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Female breadwinners on the rise in Europe
By Agnese Vitali About one in three women in cohabiting or married couples in the UK earned more than 50% of their household income in 2010, according to the Family Resources Survey, up from one in ten in 1980. But … Continue reading
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Tagged female breadwinner, gender equality, gender wage gap, male breadwinner
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Japan’s ticking demographic time bomb
Insufficient gender equality lead to Japan’s fertility levels being way beyond replacement level. In Japan, it is more or less impossible for women to combine a professional career with having children. This will harm the socioeconomic equilibrium of the country. … Continue reading
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Tagged childcare, fertility, gender equality, Japan, one child policy
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Sustainable development and gender equality – two objectives that are interdependent
Ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October, UN Women released its new report, the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 2014: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development. Charting the rationale and the … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, gender equality, sustainable development, UN Women, World Survey 2014
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Women’s rights in the Arab world
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Tagged Arab spring, gender equality, Thomas Reuters, violence against women, Womeńs rights
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Gender Gap Index 2013: Increased Political Participation Helps Narrow Global Gender Gap
The world’s gender gaps narrowed slightly in 2013 on the back of definite if not universal improvements in economic equality and political participation between the sexes, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2013. The eighth annual … Continue reading
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Tagged gender equality, gender ranking, Global Gender Gap, HDI, Human Development Index, Klaus Schwab, Saadia Zahidi, women's economic participation, women's labour force participation, women's political empowerment, women's political participation, World Economic Forum
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Can cash transfers increase fertility rates?
Most developed countries with relatively high fertility rates around replacement level (2,1 children per women), like France or the Nordic countries, have a comprehensive mix of different family policy instruments. The reason why these countries have been experiencing a re-increase … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Greulich, Angela Luci, birth grants, cash transfers, child care, European Journal of Population, family policies, gender equality, gender quota, low fertility, maternity leave, mentoring, Olivier Thévenon, parental leave, population aging, total fertility rates, work life balance
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The Impact of Family Policies on Fertility Trends in Developed Countries
A new article has been published in the European Journal of Population on fertility and family policies in Europe. Here is the abstract and the link to the article: Abstract We examine how strongly fertility trends respond to family policies … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Greulich, Angela Greulich-Luci, Angela Luci, Angela Luci-Greulich, birth postponement, childcare facilities, children born ouot of marriage, completed fertility, Europe, family policies, female employment, female labour market participation, fertility, gender equality, INED, OECD countries, Olivier Thévenon, parental leave, Sorbonne, work life balance
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Japan – hard times for working mothers
Japanese women are more likely to have a university degree than men, and the number of women in employment has been rising steadily for 10 years – but, for a range of reasons, a woman who has had children still … Continue reading
Call to action: Gender equality for a sustainable future!
Call to action signed by women heads of state and governments at Rio+20 At a high-level event at the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012, women Heads of State and Government signed a Call to Action with concrete policy recommendations on … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Luci, call to action, Dalia Grybauskait, Employment and Entrepreneurship., Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, feminization of poverty, gender discrimination, gender equality, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Julia Gillard, Laura Chinchilla Miranda, Michelle Bachelet, OECD Week 2012: Gender Equality in Education, Portia Simpson Miller, Rio +20, UN Women, women heads of state, Women Leaders’ Summit on the Future Women Want, women's empowerment, World Bank World Development Report 2012: Gender & Development
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New partnership between EU and UN Women to enhance gender equality worldwide
A new partnership between the EU and UN Women is set up to strengthen cooperation on empowering women and enhancing gender equality . The new Memorandum, signed in mid April 2012 by Catherine Ashton, Andris Piebalgs and Michelle Bachelet, reaffirms … Continue reading
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Tagged Andris Piebalgs, Angela Luci, Catherine Ashton, European Union, gender debate, gender equality, gender violence, gender-based violence, Increasing Accountability in Financing for Gender Equality Progamme, Michelle Bachelet, partnership on gender equality, UN Women, violence against women, women's advancement, women's decision-making, women's empowerment, women's right
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