Sentence examples for direction of gender from inspiring English sources

The Kingdom's small step in the direction of gender equality may therefore turn out to be nothing more than a symbolic and empty gesture.

"Our society is a veritable crazy quilt of contradictory practices and beliefs," Komarovsky wrote, about gender roles, in 1953, and, as the revisionists have demonstrated, if you pick out the right data you can identify trends in the direction of gender equality in the nineteen-fifties.

But given Obama's success at making society colorblind, it's naive to think that even a perfect cyborg of a woman president — say the melding of Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Madeleine Albright and Taylor Swift — would move us in the direction of gender blindness.

The impact direction of gender and education on models are consistent.

Also, recent evidence [ 24] points toward the direction of gender differences in reward-related decision processing under stress.

The only exception with a different direction of gender bias is haemorrhoids, which belongs to the ADS and pain cluster, but is less frequently found in females (6% vs. 10% in males).

Gender transformative interventions, which seek to reconfigure gender roles in the direction of more gender equitable relationships, [ 16] have demonstrated some success in changing norms and reducing risk behaviors [ 17– 17].

In addition, 11 out of 12 gender-transformative interventions revealed a statistically significant change in reconfiguring men's attitudes towards gender norms in the direction of more gender equality.

Thus, in contexts of rapidly shifting gender relations where gender-transformative work is embedded, requests to shift men in the direction of more gender equality can be met by men with feelings of a decline in masculine status or household authority, feelings of uselessness and a destabilised sense of what it means to be a man (Messner 1998; Sideris 2004).

While many men in gender-transformative programmes embrace women's rights and a shift in the direction of more gender equality, this can be extremely challenging for some men to accept and/or embrace due to their own feelings of threat and/or social disempowerment.

A few men in our studies from South Africa stated that worsened health outcomes could result from pressing men in the direction of greater gender equality: Men are violent against women as a direct action against equality.