Search Results - "gender inequalities"

Review of book Vianello, M., Hawkesworth, M. (eds.). Gender and Power. Towards Equality and Democratic Governance

BACKGROUND: Spending time on leisure is widely recognised as a significant source of enjoyable psychological experiences in daily life. However, cross-national studies on time use and gender inequalities frequently overlook the study of leisure. OBJECTIVE: This study has two principal objectives. Fi...

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The Worun: Feeling Safer by Design project addresses gender-based disparities in urban running among women in Chile, presenting a design-led solution to improve safety and reduce perceived vulnerability. This mixed-method study involved 177 participants and combined in-depth interviews, autoethnogra...

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Various research studies suggest that women and other vulnerable groups are the ones who were impacted most and who continue to suffer from the economic and social effects of the pandemic. However, these groups have often been omitted from the measures mitigating the pandemic impact due to their inv...

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IntroductionSecondary prevention after an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has the objective of improving quality of life, minimizing recurrence, and reducing morbidity and mortality. Despite European guidelines highlighting the importance of cardiovascular risk factor (CVRF) management and optimal...

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The rise of the platform economy has brought about crowdwork as a new form of flexible work where individuals solve specific problems or provide specific services or products in exchange for payment via online platforms. Survey data for crowdworkers in Germany collected by the 'Digital Future&#...

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In the society we live in today, when human rights are spoken about, the notions of female identity and of female human rights often occupy a large space in the various theoretical debates. One of the reasons for the continued prevalence of such notions is the unequal position of women in t...

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History confirms that there have always been women who resisted the effects of patriarchy; however, feminist movements gained greater strength and formal adherence by States especially from the 1970s onward. From the perspective of global initiatives, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...

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This paper investigates whether countries’ investments in financial inclusion, beyond what their economic capacity would predict, help mitigate gender and income-group gaps in financial opportunities. We construct a novel index, the Abnormal Financial Inclusion Index (<i>AbFII</i>), as t...

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This paper considers the position of women in the police profession in terms of domination of masculinity and the effects of the “glass ceiling”. Generally, these mechanisms create unequal opportunities and unequal treatment of women in the police and other predominantly male professions, and ov...

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Gender inequality in different levels and forms, for many years, it has attracted the attention of researchers, analysts and experts in various fields and there have been various interpretations and interpretations of it.  The changes resulting from the modernization of societies have increased awar...

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The potential of FinTech algorithms to decrease gender bias in credit decisions is limited by the impartiality of the data used to train them. If the data is partial or biased, the algorithmic decision-making process may also be discriminatory, exacerbating existing inequalities. In this study, the...

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The notion of the ideal worker entails being available at the employer’s discretion in terms of time. By contrast, the ability to set one’s own schedule is widely considered a cornerstone of work-life balance and job satisfaction. We provide causal evidence on the pecuniary and social valuation of d...

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As Indonesia adopts Islamic law, civil law, and customary law in its legal system, it is suspected that some serious issues emerge in its implementation. One of them is gender inequality issue in its inheritance law. While the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Wom...

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Human resource development can only be achieved by promoting female entrepreneurship. There is a very low level of female entrepreneurship in India, especially in rural areas, which has recently been a cause for concern. Women are now aware of their existence, privileges, and employment circumstance...

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<b>Background</b>: Child poverty is a critical issue that affects millions of children worldwide and represents a global issue. This article focuses on exploring the risk of child poverty and social exclusion across Europe, with Serbia being in a comparable position with respect to other...

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The article undertakes a gender analysis of small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurship in Japan to find out whether they affect gender inequality, women and economy; what women empowerment could bring to the development of SME, entrepreneurship and economy in Japan. To answer these questions...

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This research is about the implementation of gender mainstreaming policies in local governments in Indonesia since the enactment of Presidential Instruction No. 9 of 2000 on Gender Mainstreaming in National Development. After running for almost two decades, the implementation of gender mainstreaming...

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