“Forward for Equality” is a special feature written by the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) about the Philippine Delegation’s participation in the 69th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW) held from March 10 to 21, 2025 at the UN Headquarters in New York City. After the two week …
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This paper gathers a wide range of indicators into distinctive profiles to show how configurations of gender economic inequality are shaped by both welfare state strategies and gender role ideologies. When multiple aspects of gender inequality are assembled together, it becomes evident that all societies exhibit both gender-egalitarian and in-egalitarian features. These tradeoffs can best …
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The “transactional sex” model, which is increasingly used to explain the continued spread of HIV throughout sub-Saharan Africa and consequently inform policy, overlooks certain important cultural and socioeconomic aspects of women’s sexual choices. This chapter is based on a one-year anthropological field study in rural Malawi on the impacts of improved economic security on women’s …
