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The same goes with gender equality.
Nowadays, gender equality has become the norm.
Some would argue that gender equality is a consequence of the modernization process, not of Westernization.
It should come as no surprise that as the Davos consensus has ebbed, a wave of populist nativism – often suffused with racism, religious or ethnic intolerance, misogyny, and gender bias – has rushed in.
Expanded access to renewable energy would benefit African countries in many other ways, too, such as by reducing poverty, improving gender equality, enhancing sanitation, and limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.
Screening entails the mass testing of individuals of a certain age and gender, regardless of family history or personal health, to identify a potential disease state.
Worldwide, more than a billion women confront grinding and overt gender discrimination in education, nutrition, health care, and salaries.
In the global debate about work, family, and the promise of gender equality, no society is exempt.
But a gender gap will also have to be closed: worldwide, about 200 million fewer women than men have mobile phones or Internet access.
Financial inclusion is vital for inclusive economic growth and gender equality, and it has assumed a prominent role in global development efforts, with the World Bank aiming for universal financial inclusion by 2020.
People’s social allegiances are divided further by religion, race, occupation, gender, and even income bracket.
Likewise, the so-called Open Working Group called on the world to “increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely, and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.”
Wastewater management is thus a central feature of the AfDB’s strategic priorities, known as the High 5s, which aim to improve Africans’ quality of life, boost public health, achieve gender equality, create jobs, and increase communities’ resilience to the effects of climate change.
Of course, the issue is broader: If you are a recovering alcoholic, make a pass at someone of the same gender, have a gambling problem, suffer from bipolar illness, or have had a conversation with your accountant about your taxes that skirted what was proper, are you ready to be “outed”?
For example, in the standard economic analysis of workplace gender discrimination, men do not like to associate with women on the job – in the same way that they might prefer apples to oranges.
But neither gender nor racial discrimination arises from purely personal preferences.
For example, in the case of gender, those who identify as men also want to behave as men are supposed to behave; those who identify as women want to behave as women are supposed to behave.
But we can explain it if we ask how people think about themselves – that is, if we examine changes in gender norms.
The gender gap that has benefited the Democratic Party is attributable mainly to struggling working-class and pink-collar women; someone on Clinton’s staff needs to tell her to stop offending them.
Most American women are having a hard enough time on the factory floor or the unemployment line or making minimum wage at Wal-Mart; when working-class women hear a former corporate attorney carry on about a glass ceiling, they think not about gender identification but about the class divide that has widened since the term came into vogue in the 1980s.
Why Gender Parity MattersBERKELEY – The high cost of gender inequality has been documented extensively.
The most developed regions of Europe and North America are closest to gender parity, while the still-developing region of South Asia has the furthest to go.
One overarching conclusion of the McKinsey study is that, despite progress in many parts of the world, gender inequality remains significant and multi-dimensional.
Forty of the countries studied still exhibit high or very high levels of gender inequality in most aspects of work – especially labor-force participation rates, wages, leadership positions, and unpaid care work – as well as in legal protections, political representation, and violence against women.
Closing the gender gap in labor-force participation would deliver 54% of those gains; aligning rates of part-time work would provide another 23%; and shifting women into higher-productivity sectors to match the employment pattern of men would account for the rest.
Given recent rates of progress, it is unrealistic to expect full gender parity in the world of work in the foreseeable future.
It is certainly in the interest of companies to do more to support gender equality, which expands the pool of talent from which they can select employees and managers.
One of the highest barriers to gender parity, however, may be deeply held beliefs and attitudes.
Clearly, reaching gender parity will be no easy feat.
Recently, the Copenhagen Consensus project gathered eight of the world’s top economists – including five Nobel laureates – to examine research on the best ways to tackle 10 global challenges: air pollution, conflict, disease, global warming, hunger and malnutrition, lack of education, gender inequity, lack of water and sanitation, terrorism, and trade barriers.
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