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Gender, Distribution, and Balance of Payments (revised 10/08) [PDF]

open access: yes
An unresolved debate in the development literature concerns the impact of gender inequality on economic growth. Previous studies have found that the effect depends on the time frame (short or long run) and the measure of inequality.
Stephanie Seguino
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‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Equality Indicators in Ukraine: Impact Analysis of Gender Initiatives

open access: yesСтатистика України
The article presents the results of a study on determining the impact of gender initiatives on indicators of gender equality in Ukraine. For analysis, the authors chose the Gender Development Index and the Gender Inequality Index, as well as their ...
K. Akbash, N. Pasichnyk, R. Rizhniak
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the Gender Gap: Tackling Women's Inequality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Launched at the Plan International Because I am a Girl campaign launch event in New York City held on October 11, 2012 (the inaugural UN International Day of the Girl Child), this publication explores the issue of gender equality - something that remains

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Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and poverty : a life cycle approach to the analysis of the differences in gender outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors study complex interactions between gender and poverty in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. The goal of their analysis is to uncover how a spectrum of gender differentials at different parts of the life cycle varies across income groups.
Michael Lokshin, Thomas A. Mroz
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‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

"Race, Ethnicity, and the Gender-Poverty Gap" [PDF]

open access: yes
We use data from the Current Population Survey (CPS 1994-2001) to document the relationship between gender-specific demographic variations and the gender-poverty gap among eight racial/ethnic groups. We find that Black and Puerto Rican women experience a
Hsien-Hen Lu, Yuval Elmelech
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Relational and feminist pedagogic approaches for developing engagement and inclusion of girls at risk of exclusion in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing.
Juliette Wilson‐Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap [PDF]

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This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality
Antonczyk, Dirk   +2 more
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