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Simpson's gender-equality paradox. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Several cross-country examinations have found larger gender differences in Western countries. More recently, it has been argued, from an evolutionary standpoint, that equality may paradoxically increase gender differences, because it provides more freedom for men and women to pursue innate preferences.
Berggren M, Bergh R.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Gender equality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Abstract This chapter considers different dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address the problem. The economic benefits of gender equality for growth and wealth are substantial. Despite progress being made, gender gaps still exist at every stage of life, including before birth, and ...
Raquel Fernández   +3 more
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Public leadership for gender equality: a framework and capacity development approach for gender transformative policy change

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Public leadership is essential in social change, and pivotal in transforming social and institutional norms related to gender inequality, going well beyond equal representation. It must embrace the potential for all public health leaders, of all
Alex Munive   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Criminal Penalties for LGBT in a Human Rights Perspective

open access: yesSemarang State University Undergraduate Law and Society Review, 2021
LGBT is essentially an unusual behavior of social aberrations. The cause of a person to be LGBT was due to several factors, genetic, hormonal, gender role discomfort, peer group interaction, social.
Ita Dwiyanti
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and the impact of COVID-19 on demand for and access to health care: analysis of data from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health, 2021
Background: Global health emergencies can impact men and women differently due to gender norms that affect exposures and care-seeking. Likewise, economic and social upheaval can affect men and women unequally.
Safa Abdalla, MD   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender Equality Index

open access: yes, 2021
The Gender Equality Index was developed at the European Institute for Gender Equality to monitor the progress in gender mainstreaming within EU policy areas. This chapter outlines the political, conceptual and technical background in its development.
Humbert, Anne Laure, Hubert, Agnè
openaire   +2 more sources

Gender equality

open access: yes
Report on progress of gender equality initiatives and additional measures to be proposed with a specific focus on the first communitywide ...
Ian Bond, Dick Leonard, Robert Taylor
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Profiles of subjective health among people living alone: a latent class analysis

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Living alone has increased globally and especially in Finland where 45% of all households are single occupancy. Epidemiological research has found that living alone a risk factor for a wide range of adversities related to quality of life but ...
Tytti P. Pasanen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

"Women's Sports is Not a Real Sports": Negative Stereotypes about Sportswomen and the Experience of Gender Inequality in Handball in Croatia

open access: yesRevija za Sociologiju, 2021
The main aim of the study was to determine how often young handball players encountered negative stereotypes towards sportswomen. In addition, we examined whether young sportswomen who were differentially exposed to those stereotypes differed in their ...
Zrinka Greblo Jurakić   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender intentional approaches to enhance health social enterprises in Africa: a qualitative study of constraints and strategies

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Health social enterprises are experimenting with community health worker (CHW) models that allow for various income-generating opportunities to motivate and incentivize CHWs.
Kevin McKague   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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