within these countries. There has been a considerable increase in education in low income countries over the last three decades (World Bank‚ 2001). While economic growth is essential for development‚ this is hardly an end in itself. In order to derive benefits of growth‚ it is important to recognize the interdependence between social and economic policies and promote their integration. Unfortunately social sector development has been an area of neglect by successive governments over a long period
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forces: political commitment at international and national level is essential to institute policies that can trigger social change and to allocate the resources necessary to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. Goal number 3 of the Millennium Development Goals {MDGs} focuses on promoting gender equality and empowerment of women. The specific target under this goal is to eliminate gender disparity in primary and in all levels of education not later than 2015. The UN Millennium Project‚
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Count: 4564 Gender Equality in Education and Poverty Reduction Abstract This paper discusses the concept of gender equality‚ its application in national development plan and in education in Nepal. It gives the glimpse of gender parity and equality situation in education. It also shares the reasons achieving EFA as well as MDGs goals and thereby analyzes the causes of not achieving gender equality in education. It advocates for application of substantive equality – equality in outcome - approach
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BARRIERS TO GENDER EQUALITY IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION Gender mainstreaming is a synthesizing concept that addresses the well being of women and men. It is a strategy that is central to the interests of the whole community. The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 1995 pushed the dialogue on gender mainstreaming to the fore at an international level and was endorsed by the 1995 Beijing
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Daughter of Eve is in Trouble in Pakistan Gender Equality Remains A Myth Women Are Marginalized in Pakistan. Parity of Women with Men But Only in Books Not in Reality Women Empowerment is A Dream Far From Reality Female Gender Discrimination is Deteriorating the Process of Social Amelioration Outline: Introduction: What is Gender Inequality: A) Women are suffering from social injustice in education opportunities‚ health facilities‚ social prestige‚ property inheritance and religious esteem
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Intro to Sociology Olatunde Merriman-Johnson 10/3/12 Economic Inequality The current level of economic inequality can be in fact considered acceptable. The word acceptable by definition is to be cable or worthy of being accepted; pleasing‚ satisfying‚ or agreeable by the receiver. And in that case‚ someone who is on the beneficial side of the inequality usually doesn’t have a problem with it. For example‚ if there was a rule that said all football players can skip the lunch line‚ majority
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GENDER EQUALITY WILL REMAIN LOFTY DREAM IN PAKISTAN The topic revoles around the inequality of rights of every person‚if a men or a women are considered to be equal them their rights are also exactly same. Because being equal is to be recognized as fully equal in every aspects of life .Its true that both gender have differences but should be equally valued. Equally rights are extremely importan in every factor .Because we want to be same it is also fair . Now we would talk about the gender
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Escape Through the Glass Ceiling Equality in the workforce. A symbol of progression for the female gender? Or a taboo of the working woman who ‘thinks’ she has it all? In recent discussion of equality in wages among women in the workforce‚ a controversial issue has been whether women have progressed in society or do they still face the glass ceiling by enduring wage discrimination. On the one hand‚ some argue that women have come a long way. From the perspective of Christina Hoff Sommers‚ American
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Gender equality‚ also known as sex equality‚ sexual equality or equality of the genders‚ refers to the view that men and women should receive equal treatment‚ and should not be discriminated against based on gender‚ unless there is a sound biological reason for different treatment. This is the objective of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ which seeks to create equality in law and in social situations‚ such as in democratic activities and securing equal pay for equal work
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FIELD EXPERIMENTS IN ECONOMICS By: Ravisha Sodha INTRODUCTION: Field experiments occupy an important middle ground between laboratory experiments and naturally occurring field data. The underlying idea behind most field experiments is to make use of randomization in an environment that captures important characteristics of the real world. Distinct from traditional empirical economics‚ field experiments provide an advantage by permitting the researcher to create exogenous variation in the variables
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