Inequality
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Vacancies for doctors, nurses, midwives and therapists at highest level for three years
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Worries over whether women are doing their ‘fair share’ has a clear impact on their health, according to a new analysis -
Leah Green explores the struggles that arise across the globe when deciding who does which chores
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Women in developed countries have historically outlived men. But the life expectancy gender gap is closing -
As US studies reveal worrying disparities in trauma treatment based on patient ethnicity, one surgeon urges more research into inequalities in UK emergency care
Pictures & video
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In 1994, the award-winning Scottish photographer Margaret Mitchell made Family – a set of striking images of her sister’s children at home in Stirling. Two decades later, after her sister’s death, Mitchell returned to photograph their own children to make a sequel, In This Place -
Crowds gathered in the capital, Santiago, set up fiery barricades and clashed with riot police in protest against rising subway fares and to demand better education, healthcare and wages -
Scores of commuters in the Philippine capital are propelled to their destinations daily by men with metal carts -
Speaking at the Obama Foundation in Johnannesburg, the former US president has called for more women to enter politics and expressed dismay at abusive male leaders
Income inequality
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Kristalina Georgieva calls for rethink of economic policies to better help those left behind -
Recently a crowd of protesters disrupted a speech by Elizabeth Warren. The activists might have seemed grassroots, but they weren’t -
Social policy experts call for educational, tax and pay reforms to beat economic slide
Opinion
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Nations and regions must join forces to ensure a healthy future for the union
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The values I hold are our true values. I want to win the next election and establish a new, fairer economic model, says Labour leadership contender Keir Starmer -
Age inequality
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Most people in their 60s and 70s have led a charmed life. Now it’s time to listen to our children’s generation -
Wealthy older people aren’t evil, they just need to be talked into paying their dues
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Letters: Readers respond to Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s article warning young voters against casting their ballot for the Liberal Democrats -
Heiress and film-maker Abigail Disney has told her fellow baby boomers to sit down, shut up and move on. She’s not the only one
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