The Gender Pay Gap : A lacuna in the leadership equality
Introduction The gender pay gap is one of the most persistent issue in the gender equality. The unequal compensation between men and women for the equal work creates the inequality. Even after decades of struggle and development , women across…
Discrimination and bias in law
Law is an body which can both challenge and perpetuate the systemic discrimination in a society. On one hand existing laws unintentionally reinforce biasedness which leads to unequal outcomes for certain groups, communities or people and on the other hand…
Corporate Quotas: Towards Better Pay and Participation?
Introduction The UN Secretary-General called gender gap the ‘greatest human rights challenge the world faces.’ To battle this yawning gap, gender-based quotas, also known as corporate quotas have been adopted in several nations. This was first mandated as a testing…
The Environmental Burden of Social and Economic Inequalities
Netflix’s new series “Toxic Town” by Minkie Spiro is a stark reminder of the prices that ordinary citizens pay due to the negligence of authorities and private corporations and their reluctance to incorporate essential environmental safety standards in their operations,…
