Sentences with phrase «reduced gender gaps»

According to postgenderism — the belief that «men and women should use advanced biotechnologies to reduce the gender gap and create entirely new opport - unities for sexual expression» — we'd be much freer to explore both our masculine and feminine sides if our bodies and personalities were no longer constrained and limited by gendered traits.

Thus it appears that the literacy hour was more effective for boys and as such, reduced the gender gap at primary school.

Examination of results by gender reveals that the curriculum effort succeeds in reducing the gender gap in achievement experienced by urban African - American boys.

I believe strong female role models and mentorships are key to helping reduce the gender gap across all industries and sectors, and more needs to be done to help promote and encourage women hoping to progress into senior leadership roles.

Not exact matches

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

Instead, «it's telling us that getting women into management roles is necessary — but maybe not a sufficient condition for reducing the gender wage gap.»

One proposal was for a report detailing policies and goals to reduce any gender pay gap at Alphabet; another was for Alphabet to study the societal impact of hate speech and fake news enabled by Google's platforms.

The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) aims to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

But gender equality isn't considered to be one of these factors, since even in relatively gender - equal societies, the gap between men and women's preferences is only reduced, not eliminated.

It is a move aimed at helping reduce the gender pay gap.

Meanwhile Tory MEPs voted against a report on paid paternity leave, reducing the gender pay gap and combating violence against women, while UKIP MEPs opposed investigating tax evasion and avoidance, capping credit card charges and labelling processed meat with its country of origin.

The UK equality watchdog must be more aggressive to enforce changes that would reduce the size of the gender pay gap, Harriet Harman has said.

These findings suggest that eliminating the gender gap entirely would cause women to become 18 percentage points more likely to work full - time in the labour market and even out the time spent on housework by reducing it (mostly for women) by as much as seven hours per week.

Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.

These findings emphasise that gender differences in mathematics are not fixed and provide encouraging evidence that gender gaps in participation and engagement could also be reduced with targeted intervention.

The study concluded: «Changing the learning environment and designing the curriculum to identify and foster girls with high mathematical abilities would attract more girls and reduce the gender pay gap.»

Does the plan include targets or supports for reducing the school's achievement gaps based on race, gender, family income or other groups?

«Budget 2016 and Budget 2017 include many measures aimed at reducing the gender wage gap, encouraging greater workforce participation among women, and helping to combat poverty and violence.»

Commentary: Gender diversity in energy sector is critical to clean energy transition On International Women's Day, more needed to reduce diversity gap and encourage women participation 8 March 2018

We have the opportunity to address climate change in a way that reduces both, emissions and the gender gap.

If public shaming is going to be the stick used to coerce larger employers into reducing their gender pay gap, then the reporting should be an accurate reflection of the gender pay and bonus disparity within the workplace.

There has been an effort by recent governments to reduce the gender pay gap, however their success has been limited.

The purpose of the Regulations is to help reduce the «gender pay gap» — or the difference in average earnings between men and women.

This should generally explain the reasons for the results and give details about actions that are being taken to reduce or eliminate the gender pay gap.

Whilst these roles are competitively rewarded with reference to the market, the fact that so many of them are held by women has the effect of reducing the average pay of women in our firm, impacting our overall gender pay gap.»

«To help reduce the gender pay gap in Britain's workplaces, large employers will have to report on differences between men and women's pay from April this year.

While employers may already be taking steps to improve gender equality and reduce or eliminate their gender pay gap, this process will support and encourage action.

The findings come despite equal opportunities laws and efforts to reduce the gender pay gap.

But gender equality isn't considered to be one of these factors, since even in relatively gender - equal societies, the gap between men and women's preferences is only reduced, not eliminated.