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) ...

This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 countries. We employ measures of discrimination of women in the economy, in politics, and in society more generally. According to our results, discrimination in politics is important to individual well-being. Overall, men and women are more satisfied with their lives when societie...

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...

The rapid progress of many countries toward gender equality in education has been welldocumented. Of 106 countries, 83 achieved the Millennium Development target of parity in primary and secondary education by 2005; only 19 countries, most in sub-Saharan Africa, are off-track to meet the target of gender equality in primary and secondary school enrolment by 2015. While the progress on meeting t...

The UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of a...

introduction: based on the serious complications which are followed, hypertension is a common and asymptomatic health problem. this study aims to present a general statistics of the rate of the prevalence of systolic and diastolic hypertension in iranian men and women based on the age range through the systematic review and meta-analysis method. materials and methods: in this study of systemati...

Data are presented on young people's sexual victimisation and perpetration from 10 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain) using a shared measurement tool (N = 3480 participants, aged between 18 and 27 years). Between 19.7 and 52.2% of female and between 10.1 and 55.8% of male respondents reported having experienced...