Top Research Papers on Gender Equality

The subject of this topic is the gender equality as a fundamental right and part of the human rights. As such it deserves the proper attention and position in the society. This paper aims to explicate the significance and implementation of the principles of the rates on gender equality. It also explicates discrimination in base of gender with regard to the involvement of woman in decision-making and political life of a certain country. These principles of the gender equality will be analyzed in the local and international aspect. Therefore, the study field is going to be comprehensive, but lea...

The author interviewed nine high-ranking businesswomen in India. The interviews gave him a different perspective on the question of gender equality. The argument for women’s participation is neither about the democratic principle of equal opportunity – in numerical terms, nor is it about making use of the full managerial talent available in the country/world. The present day solutions are based on these two woefully inadequate premises. When women do not participate at the highest levels it means our business world is losing an entire feminine perspective to imagination, ideation, planning, te...

The author interviewed nine high-ranking businesswomen in India. The interviews gave him a different perspective on the question of gender equality. The argument for women’s participation is neither about the democratic principle of equal opportunity – in numerical terms, nor is it about making use of the full managerial talent available in the country/world. The present day solutions are based on these two woefully inadequate premises. When women do not participate at the highest levels it means our business world is losing an entire feminine perspective to imagination, ideation, planning, te...

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? Gender and politics scholarship contends that gender equality is about more than counting women and men in elected assemblies. Concerns related to power, agency, and intersectionality should equally be addressed. This chapter engages with these challenges by going back to the conceptual roots of descriptive representation. Based on a re-reading o...

The Constitution of India, Article 14 confers equal rights and opportunities on men and women, and ensures gender equality in its preamble as a fundamental right. India has also ratified various international conventions and human rights forums to secure equal rights of women, such as ratification of Convention on elimination of all forms of discrimination against women in 1993. Women have been finding place in local governance structures, overcoming gender biases. Over one million women have been elected to local panchayats as a result of 1993 amendment to the Indian Constitution requiring th...

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 negatively impact health, education, and economic achievements. The roadmap to gender equality involves legal framework reforms, policies to promote equal access to health, education, and jobs, and efforts to change social norms. They need to be set in the context of arisi...

Standard University (I am making this up) wanted to make sure it was admitting students in a way that's fair to males and females. So SU told its two departments, A and B, that the proportion of male and female acceptances must be the same as the proportion of male and female applicants. Department A had 100 male and 100 female applicants. It could accept only 100 new students, so it accepted 50 males and 50 females; it accepted 50% of the male applicants, and 50% of the female applicants, fulfilling its obligation. Department B had 100 male and 900 female applicants. It could accept only 100 ...

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.

The feminist perspective reshapes the categories through which gender is performed. Gender explores a dimension of human life that has proven to be troublesome in understanding oneself and causing disturbances in social relationships and structures. Though critics feel that gender loyalties will deprive the chances of redressing distortions and omissions, the fact is that in real ‘lived in experience', gender neutrality is a mirage. Hence ‘gender' matters. Gender justice is a desirable social goal. Feminism is a thought trend that refuses to identify human experience with male experience. The ...

The feminist perspective reshapes the categories through which gender is performed. Gender explores a dimension of human life that has proven to be troublesome in understanding oneself and causing disturbances in social relationships and structures. Though critics feel that gender loyalties will deprive the chances of redressing distortions and omissions, the fact is that in real ‘lived in experience', gender neutrality is a mirage. Hence ‘gender' matters. Gender justice is a desirable social goal. Feminism is a thought trend that refuses to identify human experience with male experience. The ...

This chapter examines the gender contract between women, society, and the state to identify continuities and changes in gender equality in Irish society since the 1970s. It examines attitudes to women in the home and the controversial public policy debates on abortion to illustrate shifts and stasis in this relationship. The chapter explores the slow evolution of gender equality as an institutional policy concern, supported by successive government commissions and given impetus by the feminist movement. These initiatives culminated in national gender equality plans linked to international comm...

This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresentation of women in legislatures Using a most similar case design and a mixed-methods approach, the authors draw attention to the ways in which electoral systems and party regulations interface with voluntary party quotas in Germany and Austria [ ]

Abstract A consensus has emerged that gender-friendly policies can promote higher fertility in rich democracies (Esping-Andersen 1999). This paper supplies a political explanation for why these fertility-enabling policies diverge across countries. Using Sweden and Germany as our primary case studies, we argue that the strength of the left party's hold on government, rather than economic or social factors, underpins the expansion of the public sector that draws women into the labor force and allows them to balance family and career.

Gender equality and anti-sexist practice has been a distinct feature of the equal opportunities agenda in the early childhood community for about 30 years. Campaigns waged by women's liberation groups from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s forced politicians, policy makers and individuals to consider a range of differences in the life experiences and opportunities available to men and women. This included differences in pay, educational achievement and career choices, division of work in the home, rights to maternity leave, legal status, domestic violence and rape.

This entry describes three different approaches—promotion of women, gender mainstreaming, and cultural/structural change —which are used to pursue the three goals of gender equality in higher education: to abolish all forms of discrimination in access to higher education as well as in career progression, to change the gender biased university culture and to strengthen the gender dimension in research content and teaching.

Exploratory evidence of the attitudes towards and the needs of male victims of domestic violence and abuse in Northern Ireland with recommendations for change.

The Women in Science Symposium took place during the European Congress of Immunology in Glasgow, Scotland as a European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS) event and opened a discussion based on personal experiences of female scientists regarding the hurdles that women find in their careers in Europe.

Hrvatski sabor je 14. srpnja 2003. usvojio Zakon o ravnopravnosti spolova. Zakon je donesen kao dio harmonizacijskih napora Hrvatske, temeljem obveza koje proizlaze iz međunarodnog prava, te obveza preuzetih Sporazumom o stabilizaciji i pridruživanju između Hrvatske i Europske unije i njezinih država clanica.

In fact, gender differences are not a problem as long as they do not give birth to gender inequalities in social life. However, in reality these gender differences have given rise to various injustices, not only to women but also to men. Men who have roles as breadwinners and protectors are required by culture to be strong, able to work hard, and be rational so that they lose the sides of gentleness and an attitude of peace which are other needs in human life. Perhaps this is the main factor causing the low life expectancy of men compared to women.

Exploratory evidence of the attitudes towards and the needs of male victims of domestic violence and abuse in Northern Ireland with recommendations for change.