Beyond the Gender Gap

GAP is the centerpiece of Government's approach to gender mainstreaming.

So business schools have been struggling with this gender grade gap.

Women's average hourly wagea as a percentage of men's average hourly wage Gender Pay Gap

Regional processes can bridge the gap between global perspectives and country specific concerns.

Improving water and sanitation facilities in schools could help in reducing the current gender gap in school enrolment.

Mongolia is characterized by an unusual reverse gender gap (more girls than boys) in both enrolment and completion.

Employment of women in the garment industry was reversing this trend to some extent, but the gender gap in education and training indicates that the gap in remuneration is likely to continue.

In order to facilitate sector ministries in formulating their gender responsive policies and programs, the National Development Planning Agency has designed a technical tool called Gender Analysis Pathway (GAP).

7 Filling the data gap Gender sensitive statistics for agricultural development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999.

14 Deere, Carmen Diana and Magdalena Leon, The gender asset gap land in Latin America , World Development, vol. 31, No. 6 (2003).

At the elementary school level, there was no gender gap between girls and boys, but there was a gap at the higher level of education girls completing high school amounted to only 12.8 percent while boys reached 17.5 percent.

She questioned the delegation's contention that there was no evidence that the gender pay gap was caused by discrimination it was more likely that there had been an insufficient gender analysis of the labour market.

Abe, strange to say, is the first Japanese leader to grasp that the underutilization of women s skills has been holding back Japan s economy. Japan ranked 105th out of 136 countries in the World Economic Forum s Global Gender Gap Report 2013, down from 101st place in 2012.

The Global Renewable Energy Fund of Funds should help close the financing gap for developing renewable energy markets and services worldwide.

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We play an essential role in putting gender in the global policy agenda.

Deeply concerned about the persistence of the gender gap in education, which is reflected by the fact that nearly two thirds of the world's adult illiterates are women,

Deeply concerned about the persistence of the gender gap in education, which is reflected by the fact that nearly two thirds of the world's adult illiterates are women,

Deeply concerned about the persistence of the gender gap in education, which is reflected by the fact that nearly two thirds of the world's adult illiterates are women,

Do global level gender mainstreaming thinking and expertise reach and enrich practice in the field?

The gender gap in access to credit remains a reality in Nicaragua, even taking into account the modest proportion of the overall population which has access to that resource.

It also calls for the closing of the gender gap in primary and secondary education by 2005 (para. 11.8), providing guidelines on measures to keep girls and adolescents in school.

But perhaps the other, bigger gap is what we call the hope gap.

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

There was no evidence that the gender pay gap in Ireland was caused by discriminatory pay practices, a recent study having identified child rearing as the main reason women refrained from working.

It can be said that the spiritual, material and technical assistance of the international community has been practically instrumental in improving the quality of women's life and narrowing the gender gap in Vietnam.

Closing Europe s Strategy Gap

There's a gap here.

The Transatlantic Growth Gap

Closing Asia s Security Gap

Closing the Skills Gap

The UN s Mandate Gap

The gap filling role

GAP Private Assistance Group

Addressing the Widening Gap

To address the enormous gender gap in basic education in southern Sudan, UNICEF supported the establishment of 250 community girls' schools, giving 9,000 young girls a chance to attend school for the first time.

Although progress has been slow since 2000, the need to provide education for all and bridge the gender gap has taken centre stage and increased awareness on female education and its importance to sustainable development.

Although progress has been slow since 2000, the need to provide education for all and bridge the gender gap has taken centre stage and increased awareness on female education and its importance to sustainable development.

It contains a number of global goals and targets related to the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, universal primary education, gender equality, health, environmental sustainability and global partnership for development.

It provoked the missile gap.

And this gap really narrows.

Moreover, the global financial crisis has created new puzzles. GDP in nearly all advanced economies is currently far below pre crisis projections, yet few expect the gap ever to be bridged.

24 Mariama Williams, Gender and governance in the multilateral trading system critical areas of decision making and global responses paper produced for Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa midterm review workshop, Accra, November 2002.

In the government sector, the unadjusted pay gap is 15 , and the adjusted pay gap was 3 in 2000.