https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/commitment-reducing-inequality-index
Direct Link to Full 64-Page 2017 Report:
Summary – 32 Pages: https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/rr-commitment-reduce-inequality-index-170717-summ-en.pdf
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https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/science-update/are-eu-exports-gender-blind
Are EU Exports Gender-Blind? European Commission Analysis on Women’s Participation in EU Exporting Activities
June 20, 2017 - European Commission services in charge of Trade policy together with the Joint Research Centre have just published an analysis of female jobs associated to EU exports. The note reveals that while exports provide important employment opportunities for women across the EU (amounting to a total of almost 12 million jobs in 2011) a gender gap to the disadvantage of women persists.
A gender gap that persists in the EU
In 2011 only 38% of the jobs supported by exports to the rest of the world were taken up by women. Not only was this far from gender parity it was also below the share of women in total employment (46% in 2011). Female employment tends to concentrate in the less export-oriented sectors, notably in services such as health and social work, education and other community, social and personal services. This could explain the apparent gender gap to tap into employment opportunities. The differences across Member State's reflect also differences in terms of female participation in the labour market and sector specialisation.
Transparency International’s Mission is to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society. TI Core Values are: transparency, accountability, integrity, solidarity, courage, justice and democracy. Transparency International produces an annual Corruption Perceptions Index Report with individual country rankings. https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2016
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/sextortion_undermining_gender_equality
“Sextortion occurs where corruption and sexual exploitation intersect.”
In Tanzania, several women employees at a court began to fall ill one after the other. What would normally be overlooked as an innocuous seasonal virus proved to be fatal – the women had been infected with HIV. It was eventually discovered that the court clerk who supervised the women had forced them to sleep with him if they wanted to receive their pay for working overtime. He was HIV positive.
Direct Link to Full 64-Page 2017 Publication:
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/ipv-technicalpackages.pdf
Also Via SVRI – Sexual Violence Research Initiative
