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Since women have long been under-represented in the membership and senior levels of political science associations, IPSA has decided in 2009 to establish a gender monitoring system to track the status of women in political science. The gender monitoring survey of national associations is conducted under the aegis of the IPSA Committee on Participation and Membership, with the assistance of the IPSA Secretariat. This initiative has been discussed at length, and the questionnaire was first sent to national PSAs in 2011. 
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The goal of this report is to improve understanding of the potential impact of technological change on women and men’s employment, with an emphasis on the likely effects for women, given the jobs where women predominantly work and given the disproportionate share of home and family care done by women.
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more than 200 pieces of sheet music spanning the years 1838-1923
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A summary outlining results from a mixed methods evaluation into our transmedia project in India, AdhaFULL.
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This report is the culmination of the extensive and often ground-breaking work undertaken in the ILO’s Women at Work Centenary Initiative. It is closely aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Nicola Davis and Jordan Erica Webber examine the repercussions of a male-orientated world – from drugs that don’t work for women to VR headsets that give them motion sickness
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Academy Francais ended centuries of male linguistic dominance Thursday by allowing feminine words for all professions
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Informed Opinions has produced the Gender Gap Tracker in partnership with Simon Fraser University. It analyses the ratio of males and females who are quoted in seven major Canadian news publications
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The International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)’s 10 Steps to Ensure Gender Responsive Processes & Ceasefire Agreements is a practical guidance document intended to inform governments, international organizations, and civil society facilitating local, national and regional ceasefire negotiations.
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Human computer interfaces are almost never built with transgender people in mind, and continue to reinforce existing biases.
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The pay gap has widened at one in four firms that have revealed their figures ahead of the deadline.
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Using data from the National LGBT Survey 2017, this report examines differences in disclosure of sexual orientation to healthcare providers and experience of healthcare among different groups of lesbian and bisexual women
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This project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Future Research Leaders Awards and led by the University of Bristol The three main aims of this studywere to examine the prevalence and distribution of women’s and men’s acceptance of Intimate Partner violence in 49 low- and middle-income countries to identify systemic country-level social, political and economic empowerment factors alongside individual-/household-level factors associated with the acceptance of domestic violence and; to examine the influence of legislation. It includes microdata from the national Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and from UNDP, OECD, World Bank, UNESCO databases as well as topic-specific databases such as WomenStats, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) . Findings and papers can be downloaded from the website
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This publication provides insights to help develop methodological guidelines on collecting sex-disaggregated data about asset ownership.
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Findings from 12 inspiring conversations with women in artificial intelligence
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Letters: Forty-five female African activists from 15 African countries call on world leaders to play their part in the fight against gender injustice
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people working in humanitarian and development settings understand and implement feminist approaches to addressing violence against women and girls, and empower them to promote women-centered GBV theory and practice. To build the confidence and competence of practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and other advocates, COFEM has developed the Feminist Pocketbook – a series of short, easily digestible tip sheets
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Research can open doors for more gender equitable futures. Gender analysis is built on an understanding of the differences and inequalities in the interrelated lives of women, men, and members of other gender diverse groups, often shaped by unequal
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Breaking Down The Barriers warns of devastating consequences for women and their families because they are not able to get the support they need. Time and again the signs of abuse are not picked up by professionals. Too often women are bounced around or even turned away from services. Mothers are particularly let down, with … Continued
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26 FEBRUARY 2019: Fawcett research, released with global law firm Hogan Lovells today, reveals MPs, Peers, volunteers and staff are woefully unprotected if they are sexually harassed in Parliament.
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Far-right movements have long persecuted and oppressed LGBT+ people. Anti-LGBT+ hate has remained a central tenet for groups across the far-right spectrum.
