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UN Women snapshot: indigenous women

supports the efforts of indigenous women who are bringing change in their communities worldwide through the Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF), which it administers on behalf of the UN system. Visual on Indigenous Women by UN Women by UNWomen. Explore more infographics like this […]

Transsexual

Transsexualism, also termed ‘Gender Dysphoria’,  is a condition in which individuals identify with a physical sex different from the one with which he or she was born. Transsexuality differs from the commonly associated terms “crossdressing” or “Transvestitism”, as well as “”. A medical diagnosis can be made if a person experiences discomfort as a result of […]

Transgender

Transgender means self-identification as a different gender than that with which an individual has been biologically identified and/or socially labeled.The term overlaps with but differs from , which refers specifically to persons who identify as the opposite sex, who often take sex hormones and have sex reassignment surgery. Fear or loathing of transgendered persons leading to mistreatment […]

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  

Rape

Rape, also referred to as sexual assault, is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with another person without that person’s consent. Rape includes both psychological coercion as well as physical force. Attempted rape includes verbal threats of rape. Rape is generally considered a serious sex crime, as well as a civil assault. It […]

Widow

A widow is a woman whose husband has died. A man whose wife has died is a widower. A widow can be especially socially vulnerable in some countries due to the lack of protection of a male figure, and sometimes face significant economic problems as a result. In other societies, widows can carry on her […]

Wikigender Progress Series

Table of Contents 1 About Wikigender Progress Series 2 About Wikiprogress 3 Wikiprogress topics 4 List of progress-related articles 5 External links About Wikigender Progress Series A series of progress-related articles, in line with the topics of www.wikiprogress.org. About Wikiprogress Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information in order to evaluate societal progress. It is […]

One child policy

Definition The one-child policy (simplified Chinese: 计划生育政策; pinyin: jìhuà shēngyù zhèngcè; literally “policy of birth planning”) is the population control policy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Initiated in 1979, this policy aimed at alleviating social, economic, and environmental problems in China.It urged that married urban couples can have one child, with the exemptions […]

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