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NORBERG, MARIA. "Gender Equality across Global Organizations: Towards a Framework for Increasing Gender Equality." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-240672.

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The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze how Global Organizations work with Gender Equality, what type of challenges they experience and how they can be addressed. Secondarily, it addresses how Global Organizations can create an international Gender Equality strategy and how Gender Equality work differs among four countries. Earlier research has focused on gender equality as a stand-alone topic, and few models exist to incorporate such work in global organizations that efficiently manages to address the complexity of gender equality across varying cultures and business units. By surveying
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Brazzarola, Anna <1995&gt. "Sviluppo sostenibile and Gender Equality." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18622.

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La tesi sviluppa il tema del Gender inequality o disuguaglianza di genere, il quinto dei diciassette obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile dell’Agenda 2030 che ancora oggi presenta le maggiori lacune. In questo elaborato, dopo aver introdotto nel primo capitolo lo sviluppo sostenibile, i suoi pilastri e la sua evoluzione nel tempo, andremo ad approfondire proprio l’SDG n.5 andando a toccare alcuni dei moltissimi temi riguardanti le differenze di trattamento tra uomo e donna prendendo in considerazione diversi ambiti. La parte centrale della tesi analizza tre indicatori comunemente utilizzati per m
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Falkung, Annie. "The Europeanization of gender equality : A study on EU influence on Swedish gender equality legislation." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-18124.

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Sweden has since the membership of the European Union established a new Discrimination act and this thesis aim is to discuss if the EU could be a factor that influenced Sweden to that change. This is done through a discussion of how the EU is mentioned in the preparatory works. Preparatory works are used by the Swedish government in policy making before deciding on a new law and is to give a better understanding to the theoretical background and how the policy-making process deals with the effects of the EU policy at national level. To help explain how the EU could be an influential factor the
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Sörlin, Ann. "Health and the elusive gender equality : Can the impact of gender equality on health be measured?" Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Epidemiologi och global hälsa, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-46298.

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Background: All over the world men and women show different health patterns, and therecan be many and various reasons for these differences. This thesis therefore evaluates theimpact of gender equality on health. To do this, we must be able to measure gender equality.In this thesis, we develop two new measurements of gender equality and evaluate the relationshipbetween gender equality and health. Methods: Two cross-sectional studies, one register-based and one survey study, are used tocompare different measurements of gender equality and different measurements of health,and the relationship be
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Paakkulainen, Karoliina. "Promoting gender equality through EU law." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-127739.

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Styodana, Asya. "Challenges on implementing gender equality policy." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52329.

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Striving for gender equality in private organisations has become a critical issue that is important to women, organisational leaders, organisations and has gained credence on a national level. Preliminary research indicated that the advancement of women to decision making roles in private organisations remains slow. This led to the exploration of reasons for private organisations challenges in implementing gender equality policies effectively. This research report mainly explored the existing literature on gender equality, the quota system, organisational and leadership roles in promoting gen
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Baker, Marzena. "Gender equality in project-based organisations." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205245/1/Marzena_Baker_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis is a mixed methods research study that focuses on the evaluation of gender equality in the project-based organisations. It aimed to explore how gender equality initiatives affect representation of women at various levels of organisations and to understand the impact of women’s representation on organisational outcomes. It also aimed to explore the issues of selection and implementation of HR initiatives designed to address equality and diversity. This research extends our knowledge of the effectiveness of gender equality initiatives on women’s representation and the organisational
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Pivetta, Michela <1990&gt. "Corporate social responsibility and gender equality." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16241.

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The purpose of this thesis is to present an overview of the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and gender equality. By analysing the concept of social responsibility of the corporation and the barriers mostly encountered by women in the workplace, it shows how Corporate Social Responsibility might help in organizational and social change.
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Bishop, Christopher J. "Exploring Gender Roles and Gender Equality within the Evangelical Church." Thesis, Chapman University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13814514.

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<p>This research aims to facilitate better understanding of perceptions of gender roles and gender equality among members of the Evangelical Church and to determine whether these perceptions differ by gender. The evangelical community?s ideologies and values have come to shape social and political dialogues within the United States. A key component of the faith is understanding the role each member plays within his or her family unit and community at large. The evangelical faith?s organizational structure and ideologies are informed by a patriarchal model that?s placed women at internal and st
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Bishop, Christopher. "Exploring Gender Roles and Gender Equality within the Evangelical Church." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/education_dissertations/1.

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This research aims to facilitate better understanding of perceptions of gender roles and gender equality among members of the Evangelical Church and to determine whether these perceptions differ by gender. The evangelical community’s ideologies and values have come to shape social and political dialogues within the United States. A key component of the faith is understanding the role each member plays within his or her family unit and community at large. The evangelical faith’s organizational structure and ideologies are informed by a patriarchal model that’s placed women at internal and struc
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Forti, Sarah. "Refocusing gender equality on gender justice : a critique of the politics of gender equality interpretation in the field of international development assistance." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589947.

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'Refocusing Gender Equality on Gender Justice: A Critique of the Politics of Gender Equality Interpretation in the Field of International Development Assistance' is a critical analysis of the interpretation of gender equality in the field of IDA. The various interpretations examined are extracted from key spheres composing the field of IDA, such as the theory, international legislation and international policy, donor and national policy and the programme sphere at field level.
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Böhlen, Marc-André, and Thierry Hirschi. "Chocolate, Cheese and Gender Equality? : How Switzerland’s national culture influences the implementation of gender equality policies in companies." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-74875.

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Gender equality is one of the most topical issues of all. Many researchers around the world are addressing the issue of equal opportunities in the labour market and are looking for ways to ensure this in all sectors of the economy. This paper addresses this issue and aims to gain a deep understanding of the influence of a national culture on the implementation of gender equality policies within companies. With the help of a qualitative research method, the various factors of culture were examined and their relationship to the gender-specific understanding of a society analysed. The findings sh
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Doucet, Andrea. "Gender equality, gender differences and care : towards understanding gendered labour in British dual earner households." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260429.

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Heinrich, Richard Felix. "A Gender Equality Comparison Switzerland and Norway /." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/05610068002/$FILE/05610068002.pdf.

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Campa, Pamela. "Media Influence on Pollution, and Gender Equality." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-89274.

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This thesis consists of three essays. The first essay, "Press and Leaks: Do Newspapers Reduce Toxic Emissions?", uses data on plant-level emissions in 2001-2009 from the Toxic Release Inventory of the US Environmental Protection Agency, coupled with data on location and content of newspapers, to investigate whether media coverage induces firms to reduce toxic emissions. The results show that an increase in Newspapers Density, that is the number of newspapers nearby the plant, raises the press coverage of the plant's toxic emissions and reduces the amount of these emissions. This association is
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Marín, Rosa Elena Riaño. "Women's empowerment : an avenue to gender equality?" Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427143.

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The aim of this research is to investigate whether and how women's financial contributions to household resources might lead to changes in gender relations. It feeds directly into current concerns about women's empowerment and gender equality which are on the agenda of international and national bodies, scholars and development practitioners and is anchored in the debate about the importance of women's income-earning activities for achieving gender equality. The research focuses on relationships between women and men in a poor rural settlement in northeastern Mexico. The thesis details the neg
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Kovacs, Erika. "Gender Equality in Virtual Work I.: Risks." Labour Law Department of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6835/1/A_06_KovacsE_hllj_2018_1.pdf.

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This article focuses on gender equality in virtual work, taking special account of the regulatory challenges. It contributes to broader debates on the workers' situation in the sharing economy in two ways. Firstly, it makes an inaugural attempt to evaluate the implications of the new forms of work in the sharing economy for female virtual workers, looking at the issue of equal treatment. Secondly, it offers preliminary suggestions regarding a future regulation to improve equality between genders in virtual work. The paper is divided into four main parts. The first section defines "virtua
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Lezis, Israelsson Jennifer. "Sexism and gender equality at trade shows." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33071.

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Sultan, Tipu. "Gender Equality a case study of Sweden : Gender Equality Gender Equity and policies of combating inequality at workplace to make the society equal." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Sociologi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-5726.

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The paper analyses Gender Equality, Gender Equity and policies of combating inequality at workplace to make the society equal as a case study of Sweden. The aim of paper is see the gender equality, gender equity, discrimination against women at workplace and to describe the policies combating inequality in the welfare state of Sweden. This work highlights the gender equality in terms of institutionalizing gender equality, gender equity, gender and pay gap, parental leave, gender and the pension system and sexual behavior directed towards women and policies combating inequality to bring equalit
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Blomqvist, Linnéa. "Gender Quotas in the Constitution : A method to achieve gender equality?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-154135.

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Drawing on earlier research and theories regarding female political representation and its effects on gender equality, the attempt in this study is to investigate whether political gender quotas, legislated in the constitution, has a positive association and effect on gender equality in a society. A substantial number of studies supports the notion that quotas increase female representation in the political context. Yet, few studies examine gender quotas effect on women’s everyday life. The study investigates the variation in gender equality amongst new democracies where countries with gender
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Lewis, Ellen D. "Gendered systemic analysis : systems thinking and gender equality in international development." Thesis, University of Hull, 2016. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:14575.

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Systemic intervention (Midgley, 2000) and Feminist Systems Thinking (Stephens, 2013a), both branches of Critical Systems Thinking, have been used widely to improve social and organisational systems. According to Midgley (2000), a systemic intervention can be defined as a “…purposeful action by an agent to create change” (113, emphasis original). Building on Midgley’s work, Stephens (2013a) created a non-hierarchical “… framework for feminist systems thinking, as a set of five principles that provide common sense guidelines for applied research and social action…” (8, emaphsis added). Presently
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Lanza, Chiara <1997&gt. "Gender equality e policy-making. Analisi sull'efficacia delle politiche di genere." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21361.

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L’elaborato si propone di discutere le politiche implementate sul mercato del lavoro per favorire l’impiego e l’inclusione della forza lavoro femminile, evidenziando l’efficacia (o meno) delle pratiche in un contesto socio-culturale ancora fortemente esposto a stereotipi e discriminazioni nei confronti del genere femminile. La tesi è articolata in cinque capitoli. Il primo capitolo propone un excursus storico sulla storia della discriminazione di genere, descrivendo come secoli di cultura e società abbiano attuato una segregazione lavorativa della forza lavoro femminile che oggi necessità d
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Quinn, Mary. "The process and outcomes of equality officer investigation under the Employment Equality Act,1977." Thesis, Keele University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268328.

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Armstrong, Chris. "Complex equality and sexual inequality." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367936.

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Nollenberger, Castro Natalia. "Three Empirical Essays on Gender Equality and Education." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/125719.

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El objetivo de esta tesis es aportar nueva evidencia empírica sobre tres temas de gran importancia en las áreas de Economía de Género y Economía de la Educación. La tesis consiste en tres ensayos con una marcada orientación empírica. En el primer ensayo se analiza el efecto de proveer servicios de guardería universales sobre la participación de las madres en el mercado de trabajo. Para ello se utiliza un marco cuasi-experimental derivado de una reforma educativa llevada a cabo en España a inicios de los noventa y que amplió la educación preescolar pública en horario completo a los niños de 3 a
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Olivius, Elisabeth. "Governing Refugees through Gender Equality : Care, Control, Emancipation." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-96379.

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In recent decades, international feminist activism and research has had significant success in pushing gender issues onto the international agenda and into global governance institutions and processes. The goal of gender equality is now widely accepted and codified in international legal instruments. While this appears to be a remarkable global success for feminism, widespread gender inequalities persist around the globe. This paradox has led scholars to question the extent to which feminist concepts and goals can retain their transformative potential when they are institutionalized in global
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Kobatake, Kikuka. "Gender equality and women's pension rights in Japan." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2008. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2949/.

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In recent years, derived pensions for housewives have drawn criticisms in Japan as a gender bias for the male breadwinner/female homemaker households. Many prominent feminists support measures to remove or curtail these arrangements in favour of a gender neutral pension system. Nonetheless, it is an open question whether redressing gender assumptions in the pension system can help redressing another form of gender inequality, that is, gender gap in pensions and women's greater vulnerability to poverty in old age. The purpose of this study is to reconsider the 'women's pension problem' by unrav
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Withey, D. R. "Opportunities for gender equality in design and technology." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341053.

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Kovacs, Erika. "Gender Equality in Virtual Work II.: Regulatory Suggestions." Labour Law Department of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6848/1/A_01_EKovacs_hllj_2018_2.pdf.

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This article focuses on gender equality in virtual work, taking special account of the regulatory challenges. It contributes to broader debates on the workers' situation in the sharing economy in two ways. Firstly, it makes an inaugural attempt to evaluate the implications of the new forms of work in the sharing economy for female virtual workers, looking at the issue of equal treatment. Secondly, it offers preliminary suggestions regarding a future regulation to improve equality between genders in virtual work. This is the second part of a paper on gender equality i
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Rustin, Carmine Jianni. "Gender equality and happiness among South African women." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6511.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>Have South African women's lives become happier since the transition to democracy? If they are, could this be linked to gender equality? This is the central question of this study. This study explored a group of women’s subjective experiences of gender equality, by which I mean equality on the basis of gender; and happiness, which refers to women’s life satisfaction and their affective state. It further explores whether gender equality and happiness are linked. The study assumed that everything being equal, endeavours to liberate women from patriarchy and to
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Westwood, Susan Linda. "Ageing, gender and sexuality : equality in later life." Thesis, Keele University, 2015. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2582/.

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In this thesis I explore how ageing, gender and sexuality intersect to influence equality in later life, in relation to older lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals and non-labelling individuals in same-gender relationships (LGBN). In particular I argue that temporality and spatiality shape uneven outcomes in later life by informing the discursive and performative production of ageing, gender and sexuality, which in turn influence access to resources, recognition and representation in older age contexts. Taking a feminist socio-legal perspective, my thesis addresses four questions: 1) How are t
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Abdo, Dina Taha Hussien. "Effects of IMF Conditional Loans on Gender Equality." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu162086139444451.

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Юрко, Ю. В. "The issue of gender equality and women’s empowerment." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/43730.

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"The attitude to men and women is completely different in every society”. Such conclusion was made by the development program of the United Nations in 1997. More than 60 years ago in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which stated that every person regardless of gender has the same rights and freedoms[1]. However in 1997 the report about human development says that no state is successful in achieving this goal. However the level of "underachievement" varies in each country. But still the Nordic countries such as Sweden, Norway and Iceland are famous
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BONK, Alica Ida. "Essays on trade, fiscal policy and gender equality." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1814/69001.

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Defence date: 23 November 2020<br>Examining Board: Prof. Evi Pappa (University Carlos III of Madrid); Prof. Leonardo Melosi (European University Institute and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago); Prof. Sarantis Kalyvitis (Athens University of Economics and Business); Prof. Antonio Navas (University of Sheffield)<br>Chapter 1 introduces a new data set containing daily trade policy statements issued by government agencies between 2007 and 2019. Entries are classified along several dimensions: the direction of the policy change, the stage of the reform, and the initiating country. I argue that com
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Bette, Miriam. "Gender Equality Policies: Results for Social Change? : A comparative discourse analysis on gender equality from two ends of the “aid chain”." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö universitetsbibliotek, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44797.

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The field of international development cooperation has experienced an increasing demand for result-driven management over the last decades. However, a clear consensus of the meaning of ‘ results’ is often lacking in initiatives and projects for social change. As the field functions throughout myriads of contexts and cultures, the demand of results therefore brings upon issues of definitions and discourse, as well as underlying values. The goals and strategies set out to achieve certain results are influenced by assumptions that define the problem definition of the targeted issue. A hierarchy i
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De, Kretser Kara. "Gender Parity, Gender Equality, and Intersectionality : Public Perceptions of a ‘50:50’ Workforce." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för tema, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166655.

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Gender parity. Gender equality. Diversity and intersectionality. Are they understood to be one and the same thing? Whilst there is much public data and opinion on economic benefits to having gender parity within organisations and how it can help support women’s empowerment and inclusion in male dominated professional sectors, public perception on the topic may paint a different picture. In this thesis, the social media platform Twitter is used to collect data to conduct a content analysis in order to understand public sentiments in response to one company’s perceived success in their organisat
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Kataja, Mikael. "Fighting Gender Norms : Gender Equality, Masculinity, and the Dynamics of Violence in Conflict." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325032.

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Gender equality is an emerging field in conflict studies, but so far research has mainly focused on the onset of conflict. However, strong correlations between low levels of gender equality and the risk for conflict has been found, which gives encouragement for further research. Other fields have explored the field of gender equality more extensively, and has for example found relationships between attitudes towards gender equality and the prevalence of violence in personal relationships. Building on those findings, this thesis attempts to advance the field of gender equality in conflict studi
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Börjesson, Isabell. "Democracy and Gender Equality in South Africa : A Case Study about South Africa's consolidation of democracy with the perspective of gender equality." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-90860.

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Kobayashi, Yoshie 1955. "A path toward gender equality : state feminism in Japan." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/3026.

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This dissertation is the first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, focusing on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to examine state-society relationships in terms of feminist policymaking, it tends to neglect a state's activity in improving women's status and rights in non-western nations where the feminist movements are apathetic or antagonistic to the state and where the state also creates a vertical relationship with feminist groups. To apply the state
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Fees, Evelyn Wyoming Hooghe Liesbet. "Making women matter Spain's long road toward gender equality /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1293.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of a Master of Arts in the Department of Political Science." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
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Hjalmsdottir, Andrea. ""Reality bites" : attitudes towards gender equality among Icelandic youth." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13141.

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Time has been on the side of egalitarian gender attitudes in industrialized Western countries, and Iceland ranks among the highest nations in terms of economic, educational, political and health equality. Although the dominant discourses have supported the idea that gender equality has already been achieved, or will be with the aging and active participation of future generations, serious gender inequalities persist, including a wide gender pay gap and a relatively traditional division of household labour. In stark contrast with dominant discourse, this thesis supports recent research which ha
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Aps, William John Steven. "Indirect discrimination, the individual and the gender equality duty." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550435.

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This aim of this thesis is to establish a conceptual link between the Gender Equality Duty (GED) and the mechanism of indirect discrimination. The method employed in this exercise is to reconceptualise the Gender Equality Duty as a technique of government that further reconfigures power relations in decision-making. By encouraging, rather than requiring, a gendered approach to decision-making that involves empirical analyses of target populations, and in making this a requirement of uncertain application, the principle effect of the GED is to create indeterminacy in the public sphere. Moreover
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Perez, Alvaro Martinez. "Couple relationships : the effect of education on gender equality." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522090.

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Beck, Rosalind D. "Integration or exclusion? : perceptions of gender equality in policing." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250392.

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Gender equality has been a marginalised topic within policing studies, with a very small pool of academics conducting work on this subject in recent years. This thesis aims to make a contribution to this at both a theoretical and empirical level. This is done by refining and extending theoretical models proposed by previous researchers, in the light of new data on policewomen's and their male colleagues' perceptions of gender equality in policing. Key theories, themes and findings in the thesis relate to organisational change, power and social control, masculinities and exclusion. Some of thes
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Vaughan, Rosie Peppin. "Gender equality in education : India's responses to international agendas." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611736.

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Mai, Thi Thuy Dung. "Promoting gender equality in education in Vietnamese high schools." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2015. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4485/.

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This research study examines the issue of gender equality in high schools in Vietnam through the lenses of Vietnamese educators and Vietnamese students and compares the situation in that country with measures taken in England to promote gender equality in education. The sample consisted of staff and students in Vietnam and staff in England. In order to achieve the required in-depth analysis of the social experience of students and educators the research approach employed was qualitative and the main research tools were semi-structured interviews. Data was analysed by the combination of grounde
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Socratous, Maria. "Gender equality in the workplace : the case of Cyprus." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/3122.

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This thesis takes up with the investigation of the position of women in the workplace and in the society in general in Cyprus. This thesis is focused on the investigation of gender inequality in Cyprus and especially the reasons of the non-progression of women in the workplace under the scope of the theoretical framework of agency, structure and culture. The empirical study was based on an inductive approach and using a mixed methodology the findings of the research were extracted both from an online survey and semi-structured interviews amongst accountants and academics as two representative
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Donati, Laura. "Viewing Post-Conflict Gender Equality Through a Vulnerability Lens." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172604.

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Natural disasters and conflicts are not gender neutral. They have a different impact on women, girls, boys and men, deepening and intensifying already existing, socially constructed, cultural norms and gender roles. However, crisis represents a “turning point” that shakes balances and traditions, unbalancing the fixed social structure, leaving room for women to exit the crisis empowered, rather than wounded. A systemic integration of a gender-sensitive approach into humanitarian and disaster reliefs operations wound tackle pre-existing inequalities, ensuring an effective quality response and r
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Kobayashi, Yoshie. "A path toward gender equality : state feminism in Japan /." New York : Routledge, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39295267v.

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Gooderham, Sarah. "The veiled truth: Gender equality and banning the burqa." Thesis, Gooderham, Sarah (2013) The veiled truth: Gender equality and banning the burqa. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2013. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41613/.

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This thesis explores the idea that all Muslim women who wear the burqa are oppressed and that, in countries like Australia, the burqa must be banned because it is in opposition to a core Western value of gender equality. This thesis emphasizes that the mainstream debate around banning the burqa and Muslim women has been built upon certain understandings of the Muslim faith and its cultural practices, which fail to take into account the many varied positions Muslim women take on their faith and the wearing of the burqa. Muslim women’s voices are completely omitted from the debate because they,
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