Gender equality, also known as sex equality or sexual equality, is the goal of the equality of the genders, stemming from a belief in the injustice of myriad forms of gender inequality. This goal includes making women's rights equal to men's and also making men's rights equal to women's, as follows.
Read more about Gender Equality: Concept, Efforts To Fight Inequality
Other articles related to "gender, gender equality, equality":
2004 Asylum Gender Guidelines were introduced by the Home Office of the United Kingdom to tackle issues involving women fleeing their countries. 2007 The Gender Equality Duty of the Equality Act 2006 came into effect in the United Kingdom ... It requires that public bodies promote equality of opportunity with a special focus on gender equality ...
... World Economic Forum ranked Belize 102nd out of 135 countries in its Global Gender Gap Report ... In 2013, the UN gave Belize a Gender Inequality Index score of 0.435, ranking it 79th out of 148 countries ...
... Gender equality has been one of China’s national policies ... Many organizations and centers for gender were established after the Fourth UN Conference on Women was held in Beijing in 1995 ... the conference and then signed the UN documents pledging gender equality, and official women’s organizations and feminist activists and scholars have been fighting against gender discrimination and ...
... According to Christian egalitarianism, gender equality in Christian church leadership (including pastors) and in Christian marriage is biblically sound ... It refers to a biblically-based belief that gender, in and of itself, neither privileges nor curtails a believer's gifting or calling to any ministry in the ...
... See also Gender inequality World bodies have defined gender equality in terms of human rights, especially women's rights, and economic development ... UNICEF describes that gender equality "means that women and men, and girls and boys, enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities and protections ... treated exactly alike." The United Nations Population Fund has declared that women have a right to equality ...
Famous quotes containing the words equality and/or gender:
“I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro ... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.”
—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)