gender gap

Could helping boys be the key to closing the STEM gap?

Peter Shawn Taylor: The gender gap in science and technology graduates is a persistent problem. New research suggests we may be approaching it all wrong.

One way to close the pay gap: More women-owned businesses

Opinion: Women have a harder time getting business leadership roles, and they’re less likely to ask for money along the way. Here’s what can be done

For women of colour, there’s a gap within the pay gap

Opinion: Filter the wage-gap numbers on the basis of race, and far greater wage discrepancies start to appear

How engineers are engineering change on the gender gap

Opinion: Levelling the gender gap is important as a point of principle—as well as for the economy. And change is starting to happen in engineering.

Don’t blame Gwyneth Paltrow, blame the medical status quo

The “wellness” industry boom has stirred much debate, but Anne Kingston argues that the real problem to address is the ongoing medical gender gap that is leaving women frustrated.

Advancing women’s equality could mean a windfall for all Canadians

Addressing Canada’s largest gender gaps could be worth $150 billion to Canada’s GDP by 2026. Here’s how it could happen.

A gender gap that’s a matter of life and death

Canadian men die earlier than women, and it’s not biological. What’s behind this deadly gap, and why doesn’t anyone seem to care?

How to fix venture capital’s gender disparity problem

VC firms employ very few women—in senior roles or anywhere else—and it hurts the whole sector

Good news … bad news

Blacklists, short-haul flights, pay gaps and animals in the Gospels

On women avoiding men, men becoming childish and other consequences of female power

The woman who coined the ‘End of Men’

Hanna Rosin says women are avoiding men, and men are becoming childish

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Medicine’s deadly gender gap

New research on pain, medical devices and even PMS reveals big holes in our knowledge of the female body.