Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing...
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Gender & Development is a peer-reviewed journal published triannually by Routledge and Oxfam to provide "promote, inspire, and support development policy...
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The Gender Development Index (GDI) is an index designed to measure gender equality. GDI, together with the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), was introduced...
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constructs (i.e. gender roles) as well as gender expression. Most cultures use a gender binary, in which gender is divided into two categories, and people are...
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Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the...
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The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary...
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The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) was a nationally operated health clinic in the United Kingdom that specialised in working with children...
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Gender, Technology and Development (GTD) is a double blind peer-reviewed journal that serves as a forum for exploring the linkages between gender relations...
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sustainable development goals (SDG 5) of the United Nations; gender equality has not incorporated the proposition of genders besides women and men, or gender identities...
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of development aid. In the 1995 Human Development Report the United Nations Development Program introduced the Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment...
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of sex are congruent, and consistent with the individual's gender identity. Gender expression typically reflects a person's gender identity, but this is...
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role in the development of gender dysphoria. Gender identity is thought to likely reflect a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural...
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(2005). "Gender equality and women's empowerment: a critical analysis of the third millennium development goal". Gender and Development. 13 (Gender and Development):...
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inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) in its 2010 report, and in response to the latter the Gender Development Index (GDI) was introduced...
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would help measure gender equality, the United Nations has created two measures: the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure...
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While in ordinary speech, the terms sex and gender are often used interchangeably, in contemporary academic literature, the terms often have distinct meanings...
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The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality. GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure...
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The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development (GID) Database, or GID-DB, contains more than 60 data indicators of gender equality. The GID-DB was introduced...
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Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in which people are not treated equally on the basis of gender. This inequality can be caused by gender discrimination...
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Gender inequality in India refers to health, education, economic and political inequalities between men and women in India. Various international gender...
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measure gender equality, as well as a number of prominent indices. The most prominent indices of gender equality include UNDP's Gender-related Development Index...
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The GAD as perspective recognizes that gender concerns cut across all areas of development and therefore gender must influence government when it plans...
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to development of away from its initial goals of addressing equity. Later, the Gender and development (GAD) approach proposed more emphasis on gender relations...
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mainstream gender. More than half of bilateral finance for agriculture and rural development already mainstreams gender, but only 6 percent treats gender as fundamental...
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empowerment and participation as a necessary step if a country is to overcome the obstacles associated with poverty and development. Gender empowerment...
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enjoyment. Gender identity is crucial in the development of young individuals as it is a big part of their personal social identity. The confusion and questioning...
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exhibit gender variance may be called gender-variant, gender-nonconforming, gender-diverse, or gender-atypical. The terms gender variance and gender-variant...
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The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years...
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Gender analysis is a type of socio-economic analysis that uncovers how gender relations affect a development problem. The aim may just be to show that...
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a female gender identity and may experience gender dysphoria (distress brought upon by the discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their sex...
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