There is no such thing as a society where everyone is equal. That is the key message of new research that challenges the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gender and generational balance - in countries, companies & couples. When Eleanor Roosevelt was photographed holding the newly ...

Inequality is nothing new, but it's also far from inevitable. That's the takeaway from a new study of more than 1,000 settlements around the world over the last 10,000 years. Archaeologists found that ...

The word “inequality” is everywhere in the media. It usually refers either to race, gender, rich vs. poor, or other differences between human beings. Absent from the public debate is the biggest ...

have instead pointed to the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) as the breeding ground for these ideas and institutions. The revolution took place during the same period as the American and French ...

Author and columnist Nicholas Kristof, the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, spoke on human rights and global inequalities Sunday. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Nicholas Kristof spoke ...

The top 1 % of USA citizens control nearly 35% of the country's wealth and 22% of American children live in poverty. President Obama calls income inequality a defining issue and Mitt Romney tells us ...

(Washington, DC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should rethink the conditions it is placing on its loans in the Covid-19 era, 504 organizations including Human Rights Watch said in a ...

As Congress returns to Washington, there is a lot on its plate, but the biggest issue of all is how to proceed on a $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill. The margins are narrow: No Republican in ...