For decades, legendary photographer Platon has been taking portraits of some of the world’s most prominent people. He recently started filming his photo shoots in which he gets his subject talking in ...

Judy Purser told a story about how she and other girls had to prove they had showered after high school gym class. It was intended to a funny memory, and on one level it was, except it wasn’t. And it ...

A new study has revealed the U.S. states where it is much harder to be a woman than a man. Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have the greatest level of gender inequality, according to a new paper in ...

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Gender inequality is accelerating young Japanese women's flight from rural areas to the cities, further depressing the country's already low birthrate. Japan has more elderly adults than any major ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Crises often require economic consolidations that may unevenly affect different segments of the population. Some crisis ...