Inequality
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Guilt over household chores is 'harming working women's health'Worries over whether women are doing their ‘fair share’ has a clear impact on their health, according to a new analysis
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Home truths: when relationships and housework collide – The Story podcastLeah Green explores the struggles that arise across the globe when deciding who does which chores
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When will men live as long as women? By 2032, say expertsWomen in developed countries have historically outlived men. But the life expectancy gender gap is closing
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The trauma trap: what's causing inequalities in emergency care?As US studies reveal worrying disparities in trauma treatment based on patient ethnicity, one surgeon urges more research into inequalities in UK emergency care
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‘It put an end to my childhood’: the hidden scandal of US child marriageIn half of US states, there is no legal minimum age for marriage; a 40-year-old man can, in theory, marry a five-year-old girl. We meet the former child brides campaigning for change
Pictures and video
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'Corbyn has interrupted regular programming': Owen Jones talks to the Scottish rapper Loki
Darren McGarvey tells the Guardian columnist he has enjoyed Jeremy Corbyn shaking up politics in the UK
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Aboard 'the beast': migrants' daring train ride through Mexico – in picturesVeronica G Cardenas photographed life on the freight train where Central Americans band together to make the brutal 20-day journey through Mexico
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Forget the fence: these are the real markers of the US-Mexico border – in picturesThe 276 monuments marking the US-Mexico border were erected in 1848. David Taylor, an Arizona-based artist and professor, photographed them all
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Occupation Hope: the DIY district ruled by women – in picturesThey’ve survived single parenthood, housing shortages and a devastating fire to build what they have today: Ocupação Esperança, a space in São Paulo where women are in charge and the poor are protected
Income inequality
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'Shocking' disparity in pension income revealed by latest HMRC dataPensioners in one central London local authority receive three times as much as those in Stoke
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How socioeconomic disadvantage varies area-by-area in AustraliaNew data from the 2016 census shows the relative socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage for every region
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Taxing wealth is only part of the solution to growing inequalityLetters: Jonathan Bartley, John Nickson and Lindy Hardcastle respond to Owen Jones’ call for a wealth tax
Comment
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By axing early years help, we give our children a mountain to climbSure Start was a huge success in improving the life chances of vulnerable youngsters. But these gains are now threatened as its children’s centres continue to close
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Nicola Jennings on Theresa May's glass ceiling – cartoonThe UK’s prime minister has put narrowing the gender pay gap close to the centre of her domestic policy agenda
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Age inequality
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Baby boomers had it tough: even sex was scarceLetters: Most of us grew up without central heating, writes Margaret Davis, so do our relatively deprived youths give us any rights to a moderately comfortable old age? Plus letters from Pam Lunn and Neil Walsh
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Generational battle lines harden over pensionsThinktank warns policymakers are making the young subsidise the old when generation rent can least afford it
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Young people warned: economic focus on short-term growth is failing youDavos report calls on governments to focus on greater ‘inclusion’ as gap between old and young widens
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‘We rebel against the system’: inside Soweto’s thriving punk sceneUnemployment is high in the Johannesburg township, but the band TCIYF are a surprising, positive influence for disenfranchised young people
'Dehumanising, impenetrable, frustrating': the grim reality of job hunting in the age of AI