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As Anna Vassall, Michelle Remme, and Charlotte Watts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine pointed out,
gender
inequalities and domestic violence are both associated with a significant increase in risk of HIV infection.
So, if
gender
training programs were to piggyback on current income-boosting microfinance and agricultural-support programs, we could undermine norms about
gender
roles that entrench women’s dependence on men or condone domestic violence.
But while
gender
is a strong marker for how Americans think about certain issues, it is not the best predictor of how they will vote.
It turns out that female candidates do not face a single
gender
gap, but rather multiple
gender
gaps.
But this still does not mean that the
gender
gap tells us much as a first-order factor, especially if we consider other gaps among demographic groups.
As it happens, they were also more predictive than
gender.
And if we look just at Republican voters, the
gender
gap vanishes almost entirely: 91% of Republican women and 92% of Republican men voted for Trump.
This all points not to a single
gender
dynamic, but to one refracted through multiple social and economic lenses.
We know that Republican women voted according to their party affiliation and not their
gender.
This strategy’s success indicates one way that
gender
can play a role in voter decision-making.
As long as female candidates are forced to meet multiple, contradictory
gender
expectations, the US will never close the most prominent gap of all: that between America and the many countries that have already chosen a woman to lead them.
The rational for affirmative action in those early years was the fact that, after a long history of systemic injustice, merely outlawing discrimination based on race or
gender
would not ensure equal opportunity for all.
Ghebreyesus is also a longtime champion and advocate of
gender
equality and the rights of women and girls.
These include “vertical inequalities,” like skewed income distribution, as well as “horizontal inequalities,” such as those that exist within groups because of factors like race, gender, and ethnicity, and those that form between communities, owing to residential segregation.
For example, it can be difficult to lower rates of infection in countries where
gender
inequality prevents women from making decisions about when, where, and even with whom they have sex.
Only by linking HIV strategies to the issues that predispose people to infection – such as poverty, education, and
gender
bias – can we hope for a future free from AIDS for everyone, everywhere.
The Unfinished Business of
Gender
ParityDAVOS – When it comes to the importance of
gender
equality in the workplace, the message has clearly gotten through to those at the top.
The vast majority recognize the issue as imperative to their companies’ success and have implemented measures to promote
gender
parity in their organizations.
And yet, for all the fine words, much more remains to be done before
gender
parity is actually achieved.
Tackling
gender
inequality will require us to identify where, how, and why these biases materialize, and to develop systematic strategies and interventions to root them out.
Not only do women make up half the global population; the same skills needed to work through differences in
gender
– open-mindedness, humility, empathy – can be used to work across other types of differences, be they cultural, physical, or personal.
It is important, of course, to reassure male skeptics who view
gender
parity as a threat.
Addressing such concerns will require us to show that we are not promoting some people at the expense of others;
gender
parity must be win-win, not zero-sum.
At PwC, this is being addressed by hosting conversations in which men and women discuss
gender
issues collaboratively and respectfully, and by working with both genders to challenge double standards and acknowledge potential blind spots.
Recent research suggests that, at the current rate of progress, it will take another 80 years to reach
gender
parity.
Kurds have a much more egalitarian view of
gender
relations than either Sunnis or Shi’ites.
But now might be an ideal moment to tackle that challenge, given the attention currently being paid to improving pay equity, which includes closing the
gender
pay gap, confronting rising income inequality, and reducing the ratio of CEOs’ compensation to that of the median employee.
And there are still too many disparities based on gender, location, wealth, disability, and other markers of marginalization.
In fact, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) finds that Asia-Pacific economies could boost their collective GDP by $4.5 trillion per year by 2025, just by accelerating progress toward
gender
equality.
But equality at work goes hand in hand with
gender
equality in society.
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