Around the world women spend far more time on unpaid work—cooking, cleaning, caring for their family—than men, who spend more time in paid labor. Though essential for societies to operate effectively, this unpaid work is valued far less than paid work.

A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that the extreme differences in the quality of schools attended by black and white students during the “Jim Crow” era of the 1940s catalyzed a large racial wage gap that still has not been closed in the contemporary US labor market.

The rate of CEO compensation has risen alarmingly quickly in recent years. According to the High Pay Centre, CEOs at major British companies earned roughly 15 times the average employee salary in 1980. 

The UK government’s plan to double hours of free childcare is threatened by nursery funding shortfalls, warns the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).

John McDonnell, shadow finance minister, announced during a talk at the London School of Economics on Tuesday night that the Labour Party would not rule out unconditional pay for all members of society.

The cost of raising a child in the UK has risen to over £230,000, more than the cost of an average house, according to analysis by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) and insurance firm Liverpool Victoria.

Being young and female presents a “double challenge” to finding a decent job in many developing countries, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO).