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With the aim of understanding inequality from the lens of opportunities, a new index measures the disproportionality of access across the country.

If the Union government thinks that the Global Hunger Index’s methodology is ‘unscientific’, here is another Index that shows a troubling picture for the state of ‘Access Inequality in Basic Amenities’ across India.

Spain advocates for building a feminist foreign policy and is taking the first steps to do so. But where do you begin?

Childcare is not just a practical problem March 12, 2019 I had been working in childcare for two years before I became a mom. As a founder of Jaleesa, an online platform to find babysitters and nannies in Lebanon, I have spoken to hundreds of parents—mainly moms—about the challenges of work and childcare. Parents have helped us to define a carer’s main role: to keep the kids safe, clean, and fed—and to support their development. But now I am a parent myself, I realize this is just the b...

There has been much criticism of the report recently published by the UK government’s Commission on Ethnic and Racial Disparities, chaired by Tony Sewell. Pundits have deplored its denial of institutional racism in Britain. A recent act of student resistance highlights how flawed the report is, and how racism affects schooling. In March, hundreds of pupils at the Pimlico Academy, a secondary school in west London, demonstrated against changes to the curriculum, the flying of the union jack o...

Oil is down slightly after a big rally to end last year. the three averages are higher this year. the dow up 2/3 of 1%. nasdaq up 3.5% in the first ten trading days of 2017. some of the wealthiest in the world are headed to europe in davos, switzerland. the meeting of the biggest names. the goal to come together and strengthen the global economy. each year, the unequality report is out. the eight richest men in the world own as much wealth as the bottom 3.6 billion people. these are like mark zu...