The numbers on the map correspond to each country’s Gender Inequality Index (GII), a figure derived from a number of factors, including the maternal mortality rate, the number of seats women ...

To see gender clearly, we need the concept of mindedness, which refers to animal mental and behavioral patterns. There are clear gendered patterns of mental behavior in primates.

We often think about gender as the biological differences between men and women. It is true that the path to gender development begins at conception. Each cell in our body has 46 chromosomes.

Gender is learned; the idea of a man or a woman is not biologically inherent but the result of what our culture deems appropriate.

It is nearly 50 years since ‘Towards Equality’ (1974), the report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India, set up by the Government of India to assess ...

"The Map will reveal real, everyday experiences of gender inequality that we may not always be aware of," Nicole Kalms, director of Monash University's XYX Lab, added in a statement.

A new brain-imaging study of young adolescents has shown that sex and gender map onto different brain networks. The findings, published on Friday in Science Advances, demonstrate the importance of ...

Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have the worst gender equality of all U.S. states, with Massachusetts, California and Maine being the best.