Planning and the Gender Equality Duty – why does gender matter?

Ecological footprint of university students: Does gender matter?

To determine if there is a gender difference in the resource consumption activities of students in Central Mindanao University, a Philippine state university, an ecological foot printing study was conducted in August 2014. Consumption data from 380 student respondents were gathered using a survey questionnaire. A web-based software created by the Global Footprint Network was used to convert the...

Gender equality: why is Brazil moving backwards?

1 Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná, Bandeirantes, Brasil. 2 Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. 3 Setor Estadual de Educação e Gênero, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, Curitiba, Brasil. 4 Grupo de Investigación de Salud Pública, Universidad de Alicante, CIBERESP, Alicante, España. 5 Coordenadoria de Programas Educacionais de ...

Gender equality and violent behavior: how neighborhood gender equality influences the gender gap in violence.

Using a sample of 703 African American adolescents from the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS) along with census data from the year 2000, we examine the association between neighborhood-level gender equality and violence. We find that boys' and girls' violent behavior is unevenly distributed across neighborhood contexts. In particular, gender differences in violent behavior are less pron...

Why Gender Equality is Important for All of the MDGs

Gender Equality and Democracy

Although democratic institutions existed long before gender equality, at this point in history, growing emphasis on gender equality is a central component of the process of democratization. Support for gender equality is not just a consequence of democratization. It is part of a broad cultural change that is transforming industrialized societies and bringing growing mass demands for increasingl...