Did the cyberspace foster the entrepreneurship of women with children in rural China? by KaiChao Shao, Ruixue Ma, Lulu Zhao, Kai Wang, Joseph Kamber

“…Lastly, when looking the analysis of the transmission mechanism, this paper found that the role of Internet-usage in promoting rural mothers entrepreneurship was mainly through three factors – the gender equality effect, the information learning effect, and the financing effect. …”
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Economics of Smoked Farmed Catfish in Kainji Lake Basin, Nigeria by Julius Emeka Omeje, Anthonia Ifeyinwa Achike, Samuel Preye Jimmy, Queen Chilaka Manuwuike

“…The average gender ratio between the men, women and youths was 0.80, indicating a near gender equality in terms of value of fixed assets, revenue, employees and wage. …”
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Making the Invisible Visible: The Pandemic and Migrant Care Work in Long-Term Care by Kai Leichsenring, Selma Kadi, Cassandra Simmons

“…In spite of upcoming political debates regarding the regularisation of live-in care, including issues of wages and working conditions, the visibility of migrant live-in care remains tightly connected to the further development of care regimes and the acknowledgement of unpaid work as a precondition for gender equality and equal opportunities in a European and subsequently in a global dimension.…”
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Decolonizing the Gender and Land Rights Debate in India: Considering Religion and More-than-Human Sociality in Women’s Lived Land Relatedness by Catrien Notermans, Luna Swelsen

“…The article disentangles the complex issue of why women do not respond eagerly to Indian state policies that for a long time have promoted gender equality in the domain of land rights. In reaction to the dominant feminist debate on land rights, the authors introduce religion and more-than-human sociality as analytical foci in the examination of women’s responsiveness to land legislation. …”
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Using markers for digital engagement and social change: Tracking meaningful narrative exchange in transmedia edutainment with text analytics techniques by Roel O Lutkenhaus, Hua Wang, Arvind Singhal, Jeroen Jansz, Martine PA Bouman

“…Four markers were introduced in an Indian melodramatic television serial, Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon ( I, A Woman, Can Achieve Anything ), which was part of a larger transmedia edutainment initiative in India to promote sanitation, family planning, and gender equality. These markers served as anchors for audience engagement with the originally intended messaging embedded in the narratives as well as for program monitoring and evaluation. …”
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Prioritizing gender equity and intersectionality in Canadian global health institutions and partnerships. by Bianca Carducci, Emily C Keats, Michelle Amri, Katrina M Plamondon, Jeannie Shoveller, Onome Ako, F Gigi Osler, Carol Henry, Nitika Pant Pai, Erica Di Ruggiero

“…Despite governmental efforts to close the gender gap and global calls including Sustainable Development Goal 5 to promote gender equality, the sobering reality is that gender inequities continue to persist in Canadian global health institutions. …”
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Signs of a turning tide in social norms and attitudes toward abortion in Ethiopia: Findings from a qualitative study in four regions by Kathryn A. O’Connell, Addisalem T. Kebede, Bereket M. Menna, Mengistu T. Woldetensay, Sara E. Fischer, Ghazaleh Samandari, Jemal K. Kassaw

“…These efforts should consider gender equality to ensure enduring changes for women’s reproductive choice throughout the country.…”
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Dinamika Hukum Keluarga Islam dan Isu Gender di Iran: Antara Pemikiran Elit Sekuler dan Ulama Islam by Fathonah K. Daud, Aden Rosadi

“…As a result, the laws become repressive against women, except in the field of inheritance which provides gender equality. While there have been many highly educated women in Iran, since 2006 many women have filed for divorce. …”
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Application of Contra Legem Principles in Judicial Rulings on Joint Property Characteristics by Helmy Ziaul Fuad, Tohir Luth, Siti Hamidah, Rachmi Sulistyarini

“…It highlights the evolving legal landscape and the importance of equitable distribution in contemporary law, underscoring the need to understand judicial reasoning in an era increasingly focused on fairness and gender equality. The study closely examines cases from religious courts, highlighting a trend in which judges have awarded a disproportionate share of community property to wives. …”
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Is a progressive law accelerating the longstanding snail’s pace? Women on corporate boards in Portugal by Sara Falcão Casaca, Maria João Guedes, Susana Ramalho Marques, Nuno Paço

“…One of the fundamental challenges lying ahead is to move from a greater numerical gender balance to substantive gender equality in the boardroom, while also increasing the representation of women in positions of power and with influence over decision-making.…”
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Getting More Women on Boards: Cultural and Institutional Antecedents That Matter by Gillian Warner-Søderholm, Patricia Gabaldon Quinones, Cathrine Seierstad, Carl Åberg

“…Findings highlight important drivers of more women on boards such as gender equality in political empowerment and institutional settings; government-regulated maternity and paternity leave; specific legislative or soft quota policies; and societal cultural variables, such as (low) power distance and (high) assertiveness, as drivers of getting WoCB. …”
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A Critical Commentary on the SDGs and the Role of Tourism by Fizah Rajani, Karla A. Boluk

“…The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework provides a set of 17 goals aiming to enhance global well-being by reducing poverty, enhancing health outcomes, responding to gender equality, and mobilizing social justice and peace efforts. …”
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Economics of Smoked Farmed Catfish in Kainji Lake Basin, Nigeria by Julius Emeka Omeje, Anthonia Ifeyinwa Achike, Samuel Preye Jimmy, Queen Chilaka Manuwuike

“…The average gender ratio between the men, women and youths was 0.80, indicating a near gender equality in terms of value of fixed assets, revenue, employees and wage. …”
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Cold weather and Kashin-Beck disease by Wang Kewei, Yu Jun, Sun Dianjun

“…The epidemiological characteristics of KBD include agricultural area, early age of onset, gender equality, family aggregation, regional differences, and annual fluctuations. …”
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Disentangling the complexity of family policies: SPIN data with an application to Lithuania and Sweden, 1995-2015 by Katharina Wesolowski, Sunnee Billingsley, Gerda Neyer

“…It allows scholars to empirically push the frontiers of research on the intersection of gender equality, family and employment dynamics, and social policy. …”
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Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles by C. P. Cross, L. G. Boothroyd, C. A. Jefferson

“…Recent work showing positive correlations between indices of gender equality and the size of sex differences in behaviour has been argued to show support for ‘evolutionary’ over ‘social’ approaches. …”
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An analysis of national media coverage of a parental leave reform investigating sentiment, semantics and contributors by Arnault-Quentin Vermillet, Sara Engsig Krejberg, Julie Svinth Nielsen, Christine E. Parsons

“…The tendency for media coverage to be written with a non-neutral sentiment can be understood in terms of the enduring political tensions over gender equality, the role of the EU and families’ rights to self-organization. …”
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Editorial by María Del Pilar López Uribe, Edwin López Rivera

“…Gender bias in Colombian Economic History Courses”, y el libro publicado en 2020 por Ana María Iregui-Bohórquez, Ligia Alba Melo Becerra, María Teresa Ramírez G. y Ana María Tribín Uribe, The Path to Gender Equality in Colombia: Are We There Yet?. …”
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DISTRIBUTION OF FREE-TIME AND INFLUENCE TO THE WELFARE OF ADMINISTRATIVE WORKERS IN A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN CHIHUAHUA-MEXICO by Oscar Alejandro Viramontes-Olivas, José René Arroyo-Ávila, María del Rosario Alvidrez-Díaz, Ernesto Guerra-García

“…However, there were limitations such as lack of time, money and as a social factor, gender equality in family obligations. The concept of leisure has a still negative perception in society, so the conclusion of this work is that there is no general education towards the administration of free time and leisure among trusted collaborators at the university, which influences in physiological balance, comprehensive health and human development.…”
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Supporting early-career women researchers: lessons from a global mentorship programme by Vanessa Brizuela, Joy J. Chebet, Anna Thorson

“…Countries and institutions committed to strengthening research capacity need to focus on the holistic growth and motivation of individuals in a way that ensures gender equality.…”
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