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Amartya Sen, the ebullient Nobel Prize-winning economist, has developed a gauge of gender inequality that is a striking reminder of the stakes involved.†
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gender = male, female, or any of many trans categories
Every year, at least another 2 million girls worldwide disappear because of gender discrimination.†
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We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world.†
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In 2001 the World Bank produced an influential study, Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, arguing that promoting gender equality is crucial to combat global poverty.†
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In 2001 the World Bank produced an influential study, Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, arguing that promoting gender equality is crucial to combat global poverty.†
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UNICEF issued a major report arguing that gender equality yields a "double dividend" by elevating not only women but also their children and communities.†
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"Gender inequality hurts economic growth," Goldman Sachs concluded in a 2008 research report that emphasized how much developing countries could improve their economic performance by educating girls.†
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When the Joint Chiefs of Staff hold discussions of girls' education in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as they did in 2008, you know that gender is a serious topic that fits squarely on the international affairs agenda.†
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We will try to lay out an agenda for the world's women focusing on three particular abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution; gender-based violence, including honor killings and mass rape; and maternal mortality, which still needlessly claims one woman a minute.†
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The Rapex is a reflection of the gender-based violence that is ubiquitous in much of the developing world, inflicting far more casualties than any war.†
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Both offices would press to make gender-based violence a diplomatic priority.†
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In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that men are the villains.†
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More broadly, Sri Lanka invests in health and education generally, and pays particular attention to gender equality.†
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That's an exaggeration, but it underscores a central reality: AIDS is often a disease of gender inequality.†
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As Stephen Lewis, the former UN ambassador for AIDS, puts it: "Gender inequality is driving the pandemic.†
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With population pressures and environmental pressures, and economic pressures in much of the world, women will bear the brunt of gender-based violence even more than now.†
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The Koran explicitly endorses some gender discrimination: A woman's testimony counts only half as much as a man's, and a daughter inherits only half as much as a son.†
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Still, many modern-minded Muslims are pushing for greater gender equality.†
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Muhammad himself was progressive on gender issues, but some early successors, such as the Caliph Omar, were unmitigated chauvinists.†
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Americans not only come across as patronizing but also often miss the complexity of gender roles in the Islamic world.†
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Farsighted Muslim leaders worry that gender inequality blocks them from tapping their nations' greatest unexploited economic resource—the half of the population that is female.†
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He argues that one of the key forces working in Europe's favor was openness to new ideas, and that one of the best gauges of that openness was how a country treated its women: The economic implications of gender discrimination are most serious.†
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" But this is not necessarily evidence of gender bias, since Iranians call baby girls an equivalent: nanaz tala, or "golden pubic area.†
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"The evidence, in most cases, suffers from obvious biases: educated girls come from richer families and marry richer, more educated, more progressive husbands," notes Esther Duflo of MIT, one of the most careful scholars of gender and development.†
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It may be politically incorrect to note these kinds of gender differences, but they are obvious to aid workers and national leaders alike.†
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Women leaders were then judged by gender-neutral standards.†
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An Indian-style quota of women officeholders seems to break down gender barriers so that afterward the political system becomes more democratic and open.†
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In a larger sense, China has emerged as a model on gender issues for developing countries: It evolved from repressing women to emancipating them, underscoring that cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.†
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Challenges remain, but these countries remind us that gender barriers can be dismantled, to the benefit of men and women alike.†
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If we believe firmly in certain values, such as the equality of all human beings regardless of color or gender, then we should not be afraid to stand up for them; it would be feckless to defer to slavery, torture, foot-binding, honor killings, or genital cutting just because we believe in respecting other faiths or cultures.†
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Yet the spread of education and job opportunities for young women led to a rapid recalibration of perceptions concerning gender.†
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Labor-intensive factories would create large numbers of jobs for women, and they would bring in more capital—and gender equality.†
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Almost halfway around the world, a country very different from China is also emerging as a model on gender issues.†
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As these girls grow up, she continued, "they join the ranks of illiterate girls, increasing the gender gap between men and women.... Girls who are denied access to education are more likely to be trapped in a cycle of poverty and disease, forced into child marriage and prostitution, become victims of sex trafficking, domestic violence, and so-called honor killings.†
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We hope to see a broad movement emerge to battle gender inequality around the world and to push for education and opportunities for girls around the world.†
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These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.†
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Research about women tends to come from people who care passionately about justice and gender, and who have convictions before they begin their studies.†
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In short, all of us need to become more cosmopolitan and aware of global repression based on gender.†
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But as we were writing this book, two new studies pointed to another approach to revolutionize fertility and gender in the villages: television.†
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In addition, the UN should have a prominent agency to support gender equality (there is one in theory, UNIFEM, but it is minuscule).†
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The first would be a $10 billion effort over five years to educate girls around the world and reduce the gender gap in education.†
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(1) (gender as in: gender discrimination)
male or female

or (especially regarding self-identification): the state of being male, female, or in any of many trans categories

While the word sex can almost always be substituted for this meaning of gender, gender is typically used in reference to cultural or social differences, while sex is typically used for biological differences.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, gender can refer to a grammatical categories. In some languages (not modern English), nouns that are not distinguishable by biological sex, can still have a feminine or masculine gender.

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