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040 _aAFVC
245 _a2020 Human development perspectives :
_btackling social norms - a game changer for gender inequalities
_cUnited Nations Development Programme
260 _bUnited Nations Development Programme,
_c2020
300 _aelectronic document (36 pages) ; PDF file
520 _aGender disparities are a persistent form of inequality in every country. Despite remarkable progress in some areas, no country in the world—rich or poor—has achieved gender equality. All too often, women and girls are discriminated against in health, in education, at home and in the labour market—with negative repercussions for their freedoms. This is the time for a reality check. The commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+25) provides an opportunity to reassess the path to gender equality and adjust actions to close gender gaps. The Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) measures how social beliefs obstruct gender equality in areas like politics, work, and education, and contains data from 75 countries, covering over 80 percent of the world’s population. The analysis reveals that, despite decades of progress closing the equality gap between men and women, close to 90 percent of men and women hold some sort of bias against women, providing new clues to the invisible barriers women face in achieving equality. According to the index, about half of the world’s men and women feel that men make better political leaders, and over 40 percent feel that men make better business executives and that men have more right to a job when jobs are scarce. 28 percent think it is justified for a man to beat his wife. The publication also includes the GSNI trends for 31 countries, representing 59 percent of the global population. The trends show that while in some countries there have been improvements, in others, attitudes appear to have worsened in recent years, signaling that progress cannot be taken for granted. (From the website). Record #6760
650 _aATTITUDES
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650 _aGENDER EQUALITY
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650 0 _93394
_aINTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
650 _aSTATISTICS
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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710 _94488
_aUnited Nations Development Programme
856 _uhttp://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hd_perspectives_gsni.pdf
856 _uhttp://hdr.undp.org/en/gsni
_zAccess the website
942 _2ddc
_cREPORT