A narrow definition such as income inequality does not capture the vast disparities in power that define our society.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, the law professor at Columbia and UCLA who coined the term intersectionality to describe the way people’s social identities can overlap, tells TIME about the politicization of her ...

Background: Despite the dual objectives of many health care systems of improving total health and reducing health inequality, trial designs seem to ignore the assessment of inequality effects. Our ...

This paper identifies five key issues that are important for the continued efforts to tackle gender inequality: (i) gender inequality needs to be distinguished from gender gaps. Not all gender gaps ...

Socioeconomic gradients in adiposity were not present during childhood for previous generations, but have emerged in contemporary children. It is unknown whether this translates to socioeconomic ...