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Background: Despite a 2010 Kenyan constitutional amendment limiting members of elected public bodies to < two-thirds of the same gender, only 22 percent of the 12th Parliament members inaugurated in 2017 were women.
Emma Pair +6 more
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Basic Income Guarantee: the gender impact within households [PDF]
The potential of a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) to contribute to gender equality is a contested issue amongst feminist scholars. This article focuses on the nature of BIG as an individually- based payment to explore its potential for reducing gender ...
Cantillon, Sara, McLean, Caitlin
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The role of the Global Observatory in addressing Gender Based Violence in Sport+
Introduction: Gender-based violence, including violence against women and girls, in all their diversity, is a pervasive human rights abuse and a public health crisis of epidemic proportions that has garnered considerable attention in political dialogues
Hayley Truskewycz, Lombe Mwambwa
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Although data on livestock ownership are often collected at the household level, not all household members have the same rights over the livestock. In this paper, we investigate the gendered patterns of livestock ownership in smallholder households in ...
Marya Hillesland +3 more
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Gender Equality and Reproductive Decision Making [PDF]
In Evans, both the U.K. High Court and Court of Appeal upheld Howard Johnston’s right to refuse Natallie Evans access to the stored embryos which represented her only hope of having a child which was genetically her own.
Sheldon, Sally
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Resistance and backlash to gender equality
Resistance to efforts to advance gender equality is a common feature of social life, whether in workplaces and other organisations or elsewhere. In this article, we review the typical character, dynamics of and contexts for resistance to gender equality ...
Michael Flood +2 more
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Evidence-based policymaking and the wicked problem of SDG 5 Gender Equality
Evidence-based policymaking (EBP) contends that policy decisions are successful when informed by evidence. However, where policy problems are “wicked” (systemic, ambiguous, complex, and conflictual), politics trumps evidence and solutions are never first
Lorraine Eden, M. Wagstaff
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This study uses over 140 first-person narratives from adolescent Syrian girls and Syrian parents displaced to Lebanon and literature from the Education in Emergencies (EiE) field to examine the concept of the protective potential of education.
Stephanie Chow Garbern +4 more
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Gender Barriers to Immunization: A Synthesis of UNICEF’s Analyses to Advance Equity and Coverage
Background/objectives: Despite global efforts to improve childhood immunization rates, gender-related barriers continue to hinder equitable access to vaccines worldwide.
Cristián Mansilla +2 more
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