Gender equality in education has held a prominent position in global policy making over the last decade through international frameworks and declarations such as the Dakar Framework of Action on Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper draws on interviews conducted with participants who hold a gender brief in international organisations, active in the global Edu...

This tipsheet summarises strategies which have worked in practice, based on findings from a review of 85 evaluations undertaken by bilateral and multilateral agencies from 1999 to 2002. There was a great deal of consistency in evaluation reports about the most effective strategies for addressing gender equality issues, regardless of the type of assistance, the donor agency, the partner country ...

This paper explores the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR), or the commitment of business to contribute to sustainable development, on gender equality in a sample of Latin American companies using the capability approach as a framework. By applying this approach, CSR is defined as a social conversion factor which has the potential of enabling people’s capabilities and functionings ...

Sweden represents an interesting paradox in regards to egalitarian matters. It is considered one of the most egalitarian countries in the world, with strong norms about gender equality, and repeatedly ranks favourably and near the top of various measures of gender equality (e.g., Hausmann, Tyson, & Zahidi, 2012). There is a higher educational attainment for women than men, extensive legal and f...

Background High rates of violence and HIV have been documented within the South African context. Constructions of masculinity and femininity that position men as dominant and highly sexually active and women as subordinate and acquiescent have been found to contribute towards gender inequality. This inequality is in turn related to negative health consequences, specifically violence against wom...

How can information and communication technologies (ICT) be used to promote gender equality in developing nations and to empower women? This essay seeks to deal with that issue, and with the gender effects of the “information revolution.” While obvious linkages will be mentioned, the essay seeks to go beyond the obvious to deal with some of the indirect causal paths of the information revolutio...

In this review article, we argue that the transformations related to modernisation of Portuguese society triggered by implementation democracy did not fully accommodate gender equality. particular, when consider areas where most progress has been made in keeping with a broadly shared urge for modernisation, education and science; whereas women have contributed boosting population’s level educat...

This paper introduces the “Gendercheck Editor”, a tool to check German texts for gender discriminatory formulations. It relays on shallow rule-based techniques as used in the Controlled Language Authoring Technology (CLAT). The paper outlines major sources of gender imbalances in German texts. It gives a background on the underlying CLAT technology and describes the marking and annotation strat...

Expertise in ICT is scattered across globally. Mobility of the researchers, the effective way of imparting knowledge from people with expertise in a specialised branch of area has not yet been fully studied. The gender imbalance in ICT education has been reduced in the recent past; however in the higher level such as R & D, inequality exists considerably. The dependence of women on men hinders ...