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Gender equality

Encyclopedia of Law and Development, 2021
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.
Joanna Botha, Glancina Mokone
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United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women—UN Women

The Europa Directory of International Organizations 2021, 2021
UN Women was established by GA Resolution 64/289, and became operational on the 1st of January 2011. Its vision is of a world where women and men have equal opportunities and capacities, where women are empowered and where principles of gender equality ...
H. Canton
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Gender Equality

2020
The study of descriptive representation is key in projects that aim to understand and further gender equality. But what does it mean to achieve gender equality in descriptive representation? And how can descriptive equality be measured and understood?
Celis, Karen, Erzeel, Silvia
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Women, Gender equality and COVID-19

Gender in Management, 2020
Purpose This paper aims to review the existing literature on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender and work roles to determine whether the pandemic has undermined the status, pay and advancement of women or has provided opportunities for ...
Linda L. Carli
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All that Glitters is Not Gold: Shrinking and Bending Gender Equality in Rankings and Nation Branding

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2020
After the financial crisis of 2008, a time of reputation rebuilding began in Iceland. Women had been absent in the process leading up to the crisis and a strong discourse emerged calling for women to restore the country and blaming the crisis on the male
Þorgerður J. Einarsdóttir
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Gender Equality and Gendered Homicides

Homicide Studies, 2002
An important insight from the feminist literature is that a particular form of inequality—gender inequality—is likely to be associated with a distinctive type of violence—gendered violence. Previous research has demonstrated that rates of a quintessential gendered crime, rape, are related to the relative status of men and women.
Steven F. Messner, Rachel Bridges Whaley
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Is There a Gender-Equality Paradox in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)? Commentary on the Study by Stoet and Geary (2018)

Psychology Science, 2020
In the corrected version of their 2018 article, Stoet and Geary (Corrigendum issued 2019) responded to our identification of a mismatch between their numbers for women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with tertiary degrees and the ...
S. Richardson, Meredith Reiches, Joe Bruch, M. Boulicault, Nicole E. Noll, Heather Shattuck-Heidorn   +5 more
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Counteracting Challenges to Gender Equality in the Era of Anti-Gender Campaigns: Competing Gender Knowledges and Affective Solidarity

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 2020
:This article focuses on the epistemic strategies employed by ultraconservative movements to oppose women's reproductive rights and the ways in which the women's movement counteracts these efforts.
Elżbieta Korolczuk
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Gender equality

Nursing Management, 2017
Although women make up 77% of the healthcare workforce, gender inequality remains a problem in the NHS, and women continue to be under-represented at senior levels. For example, only 37% of the members of clinical commissioning group governing bodies are women.
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