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With gender parity in higher education slowly improving in sub-Saharan Africa, people may be realizing how female education disproportionately improves social welfare.

Women and men in Latin America are ready for women to lead -- in politics, in the workplace and in the classroom.

Roughly 20 years after their democratic transitions, female leaders in East-Central Europe and the Balkans are gaining acceptance in public life and in public attitudes.

Hologic, a medical device company based in Marlborough, announced on Monday it is teaming up with Gallup, Inc., the Washington, D.C.-based analytics and advisory company, to develop the Hologic Women’s Health Index.

Le notti bianche (1957) We began this short week with a look at the enthusiastic response to Mark Harris’s Mike Nichols: A Life, and opening this month’s round on new and noteworthy books, we turn to a few more biographies. For a New York Times profile of literary biographer Hermione Lee, widely admired for her books on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, Charles McGrath spoke recently with novelist Julian Barnes who recalled the day that playwright and screenwriter To...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Genius Group’s Roger James Hamilton Shares Key Insight for Entrepreneurs in Authority Magazine ... Genius Group LtdFebruary 10, 2021 GMT SINGAPORE, Feb. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genius Group, a Singapore-based public limited company, today announced an interview with its founder and CEO, Roger James Hamilton, futurist and NY Times best-selling author, is featured in Authority Magazine. Autho...

What Gallup Is Learning About Polling the World in a Pandemic Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Gallup to rethink how we survey the world. Since 2005, we have conducted the majority of our World Poll surveys through face-to-face interviews -- which certainly wasnt safe or even possible to do in most places in 2020, and still isnt today. After concluding that we could safely switch from face-to-face interviews to computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) and still maintain the data qua...

Remarkably, Gallup doesn’t poll in China on this question. (Nor does Pew.) Notably, Trump is more disapproved-of in Europe than in any other part of the world. (Also, as Pew reported on 16 December 2020, “In Europe, more trust Putin than Trump.”) Those percentage-changes that we’ve just shown total to a decline, among all 60 countries, of 121 percentage-points (-121%), or, almost exactly, a -2% change from the 2019 findings that had been reported in Gallup’s “Rating World Leaders: 2...

Gallup surveys in Uganda conducted late last year show Ugandans' confidence in their national government was slipping amid the violent lead-up to the elections, and they expressed little confidence in the honesty of elections.

Merkel Set to Leave Office With Germany on Top of the World Approval is at a new high or ties previous records in 18 countries and areas WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares to leave office after nearly two decades in power, approval of Germanys leadership has never been higher in many countries. Across the 29 countries and areas that Gallup has surveyed so far in 2020, a median 62% approves of Germanys leadership, up slightly from a median of 59% for this same group ...