Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing...

Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender...

Gender & Development is a peer-reviewed journal published triannually by Routledge and Oxfam to provide "promote, inspire, and support development policy...

The Gender Development Index (GDI) is an index designed to measure gender equality. GDI, together with the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), was introduced...

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) was a nationally operated health clinic in the United Kingdom that specialised in working with transgender...

Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the...

The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary...

Nations Development Programme's Human Development Reports. Gender equality can refer to equal opportunities or formal equality based on gender or refer...

While in ordinary speech, the terms sex and gender are often used interchangeably, in contemporary academic literature, the terms often have distinct meanings...

The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality. GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure...

of sex are congruent and consistent with the individual's gender identity. Gender expression typically reflects a person's gender identity, but this is...

inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) in its 2010 report, and in response to the latter the Gender Development Index (GDI) was introduced...

heritability of the conditions, the role of pre- and post-natal androgens in gender development, and gender identities among intersex people. The American...

of development aid. In the 1995 Human Development Report the United Nations Development Program introduced the Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment...

The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development (GID) Database, or GID-DB, contains more than 60 data indicators of gender equality. The GID-DB was introduced...

would help measure gender equality, the United Nations has created two measures: the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure...

Women's Report 2009: Measuring Gender Inequality in Africa - Experiences and Lessons from the African Gender and Development Index. United Nations Publications...

The GAD as perspective recognizes that gender concerns cut across all areas of development and therefore gender must influence government when it plans...

Gender, Technology and Development (GTD) is a double blind peer-reviewed journal that serves as a forum for exploring the linkages between gender relations...

Rights and Empowerment Are Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals". Gender and Development, Vol. 13, No. 1, Millennium Development Goals (March...

measure gender equality, as well as a number of prominent indices. The most prominent indices of gender equality include UNDP's Gender-related Development Index...

to development of away from its initial goals of addressing equity. Later, the Gender and development (GAD) approach proposed more emphasis on gender relations...

Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years...

and girls have positive impacts on economies. National and global development investments in women and girls often exceed their initial scope. Gender...

mainstream gender. More than half of bilateral finance for agriculture and rural development already mainstreams gender, but only 6 percent treats gender as fundamental...

The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) is a Cabinet-level government ministry of Uganda. The mandate of the ministry is to empower...

Culture and Development Decentralisation and Governance Gender and Development Human Development, Health and Education Industry and Trade Innovation and Technology...

petroleum and natural gas, electricity, coal, renewable energy, and energy efficiency and conservation. Protocol on Gender and Development – Member states...

Gender nonconformity or gender variance is gender expression by an individual whose behavior, mannerisms, and/or appearance does not match masculine or...