How can information and communication technologies (ICT) be used to promote gender equality in developing nations and to empower women? This essay seeks to deal with that issue, and with the gender effects of the “information revolution.” While obvious linkages will be mentioned, the essay seeks to go beyond the obvious to deal with some of the indirect causal paths of the information revolutio...

In this review article, we argue that the transformations related to modernisation of Portuguese society triggered by implementation democracy did not fully accommodate gender equality. particular, when consider areas where most progress has been made in keeping with a broadly shared urge for modernisation, education and science; whereas women have contributed boosting population’s level educat...

This paper introduces the “Gendercheck Editor”, a tool to check German texts for gender discriminatory formulations. It relays on shallow rule-based techniques as used in the Controlled Language Authoring Technology (CLAT). The paper outlines major sources of gender imbalances in German texts. It gives a background on the underlying CLAT technology and describes the marking and annotation strat...

Expertise in ICT is scattered across globally. Mobility of the researchers, the effective way of imparting knowledge from people with expertise in a specialised branch of area has not yet been fully studied. The gender imbalance in ICT education has been reduced in the recent past; however in the higher level such as R & D, inequality exists considerably. The dependence of women on men hinders ...

The magnitude of the global youth employment challenge cannot be overstated. As many as 100 million young people around the world are unable to find decent work, and many more are underemployed, often in unsafe, dead-end seasonal jobs. Moreover, the world’s youth population is rapidly expanding, predominantly in developing countries, placing even greater pressure on governments and society to a...

1 Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná, Bandeirantes, Brasil. 2 Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. 3 Setor Estadual de Educação e Gênero, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, Curitiba, Brasil. 4 Grupo de Investigación de Salud Pública, Universidad de Alicante, CIBERESP, Alicante, España. 5 Coordenadoria de Programas Educacionais de ...

This study empirically assesses the influence of globalization on the institutional root causes of gender equality as measured by the new OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). We capture the multifaceted concept of globalization with the KOF index and its three sub-indices which measure the economic, social and political dimensions of globalization. Observing the progress of globali...

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...