Group items tagged

The way women are treated in comparison to men in work.

This article shows how despite high literacy rate of females in China, the women face another obstacle; fair wages in the work place and promotion. The discrimination also occurs in the politics, with a very low percentage of the delegates being women. It shows how there is a long way to go until full equity in rights for women. 

chihi.

Gender equality is guaranteed in the Cambodian Constitution which prohibits all forms of discrimination against women (Article 45). Both men and women should have equal opportunity to exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

When it comes to gender equality, Japan has no shortage of distressing figures. The statistics that are most often used to illustrate the nation's dismal status in this respect are the United Nations Development Program's Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), which gauges equality by tracking women's participation in politics and business.