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  2. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    The pursuit of gender equality remains a global challenge. With long-standing gender gaps continuing across countries in all sectors of social and economic life. The Pursuit of Gender Equality: An Uphill Battle was released at the Women's Forum in Paris to highlight the issue (according to a global OECD report). [59] Understanding gender ...

  3. Gender equality - Wikipedia

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    World bodies have defined gender equality in terms of human rights, especially women's rights, and economic development. [25] [26] The United Nation's Millennium Development Goals Report states that their goal is to "achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women". Despite economic struggles in developing countries, the United Nations is ...

  4. Feminism and equality - Wikipedia

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    Feminism and equality came in waves over the course of history, seeing some of the first actions in the early 18th century. According to Martha Rampton, a professor and director at Pacific University, "The wave formally began at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 when three hundred men and women rallied to the cause of equality for women. [8]"

  5. Feminism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    She compared the position of women to that of sharecroppers and spoke out against the emotional and intellectual dissatisfaction of American women. [29] Stern's essay was one of the first arguments that addressed female liberation in the context of the domestic sphere. However, the 1950s did witness a return to traditional gender roles and values.

  6. Women's rights - Wikipedia

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    Switzerland was one of the last European countries to establish gender equality in marriage: married women's rights were severely restricted until 1988, when legal reforms providing gender equality in marriage, abolishing the legal authority of the husband, came into force (these reforms had been approved in 1985 by voters in a referendum, who ...

  7. Gender and development - Wikipedia

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    The World Bank's Gender Action Plan of 2007-10 is built upon the Bank's gender mainstreaming strategy for gender equality. The Gender Action Plan's objective was advance women's economic empowerment through their participation in land, labor, financial and product markets. [57] In 2012, the World Development Report was the first report of the ...

  8. Feminist theory - Wikipedia

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    Feminist communication theorists also addressed how women were represented in the media and how the media "communicated ideology about women, gender, and feminism". [ 101 ] [ 102 ] Feminist communication theory also encompasses access to the public sphere, whose voices are heard in that sphere, and the ways in which the field of communication ...

  9. Female education - Wikipedia

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    The government plays an important role in advancing gender equality in education. One of its roles is to create a good environment through laws and policies to promote women's education to achieve gender equality. Beyond the law, the government must also set up a clear framework.