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  • A

    • abortion
    • affirmative action measures
    • assisting spouses
    • asylum-seeking women and girls
    • atypical work employment

  • B

    • balanced participation of women and men
    • benchmarking
    • benefits
    • best practices for gender equality
    • biphobia
    • bisexual
    • bisexuality
    • body, woman’s
    • burden of proof

  • C

    • capacity building
    • care economy
    • care ethics
    • care work
    • career breaks
    • caring masculinity
    • child marriage
    • childcare
    • civil society
    • claims to resources
    • coercive control
    • cohabitation
    • commercial sexual exploitation of children
    • competence development
    • compounded stereotypes
    • conflict-related sexual violence
    • consultative and participatory techniques and tools
    • crimes committed in the name of so-called honour
    • cultural violence
    • custodial violence against women
    • cyber harassment
    • cyber stalking
    • cyber violence against women and girls

  • D

    • date rape
    • de facto gender equality
    • de jure gender equality
    • democratic deficit
    • dependant care
    • derived rights
    • desegregation of the labour market
    • dignity at work
    • direct discrimination
    • direct violence against women
    • disadvantaged groups
    • discrimination against women
    • diversity
    • division of labour
    • domestic division of labour
    • domestic responsibilities
    • domestic violence
    • domestic work
    • double standards
    • doxing
    • dual approach to gender equality
    • due diligence

  • E

    • early marriage
    • economic abuse
    • economic violence
    • elder abuse
    • emancipation of women
    • emergency contraception
    • emotional abuse
    • employment segregation
    • empowerment of women
    • equal access to justice for women and men
    • equal access to resources for women and men
    • equal opportunities for women and men
    • equal pay for work of equal value
    • equal remuneration of women and men
    • equal sharing of domestic responsibilities
    • equal treatment of women and men
    • equality between women and men
    • equality bodies
    • equality dimension
    • equality of outcome
    • equality of women and men
    • equity between women and men
    • ethics of care

  • F

    • family care
    • family leave
    • family planning
    • family responsibilities
    • family violence
    • family worker
    • female
    • female circumcision
    • female genital cutting
    • female genital mutilation
    • female infanticide
    • female-headed households
    • femicide
    • femininities
    • feminisation of migration
    • feminisation of poverty
    • feminism(s)
    • feminist studies
    • flexibility of working time arrangements
    • forced abortion
    • forced marriage
    • forced pregnancy
    • forced prostitution
    • forced sterilisation
    • formal gender equality

  • G

    • GAD
    • gender
    • gender analysis
    • gender and development
    • gender audit
    • gender awareness
    • gender awareness raising
    • gender balance
    • gender bias
    • gender blindness
    • gender budgeting
    • gender contract
    • Gender Development Index (GDI)
    • gender dimension
    • gender discrimination
    • gender disparities
    • gender division of labour
    • gender dynamics
    • gender education
    • gender empowerment measures (GEM)
    • gender equality
    • gender equality bodies
    • gender equality competence
    • gender equality competence development
    • Gender Equality Index
    • gender equality machinery
    • gender equality training
    • gender equity
    • gender evaluation
    • gender expression
    • gender gap
    • gender identity
    • gender impact assessment
    • gender indicators
    • gender inequality
    • gender issue(s)
    • gender mainstreaming
    • gender mainstreaming in national policies and programmes
    • gender mainstreaming in statistics
    • gender monitoring and evaluation
    • gender needs of women
    • gender norms
    • gender parity
    • gender pay gap
    • gender perspective
    • gender planning
    • gender position
    • gender power relations
    • gender procurement
    • gender proofing
    • gender quotas
    • gender reassignment
    • gender redistributive policies
    • gender relations
    • gender relevance
    • gender roles
    • gender segregation
    • gender sensitivity
    • gender socialisation
    • gender statistics
    • gender stereotypes
    • gender stereotyping
    • gender studies
    • gender system
    • gender training
    • gender violence
    • gender-balanced participation
    • gender-based discrimination
    • gender-based division of labour
    • gender-based violence
    • gender-based violence against women
    • gender-neutral
    • gender-neutral language
    • gender-neutral legislation
    • gender-neutral policies
    • gender-sensitive
    • gender-sensitive accountability
    • gender-sensitive budgeting
    • gender-sensitive institutional transformation
    • gender-sensitive language
    • gender-sensitive mediation
    • gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation
    • gender-specific monitoring and evaluation
    • gender(s)
    • gendered
    • gendering
    • glass ceiling
    • glass cliff
    • good practice for gender mainstreaming
    • governmental gender equality body

  • H

    • harassment
    • harmful practices
    • harmful stereotypes
    • harmful traditional practices
    • hegemonic masculinity
    • heteronormativity
    • heterosexism
    • heterosexual
    • heterosexuality
    • hidden unemployment
    • home-based work
    • homophobia
    • homosexual
    • homosexuality
    • honour crimes
    • horizontal segregation
    • housework
    • human rights of women and girls
    • human trafficking
    • hypermasculinity

  • I

    • independent national equality bodies
    • indirect discrimination
    • indirect violence against women
    • individual rights
    • informal economy
    • informal work
    • institutional capacity for gender mainstreaming
    • institutional mechanisms for gender equality
    • integration of gender equality perspective
    • integration of gender perspective
    • intersectional discrimination
    • intersectionality
    • intersex
    • intimate partner violence
    • intra-household resource distribution
    • invisible barriers
    • irregular and/or precarious employment

  • J

    • job segregation
    • job sharing
    • judicial stereotyping

  • L

    • legal aid
    • lesbian
    • lesbophobia
    • LGBTQ
    • lone parent

  • M

    • mainstreaming a gender equality principle
    • mainstreaming a gender perspective
    • male
    • man
    • marginalised position
    • marginalized groups
    • marital rape
    • marital status
    • marriage migration
    • masculinities
    • maternity leave
    • maternity protection
    • medical abortion
    • men’s studies
    • mentoring
    • methods for gender mainstreaming
    • migrant women
    • minimum wage
    • minority women
    • multiple burden
    • multiple discrimination

  • N

    • National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs)
    • national machinery for the advancement of women
    • national women’s helplines
    • new household economics
    • non-consensual pornography
    • non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
    • non-sexist use of language

  • O

    • occupational gender segregation
    • offender management
    • older women workers
    • ombudsperson
    • organisational culture
    • other/third gender

  • P

    • parental leave
    • parental rights
    • parity
    • parity democracy
    • parity threshold
    • part-time employment
    • participatory gender audit
    • paternity leave
    • patriarchy
    • pay gap
    • perpetrator
    • physical violence
    • positive action
    • positive discrimination
    • positive measures
    • power relations
    • practical gender needs of women (PGNs)
    • pre-natal sex selection
    • precarious and/or irregular employment
    • preferential treatment
    • pregnancy
    • prejudices
    • principle of equal treatment
    • proactive measures
    • protection order
    • protective measures
    • psychological assault
    • psychological violence
    • public/private dichotomy

  • Q

    • queer
    • queer theory
    • quotas

  • R

    • rape
    • rape crisis centre
    • rape culture
    • re-victimisation
    • reassault
    • recidivism
    • recognition and valuation of unpaid work
    • reconciliation of work and family/household life
    • reconciliation of work, family and private life
    • referral system
    • refuge
    • refugee women
    • regulation of part-time work
    • repeat victimisation
    • representation of women
    • reproductive health
    • reproductive labour
    • reproductive rights
    • reproductive work
    • restraining order
    • revenge porn
    • risk assessment
    • risk management

  • S

    • safe housing
    • safe motherhood
    • safety planning
    • satellite account
    • secondary victimisation
    • sectoral approach to gender mainstreaming
    • segregation of the labour market
    • sex
    • sex bias in data collection
    • sex discrimination
    • sex stereotype
    • sex trade
    • sex trafficking
    • sex- and gender-based discrimination
    • sex-disaggregated data
    • sex-disaggregated statistics
    • sex-role stereotype
    • sexism
    • sexual abuse
    • sexual assault on women
    • sexual division of labour
    • sexual exploitation
    • sexual harassment
    • sexual health
    • sexual identity
    • sexual orientation
    • sexual rights
    • sexual slavery
    • sexual stereotype
    • sexual violence
    • sexual violence referral centre
    • sexuality
    • shelter
    • single parent
    • special measures
    • specialised services for women
    • specific action
    • specific measures
    • stakeholder consultations
    • stalking
    • stateless women
    • statistical gender bias
    • stealthing
    • sticky floor
    • strategic gender interests (SGIs)
    • strategic gender needs of women (SGNs)
    • structural adjustment
    • structural inequality
    • substantive gender equality
    • survivor of gender-based violence

  • T

    • temporary special measures
    • the ‘Other gender’
    • the third gender
    • time use survey
    • tokenism
    • tools for gender mainstreaming
    • traditional harmful practices
    • trafficking in human beings
    • trafficking in women and girls
    • transgender
    • transphobia
    • transsexual
    • transsexuality
    • triple burden
    • triple role
    • triple task

  • U

    • unpaid work
    • unremunerated work
    • unsafe abortion

  • V

    • vertical segregation
    • victim
    • victimisation
    • violence against women
    • violence against women and girls in armed conflict
    • violence at work
    • vulnerable groups

  • W

    • woman
    • woman worker
    • woman’s body
    • women in development (WID)
    • women’s centre
    • women’s entrepreneurship
    • women’s human rights
    • women’s human rights defenders (WHRDs)
    • women’s multiple burden
    • women’s shelter
    • women’s studies
    • women’s triple burden
    • women’s triple role
    • women’s triple task
    • work–family balance
    • work–life balance
    • wrongful gender stereotyping

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