RE-APPRAISING GENDER ISSUES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS A PARADIGM-SHIFTThe issue of gender has generated lots of arguments in the field of knowledge. The equality and inequality associated with gender is nothing but a social construct, not a biological or ontological construct. The social ...
Sex equality/gender equalityaddresses the different interpretations that are given to the claim that men and women are equal or ought to be treated equally and the arguments used to advance claims for sex equality. This article examines some key interpretations and arguments. Sex equality raises a ...
These social marketing messages and donor strategies mimic arguments for gender equality from the 1970s and 1980s. Rather than building on the rights-based development and best practices of the 1990s, they ignore the critical roles of political capacity and participation that the past forty years ...
Although the empirical evidence of a positive correlation between gender equality and gender differences in personality is overwhelming, we identify some issues with the proposed explanations that remain underdeveloped or represent inconsistencies. For example, we are concerned with arguments suggesting that ...
Gender equality is, first and foremost, a human right . Women are entitled to live in dignity and in freedom from want and from fear. Empowering women is also an indispensable tool for advancing development and reducing poverty. Empowered women contribute to the health and productivity of whole...
Mainstreaming gender equality in poverty eradication and the Millennium Development Goals: a handbook for policymakers and other stakeholders In this book, Naila Kabeer brings together a set of arguments, findings and lessons from the development literature which help to explain why gender equali... ...
whose efforts have been so central to arguments that favor the capabilities approach as a means to address poverty, gender inequality, and social injustice... S Feldman 被引量: 10发表: 2010年 A youth development strategy: principles to practice in re-creation for the 21st century. This article...
This article aims to investigate how gender plays a role for how couples in Sweden talk about, articulate and frame their arguments regarding their division of housework. We identify three practices that act to support and reproduce a traditional gender order. These practices are: constructions of ...
Advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agriculture is a recognised development goal, also within crop breeding. Increasingly, breeding
H BjØrkhaug and SO SØrenson “Feminism Without Gender? Arguments for Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards in Norway” (2014) Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 87 in Norway, in 1999 there was significant concerns about gender inequality and the low number of women on boards. ...