Nearly half of the senior roles in Hong Kong’s banking sector are held by women, as highlighted in a recent study. This significant representation, amounting to 45 percent, is attributed to advancements in societal, organizational, and regulatory fronts.…
UK fashion retailer Primark has introduced gender-neutral changing rooms in two stores, prompting both criticism and support from online observers. The move comes a year after Topshop began integrating its changing rooms. The response to Primark’s…
Fashion giant H&M has teamed up with Swedish streetwear brand Eytys to launch a gender neutral fashion collection that will go on sale in selected stores worldwide on January 24. The new unisex collection, which is being designed in collaboration with H&M,…
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao is in Bloomberg’s list of 50 people who’ve been business game changers in 2018. Thao is the first Vietnamese citizen to be named in the Bloomberg list, which highlights key players in all fields, from finance to fashion, media to…
French luxury goods giant Kering has received a prize for its high level of female representation on its board. The company has made gender equality one of its corporate priority and has, this week, been chosen to receive the “Most Feminine Board of…
The BBC’s China Editor Carrie Gracie has quit her post in Beijing to fight for her right to pay equality with male peers, posting an attack on what she called the “secretive and illegal BBC pay culture”. Gracie’s revolt is part of the fallout from pay…
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