Gender inequality is a major concern in the field of international development because it hinders economic growth and impedes human development. View Video Only Save Timeline Video Quiz Course 5.9K views Re
If we look at the EIGE inequality index in the domain of access to work, we see that three out of four countries that traditionally are included in the Southern European model are well below the European average (81.3) and countries like France (83.7) or Germany (84.2): Spain (80.2), ...
particularly for women farmers (Oluwafemi et al.2020). Again, limited access to production-related resources raises some important inequality concerns. For instance, Amaza et al. (2021) indicate that despite seeing maize as potentially profitable, women may decide not to plant maize...
Climate change adaptation actions that also advance sustainable development goals (SDGs) have the potential to reduce exposure to climate risks and social vulnerability and enhance human wellbeing (Zhenmin and Espinosa, 2019; IPCC, 2022). Gender inequality inherited from historical, socio-economic devel...
(2018) found countries scoring higher on the Gender Inequality Index saw greater gender differences in job satisfaction, but not life satisfaction. Perhaps more surprisingly, in a recent study analyzing the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data for 2015 and 2018 from 78 countries...
of power (gender, class, race/ethnicity, generation) and their interaction within the institu- tional domain of migration (with reference to organizational practices, legal regula- tions, circulation of material and ideational resources) which produce context-specific forms of social inequality. 2...
Giving that campaigns may have failed to address these contexts of gender inequality [5,30,34] and women´s limited ability to implement their reproductive plans [27,29,32], we expect that the Zika epidemics did not change the way couples make sexual and reproductive decisions. ...
Gender disparities in the impacts of shocks and stressors can exac- erbate gender inequality over the medium to long term. Studies of the gendered impacts of the 2008 food price crisis found that both the short- and long-term effects were greater on women smallholder farmers than men, ...
Table 6 Gender Framework (power relation and drivers of inequality) Full size table In terms of health systems/services, two important influences on post-hospital discharge adherence to advice and treatment-seeking for young children were the gender of medical practitioners in facilities and of CHWs...
Gender disparities in the impacts of shocks and stressors can exac- erbate gender inequality over the medium to long term. Studies of the gendered impacts of the 2008 food price crisis found that both the short- and long-term effects were greater on women smallholder farmers than men, ...