scholarly journals Gender equality as a value of law

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Sergiy Petrenko ◽  
Andriy Kyrychenko ◽  
Dmytro Bilan ◽  
Anhelina Babyak ◽  
Yuliya Kostyuk
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Economic Politics ◽  
Reasonable Approach ◽  
Main Components ◽  
State Programs

The description of gender equality as the value of law in discourse of anthropological tendency is given in the article. Considered right to differences in the aspect of gender mainstreaming in law. The main components of gender equality are characterized. The article studies the regulatory foundation of the implementation and promotion of gender equality in Ukraine. Determination of the effectiveness of legal mechanisms aimed at its regulating, is based on the analysis of relevant legal acts. Based on the comparison of state programs, deficiencies and failures in this area, the direction of further improvement of legal regulation of gender equality in Ukraine, is determined. Awareness of the logical chain "human capital - human rights - gender equality - sustainable development - the progress and quality of life" dictates the importance of avoiding gender inequalities in the process of development. Gender equality is both the development objective and reasonable approach to economic politics, because development is seen as a process of expanding freedoms equally for every individual - for all women and men. The topicality of the question is primarily due to the fact that gender equality is important in itself, and also due to understanding that the emancipation of womens human development has a strong impact on work performance. That in its turn leads to increased economic efficiency, which is a condition for achieving other key development goals.

scholarly journals Measurement Invariance of the Sensitive Assessment for Gender Equality (SAGE) Index Across Degree: Findings from two Teacher Education Programmes in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Cristina Miralles-Cardona ◽  
Esther Chiner ◽  
María Cristina Cardona-Moltó​
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Elementary School Student

Western European countries have made impressive gender equality (GE) progress in education during the last few decades. Unfortunately, the implementation of gender mainstreaming (GM) in higher education has not been satisfactory. This paper describes a survey-based research study designed to explore student teachers’ perceptions of training for GE in teacher education (TE) using the Sensitive Assessment for Gender Equality (SAGE) index. The study firstly aims to analyse the factor invariance across degree of the SAGE and secondly tries to describe the status of GM implementation in teacher education programmes from students’ perspectives. Data were collected from 398 student teachers (84% female) aged 21.44, enrolled on two TE programmes from a public higher education institution in the Autonomous Region of Valencia (Spain). Using single and multi-group CFA the study revealed that the proposed three-factor structure of the SAGE fitted well to early childhood and elementary school student teachers’ data, thus suggesting equivalence between its components in both samples. Early childhood students scored significantly higher than elementary school student teachers in their reported perceptions of gender equality training and awareness of gender inequalities. Results will be displayed in terms of identifying institutional and curricular needs for GE education practices as findings reveal a clear demand for change.

Gender Mainstreaming and Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Alston
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
The Social

Women and girls are disproportionately impacted by climate change, not because of innate characteristics but as a result of the social structures and cultural norms that shape gender inequalities. Feminist activists and transnational organizations continue to voice their concerns regarding the need for greater attention to gender inequalities in the context of climate change. Gender mainstreaming is a policy process designed to address the gendered consequences of any planned actions—the ultimate aim being to achieve gender equality. Gender mainstreaming emerged in the late 1990s at the Beijing Women’s Conference as a result of the frustrations of feminist activists and international nongovernmental organizations about the lack of attention to gender equality. Yet its implementation has been hampered both by a lack of vision as to its purpose and by ongoing tensions, particularly between those who espouse equality and those who support the mainstream. This has led to resistance to gender mainstreaming within departments and units that are charged with its implementation, and indeed a reluctance of key players to commit to gender equality. Yet there is still strong support for the original feminist intent from activists and researchers addressing the impacts of climate change. The transformational potential of gender mainstreaming is still viewed as a process that could address and challenge gender inequalities in the context of increasing climate challenges. However, there are barriers that must be overcome for the transformational potential of gender mainstreaming to be realized. These include equating climate justice with gender justice, ensuring that the radical feminist intent of gender mainstreaming is not co-opted by the neoliberal agenda of maximizing economic development over gender equality and women’s empowerment, and ensuring that organizations tasked with facilitating gender mainstreaming not only understand its intent but also address gender inequalities within their own organizational structures and practices.

9. European Integration and Gender

2018 ◽  
pp. 174-194
Author(s):  
Yvonne Galligan
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Liberal Intergovernmentalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

This chapter analyses theories of European integration through a gender lens. It points to the diversity of perspectives in gender scholarship on European integration, and draws on these different points of view to examine other theoretical approaches. It assumes that gender is a basic organising principle of the social world, and therefore is an integral aspect of European integration. The chapter discusses gender theory and its contribution to the study of European integration. It then goes on to interrogate other European integration theories - liberal intergovernmentalism, neofunctionalism, and social constructivism – examining the nature of gendered power that they emphasize and evaluating the extent to which they are open to incorporating a gender-informed perspective. The chapter then analyses the integrationist effect of the European economic crisis on gender equality. This discussion reveals the marginalization of gender equality, and gender mainstreaming, as the neo-liberal response to the economic crisis created new gender inequalities and perpetuated old patterns of gender hierarchy.

MENDIDIK GENERASI DIGITAL NATIVE DI ERA PANDEMI

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helaluddin Helaluddin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The World

Implementation of the issue of gender equality in the higher education system is still become an interesting discourse to date. Higher education is considered to bey a key institution in promoting gender equality in society. This study is a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) which aims to describe the issues of gender equality in universities throughout the world in the period 2011 to 2020. There are four stages used in this study, those are indentification, screening, eligibility, and inclusion. Furthermore, data obtained from these stages are analyzed using content analysis techniques. The results of the analysis show that despite various laws and regulations regarding gender mainstreaming in college, in their implementation there are still many gender inequalities in various colleges.

scholarly journals Gender Audit for Gender Mainstreaming of Coastal and Marine Fishing Community of India

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 3337-3354
Author(s):  
Devaraj Asir Ramesh ◽  
M.V. Bindu ◽  
Nagarathinam Karthi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Government ◽  
Marine Fishing

Fisherwomen constitute 47% of the total adult coastal and marine fishing populations India.  They share major contribution in fishing of their families either directly or indirectly, especially in post-harvest and land based activities.  They have also been involved in passive fishing such as sea weed gathering, mussel collection, and prawn capturing in near shore coastal ecosystems.  The activities performed by fisherwomen in fishing are diverse and differs to those of men but significant for livelihood of their families.  Fisherwomen activities amount high in the share of economic contribution to coastal fishing in India.  The work performance of fisherwomen in fishing related activities are un-recognised or under recognised.  Gender biased discrimination such as access to resources, control over family; consumption pattern and freedom for domestic expenditure are prevalent in their family and community. Gender mainstreaming activities of the Government are merely recognised by the fishing community.  Gender inequality slows down the economic development and deepens poverty in fishing community. Inadequate recognition of fisherwomen’s contribution in fisheries shall hamper sustainable development process.  Gender equality is a basic of human right, and its achievement shall bring many long term positive changes in human development and socio-economic progress.  A gender audit assesses the extent to which gender equality is effectively institutionalised in the policies, programmes, schemes and in the corresponding budgets.  To measure the gender gap in coastal fisheries in India, Gender Inequality Index (GII) has been studied.  Accordingly, GII in fisheries is 0.618, which is comparatively higher than that of National average (0.563).  This paper discusses the gender gaps in fisheries and requisite gender mainstream activities for fisherwomen empowerment.

Femicide and Feminicide in Mexico: Patterns and Trends in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Regions

2021 ◽  
pp. 155708512110293
Author(s):  
Sonia M. Frías
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
International Attention

The killing of women in Mexico has attracted both national and international attention. Many of these homicides are regarded as feminicides, which are defined as the misogynistic killing of women for reasons of gender rooted in ideological and structural gender inequalities. This study examines changes and continuities in female homicides and femicides from 2001 to 2017 in indigenous and non-indigenous municipalities. Female homicides have increased at a higher rate than femicides, but the latter has increased at a higher rate in indigenous municipalities than in non-indigenous municipalities. This is associated with an increase in gender equality in a context of conflict and structural discrimination against indigenous peoples. Implications for future research and public interventions are discussed.

Human Potential of the Population of Russian Regions: the Level and Dynamics of Development (Part Two)

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
L. Migranova ◽  
M. Toksanbaeva
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Reproductive Structure ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Main Components

The Object of the Study. Human potential.The Subject of the Study. The level and dynamics of development of the human potential of the population of the RF subjects. The Purpose of the Study. Identifying differences in development of the human potential of the population of the RF subjects and opportunities for their reduction.The Main Provisions of the Article. Human potential and its development are considered article both as the purpose and the means of human progress reflecting extension of human opportunities including creative (resource) capabilities. Theoretical and instrumental interpretation of the main components of human potential based on its reproductive structure is analysed. The components include a demographic component, components of population health and education, and a sociocultural component. For estimation of human potential indicators for each of its component, as well as a methodology for both component-by-component and composite (aggregate of all components) calculations using the index method are proposed. The methodology is applied to all RF subjects using the Rosstat data for 2010 and 2015. On the basis of the obtained estimates the authors have identified the levels of human potential development in regions that enabling to range them by this level and analyze the direction of its changes in dynamics. Components have been found out a weak and strong impact on the composite estimates as well as specifics of this impact by groups of regions. It has been established that demographic and health components leave much to be desired, particularly in northern regions characterized by harsh natural climatic conditions of life in particular.In North Caucasus regions the problem of raising educational level of population has not lost its relevance. It is shown that despite the general growth in the level of human potential development in most subjects of the Russian Federation over the period in question it remains insufficient for implementing modernization processes in some regions.

Attitude of Individuals First Entering Labour Market to the Implementation of Equality of Treatment Principle in Labour Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Eglė Štareikė ◽  
Ugnė Alaburdaitė
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Treatment Principle ◽  
Scientific Doctrine

By invoking scientific doctrine, legal regulations and official statistics, the paper aims at assessing the actual position of females and males in labour relations in Lithuania as well as identifying the problems of the legal regulation of gender equality. The survey conducted among MRU Public Security Academy students was dedicated to disclosing the perceptions of individuals first entering the labour market about (in)equality in labour relations and experiences in the course of professional practice. To attain these objectives, certain goals were set: analysis of multiple layers of the concept of equality, legal regulation of the principle of gender equality and its inclusion in labour relations and statutory service. Furthermore, the present paper considered various trends and patterns in the implementation of the gender equality principle in labour relations, based on the analysis of the data of the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson. Empirical research was carried out to assess the experience of students who had their professional practice in police headquarters in terms of gender inequality. Based on the performed survey that involved the students of MRU Public Security Academy, it should be concluded that the majority of students did not understand the different behaviours that could violate an individual’s rights in terms of the equality of men and women. When responding to certain questions, the majority of respondents indicated that gender inequality in Lithuania existed only to the extent it occurred naturally; however, when responding to other questions, the majority stated that there were numerous situations during their practice when they experienced discrimination (i.e. preferential treatment of one of the genders, abuse due to gender etc.). This can lead to the conclusion that violations of gender equality committed on certain grounds are perceived as a natural phenomenon resulting from natural differences between the sexes and because of this, certain flawed behaviour is justified. This results in fewer opportunities for individuals to report violations to responsible institutions and thus ensure the protection of their rights as well as to share their experiences with other individuals and, as a result, educate them.

Equal pay, equal access

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Global workforces are still impacted by gender inequalities – there remains a gender gap in pay, in access to roles of responsibility and in terms of work-life balance. A challenge facing gender equality in the workplace is an agreed definition – organizations, managers and employees have different social representations of gender equality and place differing levels of importance on different dimensions. This can affect implementation of gender equality policies in the workplace, which rely on the goodwill of individuals to put policy into practice. Organizations need to recognize which dimensions are most important to their workplace in order to successfully implement equality. Originality The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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