Gender Equality

differential treatment of individuals can be based on grounds such as race, color or sex, and constitutes a violation of equality of opportunity and treatment. In other words, discrimination creates and reinforces inequalities. In defiance of their abilities, it hinders the freedom of all beings. The term sexual harassment in the workplace conducts of a sexual nature or based on gender, perceived as intrusive by the person and impairs his dignity. Includes, for example in the derogatory remarks and equivocal

scrute en historien les deux decennies passees, on constate que cette deuxieme periode s’est ouverte au milieu des annees 2000, 2. J’ai mentionne l’aspiration de certaines Egyptiennes a une reflexion islamique sur la liberation des femmes dans ≪ Gender Activism: Feminists and Islamists in Egypt ≫, dans Valentine Moghadam (ed.), Identity Politics and Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective, Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1993 ; sur les debuts du feminisme islamique

it reverses a judgment signed off on by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. But the controversy over such programs goes back decades. It was President Lyndon Johnson who first attempted to combat inequality with laws taking race, ethnicity and gender into account. In a 1965 speech at Howard University, he argued that one could not expect a person "who, for years, has been hobbled by chains" to be able to compete with everyone else. Since then, supporters have praised the employment and education

to: age, ethnicity, gender, physical abilities/qualities, race, sexual orientation, educational background, geographic location, income, marital status, military experience, parental status, religious beliefs, work experience, and job classification." (Equal Employment Opportunities Commission,2010) According to Etsy et al. (1995), diversity is acknowledging, understanding, accepting, valuing, and celebrating differences among people with respect to age, class, ethnicity, gender, physical and mental

importance of others in terms of how useful they are. Stress: Are supposed to continually test their own ability This can be stressful. They tend to take on stress physically. Gender roles: Females might as easily hold power as males, especially in urban and modernized areas. Gender roles are not rigidly defined; each gender takes on the role of the other when necessary to serve her or his self-interests in public and/or private activities. Role of women: Women are supposed to be adventurous. Role

Equal access to land UN 1325 conflict resolution Beijing PFA effective and accessible national machinery ECONOMIC POLITICAL Policies Support for women’s quota and affirmative action Decision making parliament/ministries positions within Gender mainstreaming in all departments Remarque : Le score maximum pour chaque indicateur est de 2. Les chiffres ci-dessus sont des performances moyennes des 12 pays participants dans le cadre de l'indice IDISA. Par exemple, la valeur moyenne pour la

bénéficient et sur les pensions qu’elles perçoivent, avec pour conséquence un risque de pauvreté plus élevé, en particulier pendant la retraite. En 2007, le taux de 1 2 Gender and Sustainable Development. Maximising the Economic, Social and Environmental Role of Women, OCDE, 2008. Smith, M., Analysis Note: Gender Equality and Recession, EGGE, 2009. FR 4 FR risque de pauvreté des femmes (17 %) était supérieur à celui des hommes (15 %), et l’écart était particulièrement marqué pour

increases 1%, poverty also increases 0.621%. Background Some international facts that motivated this study: * Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations, where the third goal is to promote gender equality and empower women, and the forth target to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015. * Study made by Riane Eisler, David Loye, and Kari Norgaard in 1995. They examined social statistical

Singapore Declaration, which committed the Commonwealth to the institution of world peace; promotion of representative democracy and individual liberty; the pursuit of equality and opposition to racism; the fight against poverty, ignorance, and disease; and free trade.[2] To these were added opposition to discrimination on the basis of gender by the Lusaka Declaration of 1979,[14] and environmental sustainability by the Langkawi Declaration of 1989.[15] These objectives were reinforced by the Harare Declaration

quota system established by the Multi-Fibre Arrangement has put increased competitive pressure on Moroccan textile producers. Given that women make up more than 70 per cent of the workforce in the textile and garment industry, there is a distinct gender dimension to policies regarding this sector. Insufficient Growth Morocco’s economic expansion picked up somewhat in 2001-2004 after sluggish growth the previous decade. The IMF and World Bank estimate that the Moroccan economy needs to grow by an