Legal, social and cultural situation in which sex and/or gender determine different rights and dignity for women and men, which are reflected in their unequal access to or enjoyment of rights, as well as the assumption of stereotyped social and cultural roles.
… law, policy or programme reduce, maintain or increase the gender inequalities between women and men? This step-by-step … identify where policies are causing or strengthening gender inequalities and how they can be effectively … re-directed. It provides both a theoretical model of gender impact assessment and real, hands-on information from …