Culture, Children and Couple Gender Inequality

Gender Inequality in the Couple Relationship and Leisure-Based Physical Exercise

AIMS To analyse whether gender inequality in the couple relationship was related to leisure-based physical activity, after controlling for earlier physical activity and confounders. METHODS Data drawn from the Northern Swedish Cohort of all pupils in their final year of compulsory schooling in a town in the North of Sweden. The sample consisted of 772 respondents (n = 381 men, n = 391 women) ...

Gender inequality and severe malnutrition among children in Bangladesh

Bangladesh typifies many south-eastern countries where female children experience inferior health and uncertain survival, especially after the neonatal period. This paper attempts to study the gender inequality in nutritional status and the effects of various socioeconomic, demographic, and health-programme factors on gender inequality in a remote rural area of Bangladesh. Measurements of mid-u...

gender inequality and hiv prevalence

introduction: controversy over the relationship of gender inequality with health and its dimensions is not new concept for many years researchers have been discussing whether inequality could determine different levels of health in men and women. this paper examined the linkage between gender inequality in four key domains, economy, education, politics, and health and prevalence of hiv.   metho...

Poverty and Gender Inequality

Egalitarianism and Gender Inequality

egalitarian institutional reforms is a distinctive feature of modernity and postmodernity. This development, which dates at least to the Enlightenment, intensified throughout the twentieth century as formal legal rights were extended to previously excluded groups(e.g., women); wide-reaching institutional reforms were implemented to equalize life chances (e.g., bureaucratic personnel policies) a...