Under the leadership of Kathleen Kuehnast, the Gender and Peacebuilding Initiative organises educational and training programs, events and publications in order to allow women to gain access to leadership positions and raise awareness on gender issues. Table of Contents 1 About 2 Building Iraqi Women’s Leadership Capacity 3 Sustainable Economies 4 Religion and Peacemaking 5 […]

“The world’s gone social. And women are more social than men.”  Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Forbes article April 2010 Table of Contents 1 Data 2 Mobile social networking 3 Usage 4 References 5 External links Data Recent studies have revealed that women use social networking sites (SNSs) more than men. Data collected by Google Ad […]

This article was written by Group 8 in , as part of the . Table of Contents 1 About: Gender and Sport 1.1 Why is it important to look at gender and sport? 2 Case Studies: 2.1 Women’s sport in Thailand 3 Situation and Women’s policy in Thailand 4 References 5 Group 8 About: Gender […]

The agriculture sector is underperforming in many developing countries and one of the key reasons is that women and men are not provided the same opportunities and cannot equally benefit from sustainable development and humanitarian interventions. Governments and the international community need to work together to eliminate this “gender gap” in order to achieve a […]

According to a 2008 study by psychologists, gender differences in personalities (the classic Mars versus Venus debate) becomes more pronounced in cultures with greater . In a series of studies by a group of researchers in , and published in the Journal of Personal and Social Psychology (2008), the gender differences in personalities widens depending […]

Experts suggest that most men and women need about seven to eight hours of sleep each night. Yet there are many differences in how men and women sleep. Women tend to sleep more on average but sleep less deeply and are more prone to sleep disorders, including insomnia. During their 20s and 30s, women also […]