Trends in Gender Equality and Women's Advancement

Stotsky, Janet Gale; Shibuya, Sakina; Kolovich, Lisa; Kebhaj, Suhaib

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“…We can perhaps attribute it to the variety and composition of the international gender equality indices. According to Table 3, the results suggest that the gender indices remain highly dependent on variables that vary with a country's income level, especially GII, due to the selection of sub‐indicators, and thus should be used with care in aggregate level regressions (Stotsky et al, 2016).…”

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Gender‐focused or gender mainstreaming programmes? The gender dimension of international aid

Yang

2023

J of Intl Development

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Aid in support of gender equality and women's empowerment has gathered significant momentum over the past decade and has also sparked a renewed debate over the effectiveness of foreign aid. Is gender aid a panacea that will help the recipient countries confront the challenges of the gender inequality deeply ingrained in their societies, or is it just a placebo pretending to be effective? Is there any difference between gender‐focused aid and gender mainstreaming aid in terms of aid effectiveness? To answer these key questions, this article examines the impact of gender aid on gender inequality using a sample of 116 recipient countries that covers the period from 2010 to 2019. By adopting a hybrid method that incorporates fixed‐ and random‐effects models, we obtain results indicating that increasing amounts of gender mainstreaming aid over time successfully reduce gender inequality and close the gender gap. In stark contrast, gender‐focused aid lacks the statistical significance needed to prove its potency. In addition to confirming gender aid's effectiveness, this article provides further policy implications regarding the gender mainstreaming strategy in the field of international development, particularly when considered in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Gender‐focused or gender mainstreaming programmes? The gender dimension of international aid

Yang

2023

J of Intl Development

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“…The first and most comprehensive measure of the gender gap we use is the Gender Inequality Index provided by the International Monetary Fund for more than 140 countries. The Gender Inequality Index is based on a rich set of indicators: the share of female seats in national parliaments, female educational attainment at secondary and tertiary levels, labor force participation rate, maternal mortality ratio, and adolescent fertility rate (Stotsky et al, 2016). 5 This time series dates back several years; therefore, it allows us to include in our analysis data collected well before the sampling of our respondents.…”

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You can't be what you can't see: The role of gender in the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship

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Review of Income and Wealth

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In this paper, we investigate how the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship varies between sons and daughters and whether such a process depends on living in a country characterized by a high gender gap. Using the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe data set, we find that the effect on daughters' entrepreneurial choices of having an entrepreneur as father is lower than the one on sons only in countries with a high gender gap. Moreover, it is just in countries with high gender inequality that the effect of having an entrepreneurial mother is different between sons and daughters, with the impact being positive for daughters only. We also develop an individual‐level indicator of gender gap within countries that corroborates our findings, which we interpret as evidence of the presence of a role‐modeling mechanism. However, we find evidence of convergence across time of the intergenerational transmission process to the gender‐independent transfer typical of more gender‐equal countries.

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“…It was only in the early 1970s that national and international development organizations began addressing women's participation in development initiatives [7]. The 1980s marked a significant shift with the introduction of the sustainable development perspective, altering the understanding of women's role in human development [8,9]. This critique also gave rise to the "Gender and Development (GAD)" perspective, which scrutinizes women's role in development [9].…”

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Women Empowerment as a Mediator Between Environmental Conservation and Climate Intervention

Khan

2024

IJSDP

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The study investigated the influence of environmental conservation on climate intervention and explored how women empowerment mediates between the both. Using survey questionnaire, 246 responses were collected from Saudi women. To understand these associations, Smart PLS-SEM version 4 was employed for data analysis. This study significantly supported all the hypotheses; environmental conservation has a positive significant impact on climate intervention (β = 0.552; p = 0.003). The research verified that women empowerment plays a mediating role, with statistical significance (β = 0.267; p = 0.015), highlighting their crucial function as key drivers in advancing sustainable development. The study's conclusion highlighted the value of women's empowerment as a link between combating climate change and environmental preservation. Saudi women are found to have sufficient knowledge on environment and have mobility in resources, and be good decision-makers. By identifying and leveraging the unique talents of women, policymakers and practitioners may develop more inclusive and effective strategies for decreasing environmental challenges and building climate resilient communities, thereby helping to realize the goals of Saudi Vision 2030. This study contributes to the ongoing discourse regarding the interplay between gender, climate resilience, and environmental sustainability by endorsing all-encompassing approaches that empower women to be agents of change.

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Trends in Gender Equality and Women's Advancement

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Gender‐focused or gender mainstreaming programmes? The gender dimension of international aid

Gender‐focused or gender mainstreaming programmes? The gender dimension of international aid

You can't be what you can't see: The role of gender in the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship

Women Empowerment as a Mediator Between Environmental Conservation and Climate Intervention

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