Additionally, gender equality is believed to empower women and contribute to overall economic growth and development (World Bank, 2012). To track progress towards the goal of gender equality, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) developed the Gender Inequality Index (GII) in 2010. The ...
Fig. 1: The gender inequality index of countries and seven regions. a The map of analyzed countries with their gender inequality index, red color means higher inequality. b Gender inequality index for the seven regions, higher values mean higher inequality Full size image Statistical analysis The...
In one frequently cited study9, Christine Wennerås and Agnes Wold at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden found in 1997 that female applicants for postdoctoral fellowships had to score 2.5 times higher on an index of publication impact to be judged the same as men. Several groups, such ...
Gender Inequality in the Welfare State: Sex Segregation in Housework, 1965–2003 来自 NCBI 喜欢 0 阅读量: 71 作者: JenniferL.Hook 摘要: National context may influence sex segregation of household tasks through both pragmatic decision making and the normative context in which decision making is ...
At the country level, the degree of gender equality is estimated with the Gender Equality Index (GEI), which is an indicator calculated by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE, 2015). It comprehensively measures the degree of gender equality in the European Union in six core domains...
This paper proposes to measure and to evaluate gender gaps and gender inequalities by means of the decomposition of an inequality measure. A three-terms decomposition of the Gini index is applied, thus allowing to take into account also the role of overlapping between female and male subpopulations...
View the storymap:https://dane.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=3cf1a2caae9d4cd6954e84fa1a7ec9e9 2 Goal 2: Zero Hunger Mainstreaming Gender in Drought Forecasting to Support Sustainable Agriculture The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center/ SERVIR Mekong and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab...
Section BInequality Quantified: Mind the Gender Gap[A] Female scientists have made steady gains in recent decades but they face persistent career challenges. USuniversities and colleges employ far more male scientists than female ones and men earn significantlymore in science occupations.[B] As an ...
“人们认为STEM学科地位很高,所以很明显女性应该想(研究这些学科),如果她们不这样做,歧视肯定是唯一的原因。以护理为导向的职业地位并不高,因此人们认为男性不从事这些职业的原因是缺乏内在动力。”她补充说,男性的生活和决策也受到性别歧视观念和传统性别角色的影响,而人们对此缺乏认识。
University Impact Rankings for UN SDG 5: Gender Equality Times Higher Education has assessed and ranked 1,361 universities from 114 countries/regions on their contributions to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 5: gender equality. These un