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Son preference in China

Despite the old Chinese proverb according to which “Women hold up half the sky”, Chinese families prefer having sons instead of daughters. As a consequence, China faces nowadays millions of missing women, as many of its neighbouring countries. Son preference is often considered as a recent phenomenon whereas it is an old characteristic of the […]

Son Preference

Son preference reflects the economic valuation of women, based on information on the number of “” in a country. Missing women, a concept suggest by economist , measures gender bias in mortality due to sex selective abortions or insufficient health care to baby girls. See also External Links www.oecd.org/dev/gender/sigi  

Solar Sister

Table of Contents 1 Presentation 2 A success story 3 Future developments 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Presentation Of the 1.6 billion people that don’t have access to electricity in the world, 70% are women and girls.Solar Sister: Bringing a market based, gender inclusive, bottom up clean energy revolution to Africa , […]

Social Watch

Social Watch is an international network informed by national citizens’ groups aiming at following up the fulfillment of internationally agreed commitments on poverty eradication and equality. These national groups report, through the national Social Watch report, on the progress – or regression – towards these commitments and goals. The Social Watch groups, organized on an […]

The Social Institutions and Gender Index (2009)

The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a of gender equality, introduced by the . It solely focuses on that have an impact on the equality between men and women. Social institutions comprise norms, values and attitudes that exist in a society in relation to women. Table of Contents 1 What are social institutions? […]

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