A veil is an article of clothing, which is intended to cover some part of the head or face. A veil is almost exclusively worn by women, although some instances exist where men also wear a veil. The first recorded instance of veiling for women is recorded in an Assyrian legal text from the 13th […]
Vera Rubin (1928- ) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her contribution to astronomy was the discovery of the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. Rubin is currently a research astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She […]
Washington, D.C., March 8, 2011 – The announced today that its Village Phone program has helped provide credit to nearly 6,000 women and trained close to 10,000 to set up phone service businesses in , , and , increasing the economic participation of women in some of Africa’s most rural communities. Table of Contents 1 […]
Table of Contents 1 Violence against girls worldwide 1.1 North America 1.2 Latin America 1.3 The fight against violence 2 References Violence against girls worldwide Sexual and physical violence against adolescent girls is an enormous international problem, one that claims victims in practically every country and culture. The World Health Organization estimated in 2002 that […]
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro (born October 18, 1929) is a political leader, former president and publisher. Chamorro was the first, and to date only, woman to hold that position in Nicaragua, and furthermore was the first elected female head of government in Latin America and the second North American woman president, (following only Ertha […]
Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. She wrote often on the inequalities and discrimination women face, most famously in the essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) and in Orlando […]
From Data to Policy Action: Tackling Gender-Based Discrimination in Social Institutions in Southern Africa Virtual High-Level Policy Dialogue 15 September 2021 2:00 – 4:30 PM (South Africa Time) Please kindly register here Interpretation in English, Portuguese and French will be provided. The OECD Development Centre, in partnership with the African Development Bank Group and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, invites you to a virtual high-level policy dialogue on gender equality in Southern Africa on 15 September 2021 at 2:00 PM South Africa Time for […]
From Data to Policy Action: Tackling Gender-Based Discrimination in Social Institutions 12 July 2021 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM (GMT) Please kindly register here BACKGROUND The OECD Development Centre’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) sheds light on the formal and informal laws, social norms and practices which constitute structural barriers that women and girls face throughout their lifetime, while the Africa Gender […]
Tackling Gender-based Discrimination in Social Institutions in Africa: From Dialogues to Policy Action 2 December 2021 2:00 – 4:00 Paris time Register here: https://bit.ly/3C50TOt The OECD Development Centre, in partnership with the African Development Bank Group and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and with the support of the Austrian Development Agency, invites you to the Virtual Launch of […]
From Data to Policy Action: Tackling Gender-Based Discrimination in Social Institutions Virtual Workshop in West Africa 27 April 2021 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (CET) Please kindly register here The OECD Development Centre, in partnership with the Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SWAC), invites you to a virtual workshop with grassroots organisations working on gender equality in West Africa on 27 April 2021 at 10:00 Paris time for an interactive policy discussion. Building on the OECD’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), the virtual workshop aims to track […]
