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No full-time return to the office for over a million
Almost all of 50 of the UK’s biggest employers questioned by the BBC have said they do not plan to bring staff back to the office full-time.
These are the 10 best countries to be a woman
Despite these successes, COVID-19 has rolled back gender equality around the world
The Global Gender Gap Will Take an Extra 36 Years to Close After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Report Finds
The time it will take for the gender gap to close grew by 36 years in the space of just 12 months, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report.
Grand National: Rachael Blackmore will surely not be the last woman to ride into the winner’s enclosure
Some 44 years after Charlotte Brew was the National’s first woman jockey, Rachael Blackmore rode over the line in first place.
Woman appointed to referee English Football League game for first time ever
Rebecca Welch said she never would have thought she would be refereeing an EFL game when she started out 11 years ago.
We can stop to take pride on International Women’s Day – but only for a moment
On the long climb, stop and catch your breath on International Women’s Day. Look back in anger – but with pride, too. Dear granddaughters, let me recount women’s lives when I started work in 1968. To you, it’s the same ancient history the suffragettes were to me.