Knoema.com - Gender http://hi.knoema.com 2019-06-24T14:58:31Z /favicon.png Knoema आपका व्यक्तिगत ज्ञान राजमार्ग है Fertility rate and school enrollment among women //hi.knoema.com/yrpbcfc/fertility-rate-and-school-enrollment-among-women 2019-06-24T14:58:31Z Misha Gusev hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1000560
Fertility rate and school enrollment among women

During last 3 decades fertility rate decreased from 3.7 to 2.5 children per woman. Why do woman give less births today compared to 90s and 80s? Actually there are many different reasons. And one of them is education. The more women are engaged in education the less is the fertility rate. The highest fertility rates now are in African countries, where only about 20% of women get secondary education. On the contrary, in developed countries, where school enrollment rate among women is almost 100%, fertility rate is below 2 children per woman.

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UN Women Executive Board, First Regular Session of 2019 //hi.knoema.com/haufvfd/un-women-executive-board-first-regular-session-of-2019 2019-01-29T09:02:02Z Alina Buzanakova hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1293450
UN Women Executive Board, First Regular Session of 2019

In July 2010, United Nations Member States adopted the General Assembly Resolution 64/289 establishing a new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) consolidating four separate former United Nations entities. In creating UN-Women, the international community sent the message that gender equality and women’s rights are on par with other global imperatives. With 75 offices around the world, UN-Women has unprecedented global reach. UN-Women is a powerful advocacy voice with governments, with United Nations sister agencies, with United Nations country teams, with nongovernmental organizations, with the private sector, and with the public at large. Thanks to its close ties with women’s organizations on the ground, UN-Women understands what women believe are the most critical issues globally. As a United Nations organization, UN-Women is in a position to amplify these voices and to make heard women’s concerns, realities, and priorities. Date of Event: 12 February 2019 Event Holder: UN Economic and Social Council

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62st Commission on the Status of Women //hi.knoema.com/ivayqwc/62st-commission-on-the-status-of-women 2018-11-21T13:12:12Z Alina Buzanakova hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1293450
62st Commission on the Status of Women

The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are welcome to attend the session.Priority theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls;Review theme: Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (agreed conclusions of the forty-seventh session)   Date of Event: 12 - 23 March 2018 Event Holder: UN Economic and Social Council Venue: United Nations Headquarters, New York

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Gender Pay Gap //hi.knoema.com/fotiuhd/gender-pay-gap 2018-10-23T14:43:23Z Nematullah Khan hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1975840
Gender Pay Gap

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Gender Imbalances and Female Foeticide //hi.knoema.com/kuiytp/gender-imbalances-and-female-foeticide 2018-08-16T07:05:00Z Alex Kulikov hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1847910
Gender Imbalances and Female Foeticide

In 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a wide-sweeping reform and economic growth plan to address female foeticide in India under a campaign called, “Educate the Girl, Save the Girl”.  Through the empowerment of women, Prime Minister Modi sought to stop female feoticide, a practice which has grown in India over the last few decades as fetus imaging technology to confirm the gender of the fetus has developed and become more broadly available. As a result, while the overall ratio of females to males (feminity ratio) in India has gradually improved, the ratio among newborn babies has deteriorated. In the mid-1970s, the ratio of newborn girls to boys was about 94 per 100; recent data show it is now 90 per 100, elevating the issue to what the United Nations calls "emergency proportions."According to some studies, about 2,000 girls are killed every day in India, either by abortion or immediately after birth. Gender imbalances differ around the world, in some cases forced through female foeticide and other cases natural or other social factors have led to sustained imbalances.Female foeticide practices continue not only in India, but also in China and some other developing Southern Asian nations. For additional information about the so-called "missing women of Asia," review the works of Amartya Sen, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science.In the ex-USSR territories, while the feminity ratio among newborns is close to normal,  the same ratio among the total population is remarkably high due to higher male mortality rates and lower life expectancy. In several countries Middle Eastern countries, especially Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), gender imbalances exist primarily among older age groups and are skewed toward more men than women. For example, the UAE reported 97 girls per 100 boys in the 0-1 year age group but 44 women to 100 men in older age groups.

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The Millennium Development Goals Progress Report //hi.knoema.com/ynrsbxg/the-millennium-development-goals-progress-report 2018-08-10T09:38:41Z Alex Kulikov hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1847910
The Millennium Development Goals Progress Report

In 2000, the United Nations established eight Millennium Development Goals. For each goal specific targets were set, each of which is measured by one or more indicators. Select the indicator of interest from the list at the top of the page and the country or region in the table. Or observe achievements of the world as a whole on charts below.

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Gender Diversity and Corporate Boards | Global Trends //hi.knoema.com/xxyokq/gender-diversity-and-corporate-boards-global-trends 2017-03-21T17:46:12Z Alex Kulikov hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1847910
Gender Diversity and Corporate Boards | Global Trends

It will of course require more than a bronzed statue of a strong-willed girl taking on the bull of Wall Street to force a sustained and amplified role for women in the upper echelons of the corporate world.  But, how far have we come globally in opening c-suites and corporate board rooms to women?  On average, during the period from 2008 to 2014, the participation rate of women on corporate boards increased in most of the publicly traded corporations included in major equity indices. Some notable differences emerge when accounting for gender quotas and industry trends:Markets with gender diversity quotas had a higher proportion of females on boards than those without mandatory quotas. Since 2011, the percentage of women on boards has risen by as much as 12 percent for companies in quota markets and only 3 percent in non-quota markets. Even among the worst preforming of the ranking, however, progress was evident. The companies on the Indian S&P CNX Nifty 50 increased female representation from 4.4 percent in 2008 to 8.3 percent in 2014.In quota-based markets, large capital firms had the highest proportion of women on boards and the largest increases in gender diversity. The strongest female representation in 2014 was among the companies of the Norwegian OBX Total Return Index, which reported 37.9 percent of board members were female.The household & personal products industry reported the highest female participation rate among corporate boards, while energy reported the lowest rate.The percentage of new female nominees to corporate boards almost doubled during the past seven years among US large-capital companies. As the girl on Wall Street serves to renew interest and fervor over gender equality in the corporate world, we keep an eye on representation in government as well. Governments can further corporate-led initiatives with government-backed funding, programs, and legislation to enable progress on training opportunities, equal pay, and work-life balance to build and sustain female engagement in all levels of business. The devil is in the details—policies and regulations sort of details—but it is promising that as with corporate boards, during the last two decades, the share of women parliamentarians has doubled, increasing from 10.8 percent in 1997 to 21.2 percent in 2016.

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2015-16 State of the Future | The Millennium Project //hi.knoema.com/coinmtb/2015-16-state-of-the-future-the-millennium-project 2017-03-21T08:07:52Z Alina Buzanakova hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1293450
2015-16 State of the Future | The Millennium Project

Global intelligence on the future of the world in the palm of your hand KurzweilAI News Date of Event: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Description: The Center for Future Studies NEF of the Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazilian Node of the Milennium Project, will be presenting the SOF 2015-2016. The Millennium Project connects futurists around the world to improve global foresight. It is now an independent non-profit global participatory think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 3,500 people since the beginning of the project, selected by its 56 nodes around the world. The work is distilled in the annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, special studies, and integrated into its Global Futures Intelligence System.  The 2015-16 State of the Future is a compelling overview of humanity's present situation, challenges and opportunities, potentials for the future, and actions and policies that could improve humanity's outlook - in clear, precise, and readable text with unparalleled breadth and depth. "It is time for intolerance of irrelevant speeches and non-actions by leaders. The stakes are too high to tolerate business as usual," warns the Executive Summary of the report. Source: Millennium Development Goals

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Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Beijing+20 Review //hi.knoema.com/kcebmpg/asian-and-pacific-conference-on-gender-equality-and-women-s-empowerment-beijing-20-review 2016-07-19T08:06:38Z Alex Kulikov hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1847910
Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Beijing+20 Review

This conference will bring together ministers, senior officials from UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) member states and civil society representatives to review progress and remaining challenges in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. Participants will also discuss the Asia-Pacific regional report on progress in implementing the Platform, including achievements, challenges and priorities for gender equality. The conference is expected to result in an outcome document reconfirming commitment to action on gender equality, and outlining priorities for action in the next ten years. This outcome will serve as an input to the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 59), in March 2015. ESCAP and UN Women are organizing the conference as part of a series of regional consultations on the Beijing+20 Review.  

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Age at first marriage //hi.knoema.com/nleioce/age-at-first-marriage 2015-10-26T11:44:05Z Misha Gusev hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1000560
Age at first marriage

Age at first marriage varies significantly across countries. In general the higher is per capita income, the older are people who get married at first time. In developed European Countries like Germany, France, Italy, Sweeden, Norway and Finland the age at first marriage exceeds 30 years. On the other hand in low income African countries the age at first marriage is between 17-20 years for females and 23-25 years for males.

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Third Billion Index, 2012 //hi.knoema.com/gjldkyb/third-billion-index-2012 2013-12-25T16:11:08Z Alex Kulikov hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1847910
Third Billion Index, 2012

Booz & Company created the Third Billion Index, a ranking of 128 countries worldwide that is based on how effectively leaders are empowering women as economic agents in the marketplace. The index is a composite of established data on women’s economic and social status. The Third Billion Index is unique in that it focuses specifically on women in the world of work. As growing numbers of women enter the economic mainstream, they will have a profound effect on global business. A huge and fast-growing group of people are poised to take their place in the economic mainstream over the next decade, as employees, employers, producers, and entrepreneurs. This group’s impact on the global economy will be at least as significant as that of the billion-plus populations in both China and India. But its members have not yet attracted the attention they deserve. China and India each represent 1 billion emerging participants in the global marketplace, and this group of the same size, this “third billion,” is made up of women, in both developing and industrialized nations. Third Billion Index relies on two sub indices. Inputs: Assess government and private sector to improve the economic position of women Outputs:Represents observable aspects of women's participation in the national economy. Source: Third Billion Index 2012

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Gender Equality //hi.knoema.com/bhcurcb/gender-equality 2013-11-21T20:37:31Z International Comparisons hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1100180
Gender Equality

This page surveys gender equality by country and focuses on each country’s promotion of not only women’s rights, but women in positions of power.

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Males and Females: what's the difference? //hi.knoema.com/rpyhhic/males-and-females-what-s-the-difference 2012-06-16T17:50:48Z Misha Gusev hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1000560
Males and Females: what's the difference?

How has the the difference between men and women changed in recend decades?

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Males and Females: life expectancy and labor force participation //hi.knoema.com/qhuepzf/males-and-females-life-expectancy-and-labor-force-participation 2012-06-16T17:43:11Z Misha Gusev hi.knoema.com://hi.knoema.com/user/1000560
Males and Females: life expectancy and labor force participation

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