Inspired by the Millennium Development Goals of addressing gender inequality, this chapter examines the initiatives of local governments in the Philippines to empower women through gender-responsive budgeting. Two basic issues are addressed: (1) how is the 5 % gender budget utilized for gender and ...
Some gender gaps are closing, but the pace of progress is too slow in trade. Reformers in government and business can show the way. Learn more.
October 8, 2019 My Mom Doesn’t Want Me To Be A Homemaker “I am an 18 year old female…I’ve ever only wanted to be a wife and mother as the the Bible…Read More October 5, 2019 A Christian Young Woman’s Guide to Life and Finding A Husband in a Post-Feminist World “I real...
empowers the Committee to receive complaints lodged by individuals against States which have ratified the protocol itself for violations of the CEDAW. Widely accepted by European countries, the protocol was only ratified by Cambodia, Philippines and Thailand (ASEAN countries), and it has not yet bee...
The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap (GGG) report places Lao PDR at 37 globally (out of 156 countries) and third among countries in East Asia and the Pacific (below New Zealand and Philippines, which are ranked globally at 4 and 17, respectively).38 In specific gender gap indices...
According to the WEF’s annual gender gap study, the 10 countries with the smallest gender gaps include Iceland, Rwanda and Nicaragua. The top 20 include Costa Rica, Albania and the Philippines alongside European leaders such as Finland, Ireland and Germany. ...
In the research studies with student participants (n = 73), students were mainly from East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia; top source countries in descending order, were China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Korea, India and Taiwan. Asian students (Taiwan = 1, India =...
Two mechanisms especially difficult to separate are those related to individual and social behavior. Individuals adapt their behavior according to what others do. For example, married men in the Philippines changed their expenditure choices when their wives knew they received money (Ashraf2009). Gender...
According to the WEF’s annual gender gap study, the 10 countries with the smallest gender gaps include Iceland, Rwanda and Nicaragua. The top 20 include Costa Rica, Albania and the Philippines alongside European leaders such as Finland, Ireland and Germany. ...
Today, the muxes of Juchitán are just one of several communities around the world who don’t fit into the gender binary, such as hijras in India, bakla in the Philippines and fa’afafine in Samoa. “Their way of life represents a form of resistance against the Western colonizing ...