Suchergebnisse

Access to Education and Gender Equality -- Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Through Women's Economic Empowerment -- Adolescence Empowerment, Sustainability and Gender Equality -- Adolescent Reproductive Health in South Asia: Issues and Challenges -- Affirmative Action Measures and Gender Equality: Review of Evidence, Policies, and Practices -- Artificial Intelligence, Gender, and Oppression -- Birth-Spacing: Achieving Gender Equality under Sustainable Development Goals -- Child Abuse in Relation to Girls -- Child Care Services: Possible Solutions to Improve Outcomes -- Child Marriage and Resistance Movements -- Child, Early, and Forced Marriage -- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women (Istanbul Convention) (2014) -- Creating and Enhancing Women Empowerment Through the Policing Profession -- Domestic Violence Against Women: Relevance, Reflections, and Public Policies -- Dowry System: Unequalizing Gender Equality -- Early and Child Marriage in India: A Framework to Achieve SDGs -- Ecofeminism -- Emotions, Rationality, and Gender.

Cover -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Literature Review -- III. Stylized Facts -- IV. Determinants of Gender Inequality-Frequentist Approach -- A. Empirical Specification -- B. Results -- V. Identifying Robust Determinants of Gender Inequality-Application of the Bayesian Model Averaging Approach -- VI. Quantifying the Effect of Policies Across Regions -- VII. Conclusions and Policy Implications -- References -- Tables -- 1. Determinants of the Gender Gap in Education -- 2. Determinants of the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation -- 3. Labor Market Protection and Labor Force Participation by Men and Women -- 4. Gender Gap in Education: A BMA Exercise: BMA Results -- 5. Determinant of Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation: BMA Results -- Figures -- 1. Determinants of Education Gaps -- 2. Determinants of Labor Force Participation Gaps -- 3. Quantifying the Drivers of Labor Force Participation Gaps across Regions -- 4. Quantifying the Impact of Policies on the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation across Regions -- Annexes -- I. Data -- II. Labor Market Protection Index

Gender Equality has not yet been achieved in many western countries. Switzerland in particular has failed as a forerunner in integrating women in politics and economy. Taking Switzerland as a case study, the authors critically reflect the state of gender equality in different policy areas such as education, family and labour. The collection of articles reveals how gender policies and cultural contexts interact with social practices of gender (in)equality. They also outline the gender(ed) effects of recent changes and reform strategies for scientists, politicians and practitioners.

End of discrimination against women and girls -- Elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls in the public and private spheres -- Womens' participation and equal opportunities for leadership at decision-making levels in political, economic and public life -- Access to reproductive health and reproductive rights -- Equal rights to economic resources -- Access to ownership and control over land, property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources -- Enhance use of enabling technology, information and communication technology

Taking the decade of the 1970s as a starting point, this article reviews the progress that has been made in improving women's status and reducing gender inequalities, and charts the challenges ahead. Emphasises the situation of women in developing countries, where the gaps are the largest and the challenges the greatest. (Original abstract - amended)