The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

But it's bad news for workplaces where salary transparency unveils inequality

With more than 700 pieces from 26 different institutions in 11 countries, ‘First Kings of Europe’ details humanity’s journey from equality to hierarchy.

Almost half of Australians incorrectly believe women and men equally commit domestic violence according to a major survey which shows "extremely troubling" community attitudes towards violence against women.

Providing a safety net from ‘cradle to grave’ is already too late. Time to revive an old Labour policy that can make things fairer, says Mary Reader of the London School of Economics

For the first time since poverty, lack of opportunity and economic inequality caused favelas to mushroom across many of the nation’s cities, Brazil’s biggest favela isn’t in Rio de Janeiro

Benefits policies are simply aggravating the inequalities that shape British lives

Russia's middle class will shrink as social inequality grows over coming years, an economic study conducted by Russian experts suggested, as sanctions against Moscow and limited growth potential scupper development prospects.

Although the campaign season for Thailand's much-anticipated election has only just begun, populism has already become the runaway winner. All of the contesting parties have come up with a plethora of populist pledges to woo voters. That populism has triumphed in Thai politics bears multiple longer-term implications.

The UK’s first national lockdown was introduced on 23 March 2020 in an attempt to reduce the spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus. 

This Morning host Alison Hammond has been recognised for her work highlighting racism, inequality and injustice as she won the Media Campion in the Public Eye gong at the Burberry British Diversity Awards

A Pulitzer-winning sociologist argues that the United States’s gross inequality is no accident