ie, how much time off mothers can take at full ...

The recent exodus of prominent female leaders from the FTSE 100 (Debra Crew at Diageo, Emma Walmsley at GSK and Liv Garfield ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought an incalculable human toll, both in lives lost and livelihoods destroyed. This crisis has driven millions of women out of the workforce, with Black and Latina women ...

Marilyn Loden, an advocate for workplace equality who coined the phrase “glass ceiling,” has died at the age 76, leaving behind a feminist legacy that inspired generations of women. Loden first said ...

When it comes to gender equality, plenty of progress has been made over the past few decades. Painfully serious work to still needs to be done, however, including establishing the right for all people ...

At the Democratic National Convention in August, Hillary Clinton alluded once again to that famed glass ceiling. You know, the one she hoped to triumphantly shatter through — pantsuit and all — during ...

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Over its decade of tracking women’s progress in the workforce, the Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index has registered very little improvement, as gendered structural barriers endure. Protesters march to ...