Professor Araki's new paper (co-authored with Francisco Olivos) "Gender Inequality, Well-being, and Ill-being: A Macro Analysis of Human and Societal Flourishing" has been published in Social Science & Medicine (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117670). This article investigates how mitigating different dimensions of gender inequality longitudinally affects well-being of the collective. Using their originally constructed macro-level panel dataset for 137 countries over 15 years, Profs Araki and Olivos show that more gender equality, especially in the economic domain, positively predicts both average life satisfaction and the proportion of thriving people, while it is negatively linked to the risk of facing ill-being for both women and men. Based on the results, they argue that mitigating gender gaps potentially helps enhance well-being among individuals and societies rather than exacerbating tradeoffs between gender groups, arguably by ensuring women’s opportunities and liberating men from social norms. Profs Araki and Olivos conclude that gender equality plays an important role in achieving human and societal flourishing.