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If women lose their job, the risk of long-term unemployment is markedly higher than for men. It affects mothers particularly severely as they are twice as prone to long-term unemployment compared to fathers, a new study concludes. This new knowledge should lead to initiatives that will help the most marginalised groups gain employment again, according to Anne Sophie Lassen, Postdoc at Copenhagen Business School and one of the researchers behind the study.

Economic markets will be more restricted, and we are going to be more guarded with our strategies, says CBS professor.

Research shows that family businesses are only passed on to a daughter one out of five times. If the current trend continues then it will take up to 150 years before daughters are given the keys just as often as sons.

Research Dissemination Prize: Megan Tobias Neely has won the DSEB Research Dissemination Prize for effectively sharing insights on inequality on wall street with the wider public.