Social norms

#HowICare Campaign June 18-24 2020

The SIGI shows that women undertake 75% of the unpaid care and domestic work worldwide, and more must be done to recognise, redistribute and reduce this time burden on women. The #HowICare Campaign Promundo and Oxfam’s #HowICare Campaign is an opportunity for a wide variety of voices to demand, together, a transformation of the gendered dynamics […]

Climate Change and Tunisia’s Tozeur Oases: An opportunity to boost women’s leadership and economic activity

Article proposed and written by Euro – Mediterranean Women’s Foundation’s Secretary Publication date: 28 October 2019   [toc] Introduction  In its latest report ‘’The Global Climate in 2015–2019’’, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that global warming is accelerating, so are the associated features such as the sea level rise, the shrinking sea ice, glacier […]

OECD High-Level Conference on Ending Violence Against Women

Violence against women remains a global pandemic. Worldwide, more than one out of three women have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. OECD Ministers increasingly recognize that violence against women is a crisis in their countries. The OECD Gender Equality Questionnaire illustrated that governments prioritise this issue […]

International Congress on Social Diversity 2016

Location November 25, 2016 University of Castile-La Mancha Toledo, Spain Conference Aim The main aim of this congress is to promote high quality interdisciplinary research in all sub-areas of Social Diversity, including disability, gender, social integration, social responsibility, ethical and religious diversity or educational diversity management. Conference Topics Disability Gender Sexual orientation Culture, ethnicity, race, […]

Speech: The economic cost of violence against women

Council of Women World Leaders high-level discussion at UN General Assembly Remarks by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD New York, 21 September 2016 (As prepared for delivery)     Your Excellency Dalia Grybauskaite, Excellencies, Ministers, dear colleagues,   It is a great privilege to be here alongside world leaders who are working to end violence against […]

Online Discussion on proposed indicators for data collection on femicide, rape and intimate partner violence

What The online discussion is organised in the context of EIGE’s Study on terminology and indicators used in data collection on femicide, rape and intimate partner violence carried out by the contractor Milieu Ltd. The study aims to address the lack of comparable and reliable EU-wide data on violence against women. If you have expertise […]

Matriarchy

Matriarchy (or gynecocracy) refers to a gynecocentric form of society, in which the leading role is taken by the women and especially by the mothers of a community. Strongly matrilocal societies sometimes are referred to as matrifocal, and there is some debate concerning the terminological delineation between matrifocality and matriarchy. Even in societies that are […]

Machismo

Machismo is a prominently exhibited or excessive masculinity.  As an attitude, machismo ranges from a personal sense of  virility to a more extreme male chauvinism. In machismo there is supreme valuation of characteristics culturally associated with the masculine and a denigration of characteristics associated with the feminine. Its manifestation can include , , , and […]

Health Risks of Child Marriage

There are numerous health risks for women associated with . In , for example, researchers have found increased rates of , poorer child health, and higher levels of . Table of Contents 1 The Study 2 Child Marriage and Poorer Fertility 3 Recommendations 4 References 5 See also The Study The Boston University School of […]

Unpaid Care Work

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Understanding unpaid care work 2.1 Defining Unpaid Care work 2.2 Measuring Unpaid Care work 3 Economic Impact 4 International Framework 5 Unpaid Care in the Development Agenda 6 References 7 See also 8 External links Introduction Care work is carried out across the globe every day and is essential […]

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