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A bar graph comparing poverty differences based on age and gender in 2012. Gender and Development (GAD) is a holistic approach to give aid to countries where gender inequality has a great effect of not improving the social and economic development. It is a program focused on the gender development of women to empower them and decrease the level ...
In 2012, the World Development Report was the first report of the series examining Gender Equality and Development. [55] Florika Fink-Hooijer, head of the European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations introduced cash-based aid as well as gender and age sensitive aid. [58] [59]
The term gender is sometimes used by linguists to refer to social gender as well as grammatical gender. [83] Some languages, such as German or Finnish, have no separate words for sex and gender. German, for example, uses "Biologisches Geschlecht" for biological sex, and "Soziales Geschlecht" for gender when making this distinction. [84]
[15] [16] The adjective female can describe a person's sex or gender identity. [6] The word can also refer to the shape of connectors and fasteners, such as screws, electrical pins, and technical equipment. Under this convention, sockets and receptacles are called female, and the corresponding plugs male. [17] [18]
Most cultures use a gender binary by which women are of one of two genders, the others being men; other cultures have a third gender. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] [ 68 ] Femininity (also called womanliness or girlishness ) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls.
When people have ‘gender reveal parties,’ it really should be called a ‘genital reveal party,’” she offers. The concept of gender really is a social construct, adds Golob. Forget about ...
"English used to have grammatical gender. We started losing it as a language around the 11th century. When we lost that, we started to evolve into what would be referred to as a natural-gender ...
Continuing to make emoji more inclusive, then, isn't just a matter of making texting your friends more fun, according to Paul Hunt, the designer behind Unicode Consortium's first gender-inclusive ...