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  2. Gender Inequality Index - Wikipedia

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    Countries by Gender Inequality Index (Data from 2019, published in 2020). Red denotes more gender inequality, and green more equality.. The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary edition by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

  3. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Feminism. Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the ...

  4. Tarana Burke - Wikipedia

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    MeToo Movement – official website. Tarana Burke (born September 12, 1973) is an American activist from New York City, who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began using MeToo to help other women with similar experiences to stand up for themselves. Over a decade later, in 2017, #MeToo became a viral hashtag when Alyssa Milano and other ...

  5. Gender Development Index - Wikipedia

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    The Gender Development Index ( GDI) is an index designed to measure gender equality . GDI, together with the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), was introduced in 1995 in the Human Development Report written by the United Nations Development Program. These measurements aimed to add a gender-sensitive dimension to the Human Development Index (HDI).

  6. Gender Empowerment Measure - Wikipedia

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    The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.

  7. International Women's Day - Wikipedia

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    Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030 2018 Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women's lives 2019 Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change 2020 "I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women's Rights" 2021 Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world 2022

  8. LGBT culture in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia LGBT community has roots as far back as the 1930s and 1940s. Early gay networks would meet privately at underground house parties and other private venues within Center City, West Philadelphia, and Germantown. [1] In tandem with the substantial post-WWII expansion of American suburbia, which resulted in white-collar families ...

  9. Roopa Dhatt - Wikipedia

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    Roopa Dhatt is an Indian American physician, an Assistant Professor and Internal Medicine Hospitalist at Georgetown University Medical Center, and at a community hospital, Washington, DC. In 2015 she co-founded Women in Global Health, which aims to reduce gender disparity among global health leaders, and subsequently became the organisation's ...