Gender Discrimination
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but it primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to stereotypes and gender roles, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another. Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence. Gender discrimination may encompass sexism, and is discrimination toward people based on their gender identity or their gender or sex differences. Gender discrimination is especially defined in terms of workplace inequality. It may arise from social or cultural customs and …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …
Security 2021, 56–61). While the degree of gender discrimination (whether in law or social practice) differs …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English
This study was published by the Centre for Education and Communication, a resource centre based in New Delhi. It was released in December 2023. The research was funded by Rosa …
sector is infamous for high instances of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. 27 Sonia George …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 March 2023 English
This report – the 24th edition of the Women & Men in India reports – was published in March 2023 by the Social Statistics Division at the National Statistical Office …
poverty, discrimination and exploitation. Gender discrimination means women often end up in insecure, low-wage … factors, educational qualifications and gender discrimination in terms of wages and opportunities at …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 January 2023 English
The International Labour Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, released this report on January 16, 2023. Written by Daniel Samaan, Ekkehard Ernst, Miguel Sanchez Martinez, Richard Horne and …
opportunities for certain groups, discouragement, gender discrimination and other factors that inhibit participation …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2023 English
UN Women and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs published this report in 2023. It analyses progress on gender equality across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a …
that promote gender equality and address gender discrimination are fundamental to enabling change (Target … PROGRESS ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Gender discrimination comes in many forms and remains commonplace …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 31 March 2022 English
This report – the 23rd issue in the Women & Men in India series – was published on March 31, 2022, by the Social Statistics Division at the National Statistical …
women’s issues and work toward ending gender discrimination. • The representation of women in Central …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 2 March 2022 English
The Pew Research Center, based in Washington D.C., released this report on March 2, 2022, as part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project. The project examines the impact of …
of this Overview covers perceptions of gender discrimination; how Indian attitudes on gender compare … 22%, respectively). In general, views on gender discrimination do not differ much – if at all – between … While most Indians do not perceive a lot of gender discrimination in their country, Indians are modestly … quarter of Indians say there is a lot of gender discrimination % of Indian adults who say there is a … 52% of respondents reporting widespread gender discrimination. This mirrors the broader pattern of respondents …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2022 English
Shakti Shalini, a non-governmental organisation based out of New Delhi, published this report in 2022. The report identifies households with children where domestic violence is prevalent to understand types of …
and girls in order to gauge the existing gender discrimination in the households surveyed. The yellow bars …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 21 December 2021 English
This Bill seeks to increase the legal age for marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. It aims to amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, which it …
imperative to tackle gender inequality and gender discrimination and to put in place adequate measures to …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 3 August 2021 English
pressures created by state authorities, dearth of infrastructures which enable reporting, gender discrimination and lack of security are some of the major systemic hurdles which obstruct free reporting …
my religion matters”. Challenges of gender discrimination in media persist in the region, despite …
