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From court to community: a cost–benefit evaluation of a community sports programme for Arab women in Israel's multiethnic context [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Global Women's Health
BackgroundPhysical activity (PA) is a key determinant of women's physical, mental, and social well-being, yet participation in structured sports remains limited due to sociocultural norms, caregiving roles, and accessibility barriers.
Limor Dina Gonen   +4 more
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Economic gender gap: Which countries are falling behind? [PDF]

open access: yesPanoeconomicus, 2021
Economic parity continues to be one of the main challenges to achieving gender equality worldwide, even though disparities between countries in the economic gender gap are frequently neglected.
Medina-Claros Samuel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Explaining recently arrived refugees' labor market participation: The role of policy characteristics among Syrians in the Netherlands

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023
Various studies have indicated the disadvantaged positions of refugees on the labor market and studied various characteristics explaining this. Yet, little is known about the impact of settlement policy characteristics on recent arrivals' labor market ...
Roxy Elisabeth Christina Damen   +3 more
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Gender Equality: Approaches and Strategies in University Context

open access: yesПроблеми на постмодерността, 2021
This article is aimed at presenting a series of activities and systematic efforts that have found a place in the development of a Plan for Gender Equality in Research and academia. This endeavor is part of SPEAR project "Supporting and Implementing Plans
Valentina Milenkova
doaj   +1 more source

Inequality of Opportunities: The Role of the Spatial Factor [PDF]

open access: yesProstranstvennaâ Èkonomika, 2021
The concept of equal opportunities was shaped on the back of western social philosophy at the end of the XX century as a result of the development of egalitarian theory of social justice.
Zulfiya Fanurovna Ibragimova   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participation, equality of opportunity and returns to tertiary education in contemporary Europe [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Societies, 2014
ABSTRACT The aim of the paper is to investigate the consequences of the expansion of higher education on two goals of the education system, namely promoting equity of educational opportunities and providing credentials that facilitate the matching of labour supply and demand.
F. Bernardi, G. Ballarino
openaire   +3 more sources

Does Education Background Affect Digital Equal Opportunity and the Political Participation of Sustainable Digital Citizens? A Taiwan Case [PDF]

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
The purpose of this article is to examine the level of digital equity and political participation in Taiwan. In this study, we argue that high digital literacy and active civic participation facilitate the formation of sustainable digital citizenship. We review the development of digital education policy in Taiwan since the 1990s.
Chia-Hui Chen   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Las experiencias de participación de las personas LGBTI en los Consejos Territoriales de Paz, Reconciliación y Convivencia en el marco del Acuerdo Final de Paz en Colombia

open access: yesRevista de Estudios Sociales, 2023
Colombia’s Final Peace Agreement is considered innovative worldwide, as it introduces the principle of gender equality for its implementation. Its signing has provided an opportunity for LGBTI organizations to advocate for an inclusive and affirmative ...
Miyerlandy Cabanzo Valencia   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The British Armed Services and the Participation of Minority Ethnic Communities: From Equal Opportunities to Diversity? [PDF]

open access: yesThe Sociological Review, 2001
This paper examines the commitments enshrined in the Strategic Defence Review White Paper to make the armed forces more genuinely representative of the British population, notably with respect to ethnicity. It identifies some conceptual problems associated with the way in which those commitments are presented and with the arguments usually deployed in
Dandeker, C, Mason, D
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Investigating and Evaluating Urban Development Plans Based on Spatial Justice Approach (Case Study: FarahzadReorganization Plan) [PDF]

open access: yesبرنامه‌ریزی توسعه شهری و منطقه‌ای, 2019
Investigating and evaluating development plans based on theories of spatial justice is one of the topics that has been neglected in urban planning in Iran.
Aam Afsharnia   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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