Across West Africa, women leaders and legislators are intensifying calls for ECOWAS to enforce laws mandating gender quotas ...

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) reports that more than half of the countries of the world have enacted gender quotas to increase women’s participation in ...

An organisation that is required by national law to have significant female representation on its board of directors sees higher diversity and skills than those in countries that simply advise on ...

Update, Oct. 18, 2022: The European Council on Oct. 17 gave its final approval to European Union rules designed to promote more balanced gender representation on the boards of listed companies. The ...

The Albanese government introduced gender quotas for government lawyers in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack, raising ...

Nearly every day, an article pops up on Twitter stating, “We need more women to become [fill in the blank].” From engineers to CEOs, writers to philosophers, women are told there is such-and-such a ...

Americans are deeply divided about the use of quotas in hiring and education, but quotas are used in many countries to assure a balance of power between men and women in legislative bodies. New ...

The federal government quietly made changes to gender quotas the day after the Bondi massacre. Under the amendments flagged ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. University of California regents banned the ...

Only 23 women have ever won Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics and chemistry. The Nobel Prize Foundation is facing pushback after saying it would not implement gender or ethnicity quotas in selecting ...