Sentences with phrase «change gender inequality»

Can the K - 12 classroom be a place to change gender inequality?

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Her firm was started by capitalizing on gender inequality, she added, to change the status quo in the industry.

This approach recognizes that the family crisis is caused both by cultural changes and by social - systemic developments in areas of work, economics, child care and gender inequality.

The goals were crafted to engage all member countries — which are expected to integrate the SDGs into their policies for the next decade and a half — in addressing the root causes of global poverty, gender inequality and climate change.

Productivity: limited knowledge of farming techniques, limited access to planting materials, pests and disease Environmental: climate change, aging trees, unfertile soil Social: limited access to education, gender inequality, fewer leadership roles for women Financial: poverty, lack of access to finance

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column Mildred Dresselhaus, an 83 - year - old physicist at MIT, reflects on gender inequality in science, including changes she has observed over the years and the work that still needs to be done.

This year, issues such as sustainable food (In Defense of Food), gender inequality in the tech industry (CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap), and homelessness (Dogtown Redemption) engaged audiences and provided hope and opportunities for positive cgender inequality in the tech industry (CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap), and homelessness (Dogtown Redemption) engaged audiences and provided hope and opportunities for positive cGender Gap), and homelessness (Dogtown Redemption) engaged audiences and provided hope and opportunities for positive change.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

Talk to us about artificial intelligence, Big Science, climate change, gender and racial inequalities in science careers.

Would you like to see your investment dollars fight climate change, protect vulnerable populations, or reduce gender inequality?

Development challenges, such as gender inequality and low levels of education, and other differences among communities in age, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and governance can influence vulnerability to climate change impacts in complex ways.

It faces tremendous poverty, a changing climate, gender inequality, fluctuating markets, societies that condone child labour, and human greed that always wants the cheapest deal and doesn't want to pay a fair price for it.

Despite the surface similarities shared by both genders, women experience climate change more adversely than men due to fundamental inequalities and discrimination.

While there is no single approach to gender inequality and the linkages to climate change adaptation planning, implementation and M&E, countries often face similar challenges.

MR: Climate change exacerbates existing inequalities, including gender inequalities.

Lorena Aguilar, Global Senior Gender Advisor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, put it clearly when she stated that «climate change exacerbates existing inequalities and slows progress towards gender equality -LSB-...] gender equality is a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction -LSB-...] these inequalities are magnified by climate change.&Gender Advisor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, put it clearly when she stated that «climate change exacerbates existing inequalities and slows progress towards gender equality -LSB-...] gender equality is a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction -LSB-...] these inequalities are magnified by climate change.&gender equality -LSB-...] gender equality is a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction -LSB-...] these inequalities are magnified by climate change.&gender equality is a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction -LSB-...] these inequalities are magnified by climate change.»

By Laids Mias - Cea 2018-03-08T13:36:01 +00:00 March 7th 2018 Categories: GLOBAL URBAN DEBATES, INCLUSION Tags: climate change, climate change adaptation, gender, gender equality, gender inequality, gender - sensitive urban development, inclusion, inclusive urban planning, Local Governance, SDGs, South - East Asia, sustainable urban development

The document emphasizes the importance of integrating gender in CSA practices, which is to reduce gender inequalities and ensure that men and women can equally benefit from any intervention in the agricultural sector to reduce risks linked to climate change.

This technical document aims at «demystifying» gender mainstreaming and providing practical guidance on how to systematically address existing or potential gender inequalities specific to UNIDO's energy and climate change interventions.

There is good reason to predict that climate change will cause devastation especially in the poor regions of the world, where population growth, poverty, the pollution of water and air, inequalities between classes and genders, AIDs epidemics and corrupt, authoritarian governments all overlap.

climate change does not impact everyone in a community or country in the same way; greater attention to the structural inequalities and gendered power relations that impact resilience and adaptation, particularly in the context of small - holder agriculture, pastoralism, fisheries and forestry is crucial for effective adaptation planning in the agriculture sectors.

A recent U.N. survey of environmental ministries worldwide showed that only four or five countries actually included gender and economic inequality concerns in their climate change policies, despite the warning from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the impact climate change «will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries.&change policies, despite the warning from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the impact climate change «will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries.&Change (IPCC) that the impact climate change «will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries.&change «will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries.»

More recently, as the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, she persuaded many of the most powerful men in the country to publicly commit to being part of a program — the Male Champions of Change — to take action on gender inequality.

My studies contribute to debates about the uneven change in gender inequalities, the role of family processes in exacerbating inequalities across families, and the relevance of public policies in mediating these processes.

Sayer argues that these changes, which are concentrated among the college - educated, have more to do with maintaining class advantages than perpetuating gender inequality.