Top Research Papers on Gender Equality

Abstract Purpose This study will look at the relationship between norms on gender equality on the one hand and the level of gender equality in the political and socioeconomic sphere, the presence or absence of armed conflict, and general peacefulness on the other. Design/methodology/approach Data on gender equality norms from the World Values Surveys, political and socioeconomic gender equality from the Global Gender Gap Index, armed conflict from the Uppsala Conflict Data Base, and general peacefulness from the Global Peace Index are analyzed in a bivariate correlation. Findings ...

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 paper addresses the dilemmas, contradictions and paradoxes in the Danish approach to gender quotas and gender equality and discusses the intersections of citizenship, democracy and gender justice. Gender research understands gender quota as a means to achieve equal rights, gender equality and gender parity. Gender theory has conceptualized gender parity as one step towards achieving gender justice in all arenas of social, political and economic life. The Danish cases illustrate that context matters and question gender quota as a universal strategy to achieve gender equality. The empirical ...

At the Mail&Guardian, we exist in a cocoon. Always have done, in fact. The reason the newspaper took so easily to a woman editor is that female leadership is in its DNA. It's also a PC newspaper, so it's always valued gender equity and practised it, though some of my sisters at the newspaper may not always agree.

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Abstract The increasing attention granted to improving gender equality in all the economic and social sectors, on all levels, is manifested in concrete actions undertaken by both different international bodies and national authorities. Even though the majority of EU member states have adopted the necessary legislative framework to ensure gender equality, the practical application of wage equality still remains a real problem. Studies in the field show that in Romania, remuneration differences between men and women are much lower in comparison to other states, but the effects are fully felt due...

The relationship between gender equality and the gender gap in mathematics vanished after PISA 2003, and this study used five waves of country-level PISA data and found no evidence to support this argument.

The emergence and growth of the internet and social media platforms have engendered significant transformations in everyday life, affecting not only society’s most innermost life but also its structural organization. This digital realm impacts gender equality, giving rise to spaces for feminist community building and activism, but at the same time enabling online gender harassment and violence. Our aim was to construct possible scenarios of the future, focusing on foreseeable consequences of social media on gender (in)equality in Europe. Using the Delphi+ method, we generated diverse future sc...

This paper investigates which values are communicated by public universities through the elaboration of gender budgets and whether and how coherence is built with the respective performance measurement systems. In a society where increasing pressures are put by national and international institutions to guarantee gender equality and fight against any kind of discrimination, universities are expected to play a key role in pursuing such goals and support the development of a culture of integration, respect, and equal opportunities. Among the different initiatives, universities are adopting a gen...

Summary Summary Summary Summary There are many gendered patterns in the use of space, but planning policy tends to ignore the fact that men and women use space differently. This paper argues that this has resulted in built environments that often disadvantage women and do not meet their needs. From 2007, new legislation in the form of the Gender Equality Duty required public authorities involved in planning and regeneration to take gender equality into consideration. The paper outlines the Duty and draws on ongoing research to reflect on some examples where gender is being taken into account i...

This article sets out to assess the opportunities and risks for the advancement of gender equality in the European Union offered by the establishment of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). It argues that the formal aims and objectives of the Institute mirror the wider political context today (and as such are congruent with the preferences of the political elites); for the same reason, however, the Institute may be hard-pressed to fulfil those functions originally envisaged by a specific but broad range of actors in the field of equal opportunities. Whether or not the Institute w...

Using the systemic, structural and contrastive linguistic theories as base of analysis, the paper identifies and explicates eighteen English-translated Yoruba proverbs associated with women and brings out their inadequacies with regard to gender prejudice against the female race. Out of the eighteen, fourteen are found to be gender-biased while only four of them are gender-neutral and can apply to both sexes. From the foregoing, it suggests the second versions of these proverbs that cater for the gender not represented in the first set. Thus, the paper is able to prove that the same set of pro...

Abstract In this article I critically examine the constitutional and institutional engineering involved in promoting gender equality in South Africa through a careful study of the CGE. I trace its political history from its conception in the minds of gender activists at a particular moment in the transitional process, to the promulgation of its existence through the law, to its inception as an institution and its subsequent establishment and design and finally to its practice. My concern is whether ‘gender equality by design’ and the creation of an institution with a particular constitutional ...

Large projects financed by the EU are always evaluated. But are these evaluations looking for long-term effects? It is no simple task to capture effects of programmes and projects. One reason is that these effects may be of many different kinds - unexpected, non-intended, surprising, hidden and sometimes outside the goal area. Capturing these types of effects has proved to be very important in assessing the value of the programmes.This book describes the results of a number of analyses of development work in large projects and programmes - in organisations, at the regional level, in national p...

Abstract of thesis (max 8000 characters) This qualitative study takes an inductive approach towards the field of gender and gender equality work. The main aim of the study is to gain understandings of how companies who seek recognition for their gender equality practices use an award for gender equality and how they view the concepts of gender and gender equality. Our research draws from a poststructuralist feministic metatheoretical framework as we stress how reality is socially constructed and discursive fields dictate how we view gender and gendered relations. Drawing on interpretative and ...

This study investigates the association between gender gap and economic progress. Using a panel VAR study as well as a comprehensive gender gap index and its sub-indices from the World Economic Forum, the study confirms the existence of bidirectional Granger causality between gender gap and economic progress, for OECD countries and developing countries. On the one hand, economic progress encourages equity for both sexes. On the other hand, gender equity helps developing nations prosper and significantly improve their human capital, which, in turn, drives long-run economic progress. By contrast...

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This article presents a study of publicly available Svenskt översättarlexikon ‘The Swedish Encyclopaedia of Translators’ (SwET 2009), most probably the first digital encyclopaedia of translators. The study is situated in the fields of the sociology of translators, (literary) translator studies, and translation history, and focuses on how female translators are described, characterized and evaluated in the version of SwET from 2022. Three research questions are addressed in the paper: (1) What is the ratio of entries presenting female and male translators in the SwET? (2) What is the quantitati...

Despite the enormous literature on federalism in constitutional design, and the growing attention to gender equality in constitutional design, there has been remarkably little attention paid to the interaction between the two. This article seeks to provide a summary of the existing literature on this intersection, to apply the insights of that literature to the case of Myanmar, and to offer a contribution concerning the theoretical connections between federalism and gender equality. The analysis generates four primary conclusions. First, federalism is inherently neither good nor bad for gender...

This thesis examines how gender equality measures and discourses are reconciled with notions of merit in academia. Gender equality is often defined as equal rights for women and men and has become a widely accepted political goal and vision. Meritocratic principles build on the assumption that everyone, regardless of gender, class, race and sexuality, has the same opportunities to advance provided they are sufficiently hardworking and intelligent. Meritocratic principles thus build on the assumption that objective evaluations are possible. Along these lines, inequalities in academia are a natu...

The enactment of the 'Integral Law Against Gender Violence' has enhanced penalties for several behaviors like threats or coercion when these are done against the female partner. It has also established a different prison sentence in the crime of occasional minor violence when the author is the man or when it is the woman. This produced a heated discussion in order to see if the equality principle was infringed. This paper deals with the discussion that arouse from this law and with the sentence of to the Constitutional Court in order to find out when different punishments are justified in crim...

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.

Because the Israeli kibbutz is innovative in collective ownership, production, consumption, and child care, and in part also because it is erroneously assumed to have once had a gender-egalitarian ideology and structure, it is taken to be a valid test case for many theories explaining or justifying gender inequality or gender equality. This article argues that the kibbutz cannot serve as a test case for theories that blame inequality on the family as such, on the exclusivity of infant rearing by women, on the precultural differences between the sexes, or on compulsory heterosexuality for women...

Gender equality is a great concern in many countries; however, transition to gender equality requires major transformations in many aspects such as access to education, ownership of property, participation in decision making and access to employment. For instance, school age girls in some countries are not enrolled in schools or never complete their schooling due to early marriage or involvement in child labour compounded by household poverty unlike boys. Indeed, social traditions and culture confront transition to gender equality despite the advocacy for women empowerment through a number of ...

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.

This paper explores the influence of gender diversity at work through a number of specific illustrations as well as approaches and analysis of gender equality in the world. Using liberal and radical approach which are the most prominent and effective approaches, this paper finds that gender equality has a positive impact on quality improvement practices and performance at work. The reality of maintaining and improving gender diversity positively affects an organisation’s performance. These findings can be useful for both researchers and managers about literature review, especially developing c...

Abstrak: Format hak untuk warisan anak putra dan putri, yaitu 2: 1, didasarkan pada kebenaran secar keseluruhan dalam bentuk keadilan dengan disertai hak dan kewajiban. Format tersebut dapat dilakukan secara kuantitatif jika hak dan kewajiban antara putra dan putri berjalan sebagaimana mestinya. Jika ada pertimbangan yang menjamin lebih banyak keadilan, angka tersebut dapat diartikan secara kualitatif, yaitu angka 2 (bagian putra) adalah angka maksimum dan nomor 1 (bagian putri) adalah angka minimum. Keduanya ditujukan untuk memastikan terwujudnya maqashid al-syari> ‘ah dalam bentuk keadilan. ...

This mapping presents a selected overview of existing research on gender, education and population flows in the Nordic peripheral areas. These areas are faced with a series of challenges that cannot be analyzed nor solved without taking a gender perspective into account. The challenges relate to, for instance, altered living conditions caused by global changes, stagnated or negative economic development, decrease in the amount of workplaces (particularly in the traditionally male-dominated professions) as well as, not least, migration and depopulation which is partly due to the fact that the y...

Gender inequality is a problem that is interlinked with many other development issues. The UN have for long time been in the forefront when it comes to addressing gender equality and development, but has also been criticized for lacking an adequate understanding of gender. With the theoretical departure in gender mainstreaming as strategy for institutional policy-making, discourse analysis as my methodological approach and the UN gender discourse as my research focus, the intention of this paper is to analyze how the understanding of gender and gender equality can be interpreted in UN policies...

A summary of two films on the struggles of Indonesian women.

U clanku su izloženi neki od najizraženijih problema koji prate provedbu politike ravnopravnosti spolova u Hrvatskoj. U procesu približavanja EU, hrvatska ce vlada trebati kroz usklađivanje svoje legislative s pravnom stecevinom EU, ali i kroz sasvim konkretne projekte trebati dokazati svoju posvecenost standardima ravnopravnosti spolova.

Diversity and Gender EqualityBy the Minister of Defence, Anne-Grete Strom-ErichsenTo create a dynamic and well functioning military organisation, the Armed Forces depend on a diversity of human resources. An important personal goal for me is that ...

This essay opens with the rhetorical analysis of the article which appeared in April 2016 in the Japan Times entitled “An Open Letter to the Japanese Womanhood. Advice on How to Take the Best Parts of the Stereotypes without Becoming One Yourself” in the context of gender inequality in Japan. Japan is one of the three largest economies in the world and a member of G7 group, yet the level of discrimination of women in Japan is without equal in the developed world. Widely criticized by international institutions such as the United Nations or the World Economic Forum, Japan fi nally introduced a ...

This article takes the appointment and term in office of Governor General of Australia, Dame Quentin Bryce (2008-2014), as the basis for a discussion about the potential role of the Governor General in promoting progress on issues of gender equality and minority rights protections. The article adopts a multidisciplinary methodology, combining law and feminist political science to analyse different receptions of the post when it is occupied by men and women engaged in debates concerning different minority populations. It makes a brief comparison with the institution of the President of the Repu...

The Scandinavian countries are seen around the world as role models of gender equality. However, this is not the case for sport. Even though the percentage of female athletes has increased, women are still underrepresented and do not occupy positions of power in sports organizations. This study is based on a survey of representatives of local sport clubs who sought funding to implement projects within the framework of sport for all; Idrottslyftet (The Lift for Sport). The aim was to examine how sports federations’ work with The Lift for Sport was perceived at the club level by male and female ...

The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze how Global Organizations work with Gender Equality, what type of challenges they experience and how they can be addressed. Secondarily, it addresses ho ...

Translating "Gender Equality" : Northwestern Russia meets the Global Gender Equality Agenda

Preface Introduction: capabilities, challenges, and the omnipresence of political liberalism Martha C. Nussbaum Part I. The Capabilities Approach: 1. Perfectionist liberalism and political liberalism Martha C. Nussbaum 2. Rawlsian social-contract theory and the severely disabled Henry S. Richardson 3. Logos, pathos and ethos in Martha C. Nussbaum's capabilities approach to human development Des Gasper 4. Building capabilities: a new paradigm for human development Flavio Comim 5. Capabilities or functionings? Anatomy of a debate Marc Fleurbaey 6. From humans to all of life: Nussbaum's transform...

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"Marriage equality" remains an elusive goal in this country. About ten years ago I wrote an article suggesting that private ordering would be a good alternative to the rather haphazard and arbitrary state law governing marriage. Instead, I urged couples to draft their own "marriage proposals." As an example, I attached a "Gender Equity Marriage Proposal." The idea was that "gender equity" might be of some interest to some couples, just as others might be more concerned with a child-centered (or wealth- or environment-centered) model. I meant well. But my premise was deeply flawed for at least ...

This study aims to understand how goals of activation and gender equality interact in labor market programs directed towards activating unemployed participants. The study draws on interviews with 28 social workers and managers at four Swedish municipally governed labor market programs typically targeted towards poor, unemployed individuals with little to no attachment to the labor market or social insurance system. Our findings show that activation goals are understood to be clear cut and a dominant logic within the labor market programs. The gender equality goals are understood as fuzzy and s...

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 “Gender Equality” is one of 17 goals aiming to change global inequalities until 2030. Contrary to the prior Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs not only target the Global South and East, but also make the Global North and West accountable for the global inequalities. SDG 5 “Gender Equality”, however, uses the term “gender” as a binary concept that includes only men and women considered healthy, and counts only specific women and girls as relevant: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. In this article, I argue that this is ...

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The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Bill (2012) was passed by the Senate on 22 November 2012. The Bill amends the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act (1999) to reflect a new focus of the Act on improving gender equality in the workplace - hence it is titled the Gender Equality Act. As such, it covers both women and men, and specific recognition is made of equality in remuneration and the centrality of family/carer responsibilities in achieving gender equality.

This slim volume explores a radical topic: the potential gender training has for contributing to the transformation of gender relations. Radical, given the barrage of criticisms targeted at both ge...

The theology of John Calvin (1509-64) reveals a view of women that has long puzzled his readers. On one hand, he praises and blames women as responsible actors equal to men, and, on the other hand, he praises and blames women as inferior creatures with a well-defined and restricted role to play. It is the aim of this report to uncover the apparent contradiction between gender equality and gender hierarchy in Calvin's thought and to offer an explanatory interpretation of it based on his distinction between cognitio dei (knowledge of God) and cognitio hominis (knowledge of humankind). When one c...

The Baltic States have made a considerable progress in meeting gender equality directives of European Union (EU) in line with the proclaimed fundamental democratic values of Member States and of Union enlargement policy. Despite progress, equality in day-to-day life is still undermined by structural gender in equalities and unequal access to rights enjoyed by women and men in practice. The issues of women’s unemployment, poverty, age, and ethnic background clearly manifest the political preferences by national governances of the Baltic States for the expert-bureaucratic model, based on ‘integr...

Operational approaches by governments and development agencies have not yet been successful in closing gaps between men and women in key areas of economic empowerment, and in preventing and responding to gender-based violence. In 2012 a group of like-minded partners came together with the World Bank Group to establish the Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (UFGE), a multi-donor trust fund aimed at developing innovative, evidence-based solutions to learn what works and what does not work to close gaps. As of the end of fiscal year 2019 (FY19), the UFGE had supported 183 grant activities in n...

Purpose In Sweden, gender mainstreaming policies have a long political history. As part of the national gender equality strategy of the Swedish forest industry, the ten largest forestry companies committed themselves to gender mainstream their policies. Limiting the impact of policies and the agency of change, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the varied and conflicting meanings and constitution of the concepts, the problem and, in extent, the organisational realities of gender mainstreaming. Design/methodology/approach In both, implementation and practice, gender mainstreaming posse...

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