Lessons Learned: Despite these limitations, the first round of joint gender programmes has generated much knowledge and new partnerships, which offer optimism for, and insight into, the possibilities for the future.
Our account is for Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, and Hungary, for we are fortunate in having early access to the data from the first round of the Gender and Generations Surveys (GGS) in the first three of these countries and to their close counterpart for Hungary. 2 All the surveys have used a random sample of women and men of all relevant ages.
Using data from the first round of the national Gender and Generations Surveys of Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria, and from a similar survey of Hungary, which were all collected in recent years, we study rates of entry into marital and non-marital unions.
A New York Times magazine story about women who've left the workforce to raise children — and are now struggling to get back into their professions — set off a new round of debate on the gender pay gap, work success for women and the career-home balancing act.
Dr. Bracken's assessment, which makes up 25 percent of a child's gifted score in the city, has been field tested for gender bias, and during a recent round of testing in Virginia, no gender differences in the score were recorded.
Yes, you can get round the gender apartheid of Islamist states by claiming that Muslim women like being dressed up like the cages of insomniac parrots and saying it's their choice, but is it similarly the choice of homosexuals in these countries to be routinely beaten, tortured, murdered?
The Walls and Bridges festival continued on Friday with another round of minilectures — speakers focused on gender identity and female representation — and a performance by the French choreographer Jeanne Mordoj.
As Joyce Macmillan observed at the first round of this year's Fringe First awards: "Gender is always a theme, but the mood this year is very much one of anger from women writers and performers in a time when some people are arguing the feminist revolution is over, but in some ways things are getting worse".
A gender specific issue also arose during round one regarding gender preferences of one's family physician.
Minister of gender equality, perhaps?
