Brussels, Belgium – On 4-5 February 2025, UN Women convened a two-day Expert Group Meeting (EGM) to address one of the most persistent barriers to gender equality in political and public life: ...

from negative social norms to structural barriers such as gender-based violence and economic limitations.Speakers emphasized that women must actively participate in governance to influence ...

Nearly 90 percent of people hold at least one gender bias based on social norms. This percentage, from a global study by the United Nations Development Program, has barely changed over the past ...

As a social scientist who has studied ... anyone who doesn't follow stereotypical gender norms, whatever their sex or gender identity. For example, a female-sexed person, who identifies as a ...

Looks at a report from the ASA that explores the potential harm arising from gender stereotypes in advertising ... but there are covert examples of sexism disguised within modern campaigns. Social ...

Findings show that the gender land ownership patterns, norms limiting women’s role in agriculture, household structures, and gender agricultural productivity gaps are likely to result in lower ...

Gen Z men’s views of gender ... masculine norms are the underpinning foundations for a lot of societal problems – that might be harm to the self or harm to others,” Professor Roberts said. He ...