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The Millennium Development Goals

 Overview In 2000, global leaders gathered at the United Nations launched a plan of action intended to fight poverty in all its forms. To this end, they set eight goals known as “the Millennium Development Goals “(MDGs) to be achieved by 2015: The MDGs were complemented by a series of 18 quantifiable targets measured by […]

The Gender Wage Gap

Background and definitions There is no country in the world in which women and men receive equal pay for equal work (World Economic Forum, 2015). Wage differentials reflect the vast inequalities between women and men on the labour market and in society at large. There are several definitions of the gender wage gap: The OECD […]

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Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Women’s under-representation in STEM Despite the significant gains made by women in higher education in the past decades, there is still a gender gap when it comes to the fields that men and women choose to study (OECD, 2015). While women now represent 58 % of university graduates in OECD countries, they are significantly under-represented […]

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Making sense of land statistics and gender

“Making sense of Land, Statistics and Gender”, a new infographic by the Gender and Land Rights database (GLRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) explores the correct use of land ownership statistics (ownership understood in a broad sense beyond individual property […]

Women Deliver

Women Deliver’s 4th Global Conference, taking place 16-19 May 2016, will be the largest gathering on girls’ and women’s health and rights in the last decade and one of the first major global conferences following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will gather 5-6,000 people and inspire global changemakers to focus on implementing the SDGs so they matter […]

April 2016

Boardroom Quotas: The Slow Pace of Gender Equality in Corporate Germany (Thomas Reuters 27.04.2016) Lack of access to abortion leaves women in poverty (The Guardian 27.04.2016) Push to ward off disasters in Dhaka slum deters early marriage (Thomas Reuters 25.04.2016) Girls in Guinea cut at earlier age as female support for FGM rises – UN (Thomas Reuters 25.04.2016) Women […]

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LESSONS FROM THE PEPFAR GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE INITIATIVE IN THREE COUNTRIES

May 10, 2016  9:30 am – 2:00 pm Center for Strategic and International Studies Washington, DC REGISTER HERE Please join the PEPFAR Gender and Adolescent Girls Technical Working Group and AIDSFree as they share lessons from the three-year, $55 million Gender-based Violence Initiative (GBVI). The GBVI integrated gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response into existing HIV prevention, […]

2016 MDB Global Summit

“Stereotypes and Opportunities: Women’s Economic Empowerment”  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank Group (WBG) invite credentialed media to attend and cover the opening of a two-day global conference on women’s economic empowerment, bringing together 200 leading experts from more than 20 countries: WHO: Luis Alberto Moreno, Inter-American Development Bank President and Jim Yong […]

EuroGender Network: online discussion on gender statistics gaps

The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) invites you to participate in an online discussion on how to tackle and address gender statistics gaps within the framework of EU policies. The event takes place on EuroGender, the 15 June, 10.00 am – 16.00 CEST. If you have an expertise in gender statistics and/or data collection on gender […]

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