Glossary
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Empowerment
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Women and men taking control over their lives: setting their own agendas, gaining skills, building self-confidence, solving problems, and developing self-reliance.
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Gender
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The socially constructed roles and responsibilities of women and men, including the expectations held about the characteristics, aptitudes, and likely behaviours of both women and men (femininity and masculinity). These roles and expectations are learned, changeable over time, and variable within and between cultures. Gender refers to the relationship between women and men, and therefore must include both women and men. Gender is an analytical concept used to understand social processes and impacts.
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Gender-based analysis
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A lens of analysis that examines and assesses existing differences between women’s and men’s socio-economic realities as well as the differential impacts of proposed and existing policies, programs, legislative options, and agreements on women and men.
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Gender equality
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Women and men enjoying the same status and having equal opportunity to realize their full human rights and potential to contribute to national, political, economic, social, and cultural development, and to benefit from the results. The equal valuing by society of both the similarities and differences between women and men, and the varying roles they play.
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Gender equity
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Being fair to women and men. To ensure fairness, measures are often needed to compensate for historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from otherwise operating as equals. Equity leads to equality.
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Gender mainstreaming
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The process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies, or programs, in all areas and at all levels. A strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs in all political, economic, and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality.
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Gender-responsive budgeting
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Gender–responsive budgeting ensures that the needs and interests of individuals from different social groups are addressed. Gender-responsive budgets are not separate budgets for women or men. Instead, they bring gender awareness into the policies and budgets of all departments and agencies. In particular, it contributes to advancing gender equality and fulfilling women’s rights. It entails identifying and reflecting needed interventions to address gender gaps in policies, plans, programs and budgets. Gender-responsive budgeting also aims to analyze the gender-differentiated impact of revenue-raising policies and the allocation of domestic resources and official development assistance.
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Gender sensitivity/responsiveness
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Ideas, initiatives, or actions that take into account the particularities pertaining to the lives of both women and men, while aiming to eliminate inequalities and promoting an equal distribution of resources, benefits, burdens, rights, and obligations to both men and women.
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Sex
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The biological differences between women and men.
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Sex-disaggregated data
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Data (for example, about education, employment, or business ownership) that has been separated by sex in order to isolate figures for men and women and make comparisons between them. This sheds light on which sectors of society women and men are working in, or which services they use. This type of data is a prerequisite for gender-inclusive planning.
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