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Today’s Political Puzzle: Hierarchy, Equality and Legitimacy
I proceed in four steps. First, I indicate what is to be understood by hierarchy and equality and the different areas in which this understanding can...
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Gender equality progress in a decade: health, education, and employment
Health, education and employment not only reflect women’s status, but also affect other dimensions of the status. This commentary reviews changes in...
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Gender Equality: Missing Ecosystem to Realize De Jure Equality
The author analyzes why ‘gender equality’ continues to be an elusive goal both globally and nationally (India). She focuses on the many initiatives...
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Social Values and Subjective Socioeconomic Status Matter for Happiness in Korea
Politics around the world has become polarized over values and perceptions of equality and fairness. How are values and subjective socioeconomic...
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(In-)equality in Socialism and Communism
Equality in socialist and communist thought refers not only to equal rights and duties or equal respect but strongly also to economic equality. At...
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Parity, paradigms, and possibilities: a constructive approach to advancing women’s equality
Prompted by the midpoint assessments of achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5), this article considers the pattern...
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EU MECI: A Network-Structured Indicator for a Union of Equality
How are the Member States performing in their challenge toward a fairer and more equal Europe? Based on the data measured by the EU Multidimensional...
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Gender Equality, Equity, and Equal Opportunities
The history of equality is part of our existence and one of the fundamental pillars of democracy. However, it is not a natural entity, but a concept...
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The lost boys? A call to examine gender equality attitudes and the men of Gen Z
Although over the past decade there has been deceleration, stalling and even reversal in global gender parity measures, overall attitudes to gender...
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Re-imagining the Gender Gap in Economic Participation and Opportunities: Assessing the Link Between Sustainable Development and Gender Equality in Some African Countries
Sustainable development is achieved when policies are effectively implemented to foster the well-being of all. Research on equality has generally...
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The Construction of Municipal Level Racial Equality Policies
Policies that focus on racial issues span multiple areas, requiring the recognition of intersecting inequalities, an intersectoral approach to the...
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Gender Equality as EU Strategy
Gender equality is an increasingly topical issue, but it has deep historical roots. The principle of gender equality found its legitimacy, even if...
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Climate Change and Gender Equality
Climate change is having a significant negative impact on the lives of individuals around the globe. But this impact is not distributed equally. A...
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The Main Indicators of Gender (in)Equality
The topic of gender (in)equality is increasingly at the centre of international debate due to its numerous implications on our society’s...
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Foreign Aid, Norm Diffusion, and Local Support for Gender Equality: Comparing Evidence from the World Bank and China’s Aid Projects in Africa
Does foreign aid change local attitudes toward gender equality? Drawing on a theory of norm diffusion through intervention, we contend that when...
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Factors determining the degree of gender equality within the European Union
This paper aims to identify the major determinants of the structural differences in gender equality for EU countries, using tools from partial order...
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Beyond Inclusion Through Female Empowered Leadership: Status and Strategy in Iceland
Many regions of the world have begun to recognize the value of female leadership. However, very few models have emerged through which female...
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Intra-household Financial Inequality, Gender Equality, and Marital Dissolution
As households have become increasingly financialized, family scholars have considered the consequences of assets, credit, and debt for family...
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Hierarchies and the Complementarity of Authority and Equality
Authority involves hierarchy and is a component of many patterns of useful collective action, capacity-building for addressing needs, and social...