Katsumi Nishimura, a 76-year-old who lives in Osaka Prefecture, boarded a plane at Kansai International Airport on Oct. 14 bound for Geneva, Switzerland. For the first time in eight years, she was off ...

Japan has passed legislation and taken other measures to make society more equal. However, a recent survey by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation shows that discriminatory practices linger in ...

Nearly 33 percent of job seekers feel discriminated against because of their gender while more than 40 percent believe their education background unfairly eliminates them from the competition, a ...

Donald Trump was re-elected president on a wave of attacks against women and transgender people. Anti-transgender politicians spent more than $215 million on ads scapegoating trans people and ...

In China, gender equality is not a slogan; it is a national policy that guarantees the equal rights of men and women, and promotes women's all-round development. The policy recognizes four key ...

Laura Doering receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Institute for Gender and the Economy at Rotman, and the Lee-Chin Institute. András Tilcsik has ...

A female plaintiff speaks at a press conference after the Tokyo District Court ruled that rent allowances limited to career-track employees constituted "indirect discrimination" prohibited by the ...

The UGC’s 2026 anti-discrimination guidelines mandate Equal Opportunity Centres, set timelines for complaints, and expand ...

Return-to-office mandates are spreading across North America, with Canada’s major banks, the Ontario government, Amazon and Facebook calling employees back into the office. These moves reverse the ...