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For the First Time in History, There is Full Gender Parity in the Top Leadership of the United Nations

Mark Leon Goldberg
January 17, 2018
There are forty-four most senior positions in the United Nations system, excluding the Secretary General himself.As of this week, twenty three are held by women.On Tuesday, Nahla Valji, the UN senior advisor for gender equality, announced on Twitter th...

For the first time, Women Outnumber Men in Senior Posts at a UN Agency

Alanna Shaikh, MPH
October 6, 2017
Something looked very different when the Director General of the World Health Organization introduced his senior leadership team this week.Nine out of the fourteen posts will be filled by women.In the announcement, the head of the World Health Program ...

Gender Norms Are Killing Men

Mark Leon Goldberg
July 31, 2013

How masculinity is making men live shorter lives than women

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