Peacemaking efforts are usually negotiated at high political levels where indigenous people are rarely represented, despite forming the majority of combatants.
What would have once sounded like a far-fetched feminist fantasy – namely women forming the majority of a parliament – is a reality in one country in the world, Rwanda.
However this has not translated into advancement in the workplace, with women forming the majority of skilled workers in just 68 countries and the majority of leadership roles in only four — Colombia, the Philippines, Fiji and Ghana.
With women forming the majority of primary caregivers of children, living in poverty perpetuates the cycle of being judged and treated with a lack of respect: this, is turn, contributes to the devaluation of women.
And the authors report statements by witnesses in Mosul and Tal Afar who have seen armed children wearing attire similar to ISIS fighters and underage children aged 13, 14 and 15 forming the majority of ISIS patrols inside both cities.
Despite forming the majority of the national population, the East Pakistani population continued to be under-represented in the civil and military services, and received a minority of state funding and other government help.
Byzantine Greeks, forming the majority of the Byzantine Empire proper at the height of its power, gradually came under the dominance of foreign powers with the decline of the Empire during the Middle Ages.
First, the RUM research, although forming the majority of ATM research, is yet to show a substantial effect in improving the drug utilisation patterns.
Finally, the outer domain, distal from the trimer axis and forming the majority of the solvent exposed surface of the Env spike, is heavily glycosylated and conformationally invariant.
In extracts of RT, with ledene, ledol and palustrol forming the majority of the composition, repellence has been reported towards various arthropods [ 41, 42].
Over the past century, women have moved from practically exclusion from medical schools towards forming the majority of new graduates in medicine, a trend referred to as the "feminization of medicine".
