PLSC 389E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gender Empowerment Measure, Glass Ceiling, Gender Equality
13 Jul 2017
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Gender equality pay equity: korea: . 60-65 per dollar. Gender equality as a political cleavage one of the important cleavages in korea, between progressive and resistant. Gender and intersectionality have to understand how complex these di erent types of heritages can be: the intersections of di erent bias and gender bias. 2000: 30% quota for nomination of women for public o ce. Many improvements one gal stipulations and in the public sector. Major challenges: glass ceiling violence against women married women. How do we know the degree of gender equality? where would you start research? law empirical evidence on pay equity, employment rate, level of education two indexes by undp: Gender-related development index include: life expectancy, literacy rate, school enrollment rate, income ratio whether or not there is same access to basic health services, education, opportunity, etc. Gender empowerment measure women in important political positions. Economic inequality labor market participation: men: 73. 1% women: 49. 2%
