Tag: equality
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Women in Innovation: Gaining Ground, but Still Far Behind
Patents are a reasonable proxy for the relative contributions of the genders, and there’s a huge disparity still to be overcome World Intellectual Property Day fell on April 26 this year. The theme was “Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity,” so it’s an appropriate time to analyze the gender distribution of scientists and inventors…
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Bill & Melinda interview about Gates Foundation
Why don’t you give more in the United States? Melinda: Our foundation spends about $500 million a year in the United States, most of it on education. That’s a lot, but it is less than the roughly $4 billion we spend to help developing countries. We don’t compare different people’s suffering. All suffering is a…
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Melinda Gates: When money flows into the hands of women, everything changes
I have spent many hours talking with colleagues in international development about how to tear down the barriers that block women’s progress around the world. Now, we’re confronting the fact that every sector, including our own, has a serious problem with sexual harassment and violence. The norms that allow these abuses are the same ones…
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Supporting Women’s Rights in Troubled Times
For many community-level organizations led by women around the world, innovation is born of necessity. It is only by thinking creatively within systems—systems that have been designed to put them at a disadvantage—that they have been able to negotiate peace, access health care for LGBT populations, and ensure legal protections against rape and child marriage.…
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Canada can spend $8 billion on child care because it will pay for itself, IMF says
ABOVE: Ottawa is vowing to spend billions on childcare in this country…but on what, exactly? International Monetary Fund researchers say the federal government can afford to spend $8 billion annually to reduce the cost of child care spaces nationwide because the program would pay for itself. The proposal is more than 10 times what the…
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