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  2. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    The effects of leadership and decision-making; Women's responsibilities at home make it difficult to take part and engage in decision-making. [60] As this indicates that women's needs, priorities and skills are being ignored when managing resources and making decision. This affects empowerment in community and the power to create changes. [59] [60]

  3. Socioeconomic impact of female education - Wikipedia

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    This is particularly the case when education for women is only seen culturally as a tool for making women more attractive wives. [13] Some researchers don't claim that women's education necessarily has little effect on development, but instead question the methodologies of the research showing that it has a sizable effect.

  4. Naana Otoo-Oyortey - Wikipedia

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    Launch of the annual report of Women's Participation in Decision-Making & Leadership decade. With Justina Mutale, Rainatou Sow, Naana Otoo-Oyortey and Dr Anouka van Eerdewijk. In 2014 Otoo-Oyortey gave a TEDx talk about women's rights and FGM. [13] That year she was included in the Evening Standard's list of London's most influential people. [14]

  5. Gender and development - Wikipedia

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    Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities.

  6. Gender mainstreaming - Wikipedia

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    Some say that gender mainstreaming has not increased women's participation in decision making. As Charlesworth notes, "[i]n the most readily measurable area, the United Nations' employment of women in professional and managerial posts, progress has been glacial. In 2004, women held 37.4 percent of these positions.

  7. Sustainable Development Goal 5 - Wikipedia

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    The full title of Target 5.5 is: "Ensure women's full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life." [5] Indicators are: [8] Indicator 5.5.1: Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local government

  8. Gender equality - Wikipedia

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    Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making, and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations, and needs equally, also regardless of gender. [1]

  9. Gender Empowerment Measure - Wikipedia

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    The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.