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Twenty years of gender equality research: A scoping review based on a
Gender equality is a major problem that places women at a disadvantage thereby stymieing economic growth and societal advancement. In the last two decades, extensive research has been conducted on gender related issues, studying both their antecedents and consequences. However, existing literature reviews fail to provide a comprehensive and clear picture of what has been studied so far, which ...
Gender equality: the route to a better world
The road to a gender-equal world is long, and women's power and freedom to make choices is still very constrained. But the evidence from science is getting stronger: distributing power between ...
Progress toward gender equality in the United States has slowed or
Social scientists have documented a dramatic change in gender inequality in the last half century, sometimes called a "gender revolution." Women's employment increased and became the norm, even for mothers of young children ().Birth control became available to most (2, 3).The proportion of women receiving baccalaureate or doctoral degrees increased dramatically (4, 5).
Gendered stereotypes and norms: A systematic review of interventions
As highlighted in Figure 2, this common theory of change was the same across all identified intervention categories, irrespective of the overarching focus of the study (gender equality, prevention of violence, sexual and reproductive health, mental health and wellbeing). Those examining gender equality more broadly did so in relation to female ...
Promoting Gender Equality: A Systematic Review of Interventions
The Global Gender Gap Index 2022 benchmarks 146 countries on the evolution of gender-based gaps in economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment (World Economic Forum, 2022).Although the Index measures gender parity (defined in Table 1) rather than substantive equality, it is a useful tool for analysing progression and regression.
A Systematic Review and New Analyses of the Gender-Equality Paradox
Some studies have shown that improved living conditions (e.g., economy, gender equality, education) measured at the country level are associated with larger sex differences 1 in personality and cognitive functions (e.g., Asperholm, Nagar, et al., 2019; Falk & Hermle, 2018; Giolla & Kajonius, 2019)—sometimes referred to as a "gender-equality paradox" (e.g., Stoet & Geary, 2018).
Women's Assessments of Gender Equality
These studies examined a single gender equality index and one (or in one study, two) cross-national surveys; the current article offers the robustness of multiple data sources, analyzing seven international indices of gender equality and six cross-national surveys. ... "Measuring Key Disparities in Human Development: The Gender Inequality ...
Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we
The purpose of this Review is to provide evidence for why gender equality in science, medicine, and global health matters for health and health-related outcomes. We present a high-level synthesis of global gender data, summarise progress towards gender equality in science, medicine, and global health, review the evidence for why gender equality in these fields matters in terms of health and ...
Gender inequality as a barrier to economic growth: a review of the
The vast majority of theories reviewed argue that gender inequality is a barrier to economic development, particularly over the long run. The focus on long-run supply-side models reflects a recent effort by growth theorists to incorporate two stylized facts of economic development in the last two centuries: (i) a strong positive association between gender equality and income per capita (Fig. 1 ...
Quantifying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality on
The most significant gender gaps identified in our study show intensified levels of pre-existing widespread inequalities between women and men during the COVID-19 pandemic. Political and social leaders should prioritise policies that enable and encourage women to participate in the labour force and continue their education, thereby equipping and enabling them with greater ability to overcome ...
Gender equality will enhance research around the world
15 March 2022. Gender equality will enhance research around the world. If researchers want to have maximum impact, women must be at the table. You have full access to this article via your ...
Gender equality in higher education and research
Higher education and research are key instruments for empowerment and social change. Universities can be powerful institutions for promoting gender equality, diversity and inclusion, not only in the higher education context, but also in society at large. Nevertheless, universities remain both gendered and gendering organizations (Rosa, Drew ...
Research Roundup: How Women Experience the Workplace Today
In this research roundup, we share highlights from several new and forthcoming studies that explore the many facets of gender at work. In 2021, the gender gap in U.S. workforce participation hit ...
Gender Equality Attitudes Study 2022: The levers for change
Gender equality attitudes 2019. The study aims to measure the prevalence of discriminatory attitudes and gender-based stereotypes that perpetuate gender inequality, and demonstrate how widespread and deeply entrenched these views are. The findings from this study are meant to inform policy-makers, representatives from academia, advertisers ...
Examining obstacles to gender equality
Stanford scholars have studied the obstacles women face across society - at work, in education, as leaders - and how to reach a more equitable society for everyone. The overturning of Roe v ...
Twenty years of gender equality research: A scoping review based on a
Introduction. The persistent gender inequalities that currently exist across the developed and developing world are receiving increasing attention from economists, policymakers, and the general public [e.g., 1-3].Economic studies have indicated that women's education and entry into the workforce contributes to social and economic well-being [e.g., 4, 5], while their exclusion from the ...
Men and women differ in their perception of gender bias in research
There is extensive evidence of gender inequality in research leading to insufficient representation of women in leadership positions. Numbers revealing a gender gap in research are periodically reported by national and international institutions but data on perceptions of gender equality within the research community are scarce. In the present study, a questionnaire based on the British Athena ...
Meeting the challenge of gender inequality through gender
This article explores six case studies of gender transformative research across Africa, ... It can lead to new understandings of masculinity and the role of men in achieving gender equality. Research in the case study on Harassmap in Egypt showed 75 per cent of male respondents reported having perpetrated sexual harassment and interviews and ...
The Transformative Potential of Gender Equality Plans to Expand ...
The introduction of women's, gender, and feminist studies (WGFS) into higher education (HE) curricula has primarily been driven by individual efforts rather than institutional objectives. This article employs a multimethod approach to comprehensively understand the potential contribution of gender equality plans (GEPs) to strengthening the integration of WGFS in HE curricula and pedagogical ...
(PDF) A Study On Gender Equality And Women Empowerment: A New Insight
Women empowerment was first coined in 1985 at the UN's third world conference on women and over the last few decades, it has gained momentum. Gender Equality has occupied fifth place in the list ...
PDF Gender equality attitudes study 2019
ilot study include:Key Message 1: People are aware of gender inequalities faced by. women across development dimensions.Gaps are perceived to be smaller or nonexistent in access to basi. services like education and health.48% think the quality of healthcare is good or excellent for.
A qualitative study on gender inequality and gender-based violence in
Participants. This study was part of a larger control-comparison project that used Forum Theatre interventions to promote gender equality, reduce violence against women, and increase awareness of sex trafficking [39, 40].The participants for the focus group discussion included the intervention population from one of the randomly sampled intervention sites.
Students' perceptions of gender equality: A case study of a conflict
The study investigated undergraduate students' perceptions of gender equality, their practices and perceived strategies to promote gender equality in Afghanistan. It also examined the impact of the participants' gender on their responses. The authors used an online questionnaire to collect data from 448 students using snowball sampling ...
How Americans view gender equality as 19th ...
Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans' views of the current state of gender equality and the advancement of women around the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,143 U.S. adults in March and April 2020, including an oversample of Black and Hispanic respondents. The ...
Wo∼Men and Leadership: Re-Thinking the State of Research on Gender and
Change" organization to enhance gender equality. With regards to the research field, the terrain is also complex and can be described as "one step forwards, one step backward." Joshi et al. (2015) systematically reviewed and analyzed key trends in studies on gender in the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) publications
Twenty-Five Years of Progress-Lessons Learned From JMIR ...
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the gender distribution among first and last authors in digital health research, thereby ... To identify strategies ensuring equality in research, a detailed comparison of gender representation in JMIR journals was conducted within the field, as well as against a matched sample. Two-tailed Welch 2 ...
New research from EGC's Gender and Growth Gaps project featured in the
EGC Gender and Growth Gaps Research Featured in World Bank's 2024 World Development Report. By Adam Walker August 2, 2024. New research from EGC's Gender and Growth Gaps project was featured in the World Bank's 2024 World Development Report, released on August 2. The 2024 WDR focuses on the "Middle-Income Trap", a situation where growth slows when countries hit middle-income levels, and ...
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When do Women Take the Lead? Exploring the Intersection Between Gender
Explaining gender differences in EPP. Gender, as opposed to sex, is a social construct. Whereas sex is an assigned label given at birth based on one's physical body, gender is a result of personal and psychological characteristics given and taught to men and women within a given culture (Hoominfar Citation 2019).Gender socialization theory thus describes how people learn to "do" gender ...
Men tend to eat meat more often than women, study suggests
The differences in meat consumption were greater in countries with more gender equality and social and economic development, with the greatest differences seen in Germany, Argentina, Poland and ...
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Gender equality is a major problem that places women at a disadvantage thereby stymieing economic growth and societal advancement. In the last two decades, extensive research has been conducted on gender related issues, studying both their antecedents and consequences. However, existing literature reviews fail to provide a comprehensive and clear picture of what has been studied so far, which ...
The road to a gender-equal world is long, and women's power and freedom to make choices is still very constrained. But the evidence from science is getting stronger: distributing power between ...
Social scientists have documented a dramatic change in gender inequality in the last half century, sometimes called a "gender revolution." Women's employment increased and became the norm, even for mothers of young children ().Birth control became available to most (2, 3).The proportion of women receiving baccalaureate or doctoral degrees increased dramatically (4, 5).
As highlighted in Figure 2, this common theory of change was the same across all identified intervention categories, irrespective of the overarching focus of the study (gender equality, prevention of violence, sexual and reproductive health, mental health and wellbeing). Those examining gender equality more broadly did so in relation to female ...
The Global Gender Gap Index 2022 benchmarks 146 countries on the evolution of gender-based gaps in economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment (World Economic Forum, 2022).Although the Index measures gender parity (defined in Table 1) rather than substantive equality, it is a useful tool for analysing progression and regression.
Some studies have shown that improved living conditions (e.g., economy, gender equality, education) measured at the country level are associated with larger sex differences 1 in personality and cognitive functions (e.g., Asperholm, Nagar, et al., 2019; Falk & Hermle, 2018; Giolla & Kajonius, 2019)—sometimes referred to as a "gender-equality paradox" (e.g., Stoet & Geary, 2018).
These studies examined a single gender equality index and one (or in one study, two) cross-national surveys; the current article offers the robustness of multiple data sources, analyzing seven international indices of gender equality and six cross-national surveys. ... "Measuring Key Disparities in Human Development: The Gender Inequality ...
The purpose of this Review is to provide evidence for why gender equality in science, medicine, and global health matters for health and health-related outcomes. We present a high-level synthesis of global gender data, summarise progress towards gender equality in science, medicine, and global health, review the evidence for why gender equality in these fields matters in terms of health and ...
The vast majority of theories reviewed argue that gender inequality is a barrier to economic development, particularly over the long run. The focus on long-run supply-side models reflects a recent effort by growth theorists to incorporate two stylized facts of economic development in the last two centuries: (i) a strong positive association between gender equality and income per capita (Fig. 1 ...
The most significant gender gaps identified in our study show intensified levels of pre-existing widespread inequalities between women and men during the COVID-19 pandemic. Political and social leaders should prioritise policies that enable and encourage women to participate in the labour force and continue their education, thereby equipping and enabling them with greater ability to overcome ...
15 March 2022. Gender equality will enhance research around the world. If researchers want to have maximum impact, women must be at the table. You have full access to this article via your ...
Higher education and research are key instruments for empowerment and social change. Universities can be powerful institutions for promoting gender equality, diversity and inclusion, not only in the higher education context, but also in society at large. Nevertheless, universities remain both gendered and gendering organizations (Rosa, Drew ...
In this research roundup, we share highlights from several new and forthcoming studies that explore the many facets of gender at work. In 2021, the gender gap in U.S. workforce participation hit ...
Gender equality attitudes 2019. The study aims to measure the prevalence of discriminatory attitudes and gender-based stereotypes that perpetuate gender inequality, and demonstrate how widespread and deeply entrenched these views are. The findings from this study are meant to inform policy-makers, representatives from academia, advertisers ...
Stanford scholars have studied the obstacles women face across society - at work, in education, as leaders - and how to reach a more equitable society for everyone. The overturning of Roe v ...
Introduction. The persistent gender inequalities that currently exist across the developed and developing world are receiving increasing attention from economists, policymakers, and the general public [e.g., 1-3].Economic studies have indicated that women's education and entry into the workforce contributes to social and economic well-being [e.g., 4, 5], while their exclusion from the ...
There is extensive evidence of gender inequality in research leading to insufficient representation of women in leadership positions. Numbers revealing a gender gap in research are periodically reported by national and international institutions but data on perceptions of gender equality within the research community are scarce. In the present study, a questionnaire based on the British Athena ...
This article explores six case studies of gender transformative research across Africa, ... It can lead to new understandings of masculinity and the role of men in achieving gender equality. Research in the case study on Harassmap in Egypt showed 75 per cent of male respondents reported having perpetrated sexual harassment and interviews and ...
The introduction of women's, gender, and feminist studies (WGFS) into higher education (HE) curricula has primarily been driven by individual efforts rather than institutional objectives. This article employs a multimethod approach to comprehensively understand the potential contribution of gender equality plans (GEPs) to strengthening the integration of WGFS in HE curricula and pedagogical ...
Women empowerment was first coined in 1985 at the UN's third world conference on women and over the last few decades, it has gained momentum. Gender Equality has occupied fifth place in the list ...
ilot study include:Key Message 1: People are aware of gender inequalities faced by. women across development dimensions.Gaps are perceived to be smaller or nonexistent in access to basi. services like education and health.48% think the quality of healthcare is good or excellent for.
Participants. This study was part of a larger control-comparison project that used Forum Theatre interventions to promote gender equality, reduce violence against women, and increase awareness of sex trafficking [39, 40].The participants for the focus group discussion included the intervention population from one of the randomly sampled intervention sites.
The study investigated undergraduate students' perceptions of gender equality, their practices and perceived strategies to promote gender equality in Afghanistan. It also examined the impact of the participants' gender on their responses. The authors used an online questionnaire to collect data from 448 students using snowball sampling ...
Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans' views of the current state of gender equality and the advancement of women around the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,143 U.S. adults in March and April 2020, including an oversample of Black and Hispanic respondents. The ...
Change" organization to enhance gender equality. With regards to the research field, the terrain is also complex and can be described as "one step forwards, one step backward." Joshi et al. (2015) systematically reviewed and analyzed key trends in studies on gender in the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) publications
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the gender distribution among first and last authors in digital health research, thereby ... To identify strategies ensuring equality in research, a detailed comparison of gender representation in JMIR journals was conducted within the field, as well as against a matched sample. Two-tailed Welch 2 ...
EGC Gender and Growth Gaps Research Featured in World Bank's 2024 World Development Report. By Adam Walker August 2, 2024. New research from EGC's Gender and Growth Gaps project was featured in the World Bank's 2024 World Development Report, released on August 2. The 2024 WDR focuses on the "Middle-Income Trap", a situation where growth slows when countries hit middle-income levels, and ...
Our resources share the knowledge gathered by IUCN's unique global community of 16,000+ experts. They include databases, tools, standards, guidelines and policy recommendations. We author hundreds of books, assessments, reports, briefs and research papers every year.
Explaining gender differences in EPP. Gender, as opposed to sex, is a social construct. Whereas sex is an assigned label given at birth based on one's physical body, gender is a result of personal and psychological characteristics given and taught to men and women within a given culture (Hoominfar Citation 2019).Gender socialization theory thus describes how people learn to "do" gender ...
The differences in meat consumption were greater in countries with more gender equality and social and economic development, with the greatest differences seen in Germany, Argentina, Poland and ...