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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The younger generation has to disown the older one in order to break away from it. Yet boomers built the world we live in today, for worse but also for better
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Editorial: Labour can outflank the Tories by rethinking the firm and who controls its surplus rather than just nationalising it -
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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