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Gender Roles in Modern Society - One World Education

Based on a survey done on Debate.org, some people believe that gender-specific expectations are necessary because each gender has jobs they fulfill in society; ...

16 Facts About Gender-Based Violence | By Global Citizen - Facebook

The WHO has called violence against women a "global health problem of epidemic proportions." | woman, fact.

Gender Differences in Voter Turnout

Women have registered and voted at higher rates than men in every presidential election since 1980, with the turnout gap between women and men growing slightly ...

Sexism in Sport

Gender stereotyping is alive and kicking. · There's a mental health crisis in teenage girls. · Women in midlife are suffering from the cumulative impact of ...

13 facts you need to know about gender inequality in the EU

Women constitute half the population. Find the survey about her position in society. Gender Equality. Authors. Progressive Post.

Gender Equality - An incomplete success - Denmark

Denmark has also taken a leading role in fighting gender based violence (GBV) in situations of crisis and conflict. GBV is the international term describing ...

Effects of gender discrimination on mental and physical health

As the World Health Organization (WHO) notes, gender inequality is also a risk factor for gender-based violence. ... This is despite the fact ...

10 FACTS ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Both the World Health Organization and the Public Health Agency of Canada have recognized gender-based violence as a significant public health issue. Women ...

Get the Facts on Gender-Affirming Care - Human Rights Campaign

Gender affirming care is always delivered in age-appropriate, evidence-based ... Topics: Transgender · Laws & Legislation · State & Local ...

Gender role | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica

Gender roles are culturally and socially determined sets of expected behaviors, attitudes, and characteristics based on concepts of masculinity and ...

What are some hard facts about gender differences? - Quora

Scientists even call this the Gender Equality Paradox, based on all types of longitudinal studies across dozens of countries, they found out ...

HHS Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of the U.S. National Plan to ...

As a Department, HHS recognizes that gender-based violence is a complex public health problem that requires research-driven, survivor-centered ...

The gender gap in employment: What's holding women back?

Women who want to work have a harder time finding a job than men. This problem is particularly marked in Northern Africa and the Arab States, where unemployment ...

The link between gender inequality and violence against women

Men are more commonly the perpetrators of physical violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence. Men experience violence mostly from male strangers, in ...

Gender Inequality in Education - Outreach International

While the gender gap has been closing in recent years, disparities persist, especially in low-income countries, remote regions, and areas around ...

Gender Equality: The Key to Ending Violence Against Women

any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats ...

Equality Now - We use the law to change the world. Join us.

A lack of legal equality promotes violence and discrimination, yet almost every country in the world has laws that treat people differently on the basis of sex ...

The Gender Pay Gap - AAUW

Women working full time in the US are paid 84% of what men earn. At the current rate of change, we won't achieve pay equality until 2088.

Why gender inequality often starts at home - Plan Canada

These differences and assigned roles based on sex, also known as the “gender binary”, become unquestioned rationale for many ideas about what boys, girls ...

Gender equality | OECD

It drives economic growth, strengthens democracy, enhances social cohesion and increases the well-being of all members of society. But despite progress in ...