This study investigates trends in gender inequality throughout the world. Using data encompassing a large majority of the world's population, we examine trends in recent decades for key indicators of gender inequality in education, mortality, political representation and economic activity. We find ...
In addition, the gender inequality in terms of physical activity levels is also greater in high- and middle- income countries with higher income inequalities. Conversely, these trends are flatter and even inverse in low-income countries. The models estimate that for a point increase in income ...
Thus, while gender, if at all addressed, in most cases appears to be lurking in the background of analysis, the literature demonstrates that gender does matter to political agronomy. Indeed, we argue that intersectional gender norms, roles and relations constitute critical components in our underst...
This paper aims to identify the main contributing factors to the observed gender pay inequality in the last 10 years in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also aims to identify the main restrictions to design evidence-based policy. The average woman in the region works 25 h more per month ...
Continental Divides: International Migration in the Americas || INTRODUCTION: Migration in the Americas: Mexico and Latin America in Comparative Context BIO: Salvador D. Cobo is on the graduate faculty of economics at Mexico's National Polytechnic University. After completing his undergraduate work at...
to the other end of the spectrum, with 3 percent or so in Japan, 5 percent in India, 8 percent in Mexico, Germany, and Brazil, an so on. This is a wide variability that presents great opportunities for countries in Asia to step up at that most senior level of leadership to incorporat...
have the advantage of measuring information on a specific topic (time use) and therefore can produce more information, in greater detail, compared to integrated time-use modules. Despite that other time use surveys are available for other countries, in the cases of Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014) ...
Gender Inequality Index (GII):is released by the UNDP and “measures the human development costs of gender inequality”.Footnote26Thus, the higher the GII value, the more disparities between females and males and more loss to human development. The country with the lowest value in 2019 was Swi...
and the senior ranks of science bear the imprint of previous generations' barriers to the progression of women. Thus it is likely that many of the trends we observed can be explained by the under-representation of women among the elders of science. After all, seniority, authorship position, ...
In contrast, where domestic feminist mobilization is strong and autonomous (as in Canada, the United States or Mexico), global waves magnify and garner strength from those domestic contexts, washing back out into global civil society with renewed strength (Table 1). Table 1. How women of color...