More women get university places, more women get places in top universities, more women than men on professional courses such as medicine and law, women getting better qualifications than men. Someone remind me why we need a Minister for Women but no Minister for Men. Petition the PM: create a Minister for Men and balance the gender

To celebrate Women's Day, EurActiv asked five prominent women to set out their visions for the future of the European Union. Starting with Dalia Grybauskaitė, president of Lithuania, these successful professionals are symbols of the economic, political and social achievements of Europe's women.  

A survey of a thousand men and women in London reveals that most women asked believe that the victim of rape is sometimes at least partly to blame. Almost three-quarters of women said if a rape victim got into bed with the assailant before an attack they should accept some responsibility. One-third blamed victims who had dressed

As the European Commission pushes for greater gender balance in its own ranks, the EurActiv network takes a look at how women across Europe fare in the business world.

Yes, women take longer, yes, women go more often. Thus for an equal number of men and women at a venue there should be 2 female stations for one male. The British Toilet Association is campaigning – too quietly, perhaps – for public facilities to uphold a 2:1 ratio of women’s to men’s loos. They haven’t

Today we have published Women and Recession, a report considering the impacts that this downturn will have for women in formal employment. While we are not arguing that women will be affected more than men we highlight that women will be hit more by this downturn than previous recessions, and that...

Tax is gendered since men pay more tax than women because they earn more and since women receive more public services and benefits from the state because they contribute more unpaid care-work than men. Public services, such as health, are disproportionately used by women, employ women, and are politically supported by

More than 500 women will meet at Labour Women’s Conference to discuss what women want and to demand action from the Government to stop women bearing the brunt of government cuts. Labour women are coming together at a crucial time to discuss the fact that women are being hit twice as hard as men by the tax and welfare changes being brought in by this Government. Changes to women’s pensi...

Peter Hitchens writes about a cloud no bigger than a man's hand on the horizon, namely the gender imbalance in China. By 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women in the breeding-age section of the population. Hitchens observes: But men without women are altogether more troublesome than women without men, especially when they are young. All kinds of speculation is now seething about ...

Women as a group already own less than men and earn less than men; Umm, no, actually, they don’t “own” less than men. Longer female lifespans, inheritance between married couples, means that actually ownership, wealth, is slightly skewed towards women rather than men.