Public Attention to Gender Equality and Board Gender Diversity

Gender Equality and Democracy

Although democratic institutions existed long before gender equality, at this point in history, growing emphasis on gender equality is a central component of the process of democratization. Support for gender equality is not just a consequence of democratization. It is part of a broad cultural change that is transforming industrialized societies and bringing growing mass demands for increasingl...

Gender Equality and Equity

Gender Equality 1 Running Head: Gender Equality and Gender Hostility Gender Equality and Gender Hostility among University Students: a Multi-national Analysis*

This study assessed the extent of women’s hostility toward men and men’s hostility toward women among 18,093 university students who participated in the International Dating Violence Study in 27 nations. Results revealed a high prevalence of low-level hostility among both sexes. We also tested the theory that inequality generates antagonism, hypothesizing that there would be less hostility betw...

Gender equality and violent behavior: how neighborhood gender equality influences the gender gap in violence.

Using a sample of 703 African American adolescents from the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS) along with census data from the year 2000, we examine the association between neighborhood-level gender equality and violence. We find that boys' and girls' violent behavior is unevenly distributed across neighborhood contexts. In particular, gender differences in violent behavior are less pron...

[Men, health and public policies: gender equality in question].

The scope of this article is to pose questions on the theme of Men, Health and Public Policies to render debate on the subject viable, based on theoretical and empirical references related to these issues. Initially, some historical landmarks on the theme are presented to provide guidelines for debate. An overview of the gender agenda in public policies is then presented to introduce the discus...