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Promoting Gender Equality: A Systematic Review of Interventions

Social justice research, 2022
More than four decades have passed since the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted.
Michaela Guthridge, M. Kirkman, Tania Penovic, M. Giummarra   +3 more
semanticscholar   +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

The 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, Elizabeth G Katz, PhD, Gary L Darmstadt, MD   +2 more
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Gender equality, education, economic growth and religious tensions nexus in developing countries: A spatial analysis approach

Heliyon, 2022
Gender inequality is a more pronounced phenomenon in developing countries, which may be rooted in poor governance, and inadequate social and religious institutions.
A. Iqbal, Shafiqul Hassan, Haider Mahmood, Muhammad Tanveer   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Synergies and trade-offs between climate change adaptation options and gender equality: a review of the global literature

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022
Climate change impacts are being felt across sectors in all regions of the world, and adaptation projects are being implemented to reduce climate risks and existing vulnerabilities. Climate adaptation actions also have significant synergies and tradeoffs
J. Roy, A. Prakash, Shreya Some, C. Singh, R. Bezner Kerr, M. Caretta, C. Conde, M. Ferre, C. Schuster-Wallace, Maria Cristina Tirado-von der Pahlen, E. Totin, S. Vij, Emily Baker, G. Dean, E. Hillenbrand, Alison Irvine, F. Islam, Katriona McGlade, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Federica Ravera, A. Segnon, D. Solomon, Indrakshi Tandon   +22 more
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Public Attention to Gender Equality and Board Gender Diversity

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2022
We document that heightened public attention to gender equality is associated with an increase in board gender diversity. Improvements in diversity are more pronounced in firms with a corporate culture that is already sympathetic to gender equality. When
Mariassunta Giannetti, Tracy Yue Wang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Covid-19, Flexible Working, and Implications for Gender Equality in the United Kingdom

, 2021
We examine the role flexible working has for gender equality during the pandemic, focusing on arrangements that give workers control over when and where they work.
Heejung Chung, Holly Birkett, S. Forbes, Hyojin Seo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Profiles of subjective health among people living alone: a latent class analysis

BMC 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, Nina Tamminen, Tuija Martelin, Katariina Mankinen, Pia Solin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender equality

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

Revija 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, Višnja Ljubičić, Lidija Bojić-Ćaćić   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

International 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, Sarah Harrison, Jenipher Musoke   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source