Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
Since Thomas Piketty’s best-selling book Capital took the world by storm in 2014, the issue of inequality – and the wide range of problems it causes – has been top of the political agenda...
It’s often said that when an event takes place outside of the West – a terrorist attack in Turkey, or a bombing in Lebanon – it gets less media attention. The world just doesn’t seem to c...
Equal pay for equal work. It sounds so reasonable, it’s hard to believe that in 2016, we’re still talking about the gender pay gap. And yet the fact remains that there is no country in th...
How do you make it in a man’s world? If there’s one person who should know, it’s Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund. Before leading one of the world’s most pow...
“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable,” former US President John F. Kennedy told the United Nations. It was 1961, th...
It might be over 50 years since the US passed the Equal Pay Act, but women still get paid less than men – in many cases for doing the same work. And even if you’re a World-Cup winning ath...
A controversial law in North Carolina that places strict limits on the protection granted to the LGBT community has been declared a “national embarrassment” by US policy-makers. And now t...
If you were asked to name a famous inventor, who would pop into your head? Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell? Formidable men who gave ...
Five years after the start of civil war in Syria, the facts and figures continue to shock: 13.5 million people in the war-torn country need humanitarian assistance, 4.6 million Syrians ar...
Not all weddings have a happily ever after. For 15 million girls a year – some as young as eight or nine – their wedding day won’t be a joyous event. It will signify the end of their chil...
Women in Saudi Arabia still can’t drive a car. But last month, three female pilots from Royal Brunei Airlines landed a plane in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The historic flight was the airli...
Update: The number of refugees who have fled South Sudan for Uganda has now reached 1 million, according to the UN.
Emma Watson has never hidden her passion for women’s rights: not only is she a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, she’s also set up a feminist book club and recently announced she was taking a...
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Some inventions are an immediate hit. When Apple released the iPhone in 2007, customers lined up outside stores, desperate to get their hands on what the media called the Jesus phone, a r...
