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strategic gender needs of women (SGNs)

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What women or men require in order to improve their position or status in regard to each other by  placing them in greater control of themselves instead of limiting them to the restrictions imposed by socially defined roles. 

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Sources

Based on International Organization for Migration – IOM (2006). Guidelines on Implementing the IOM Programme Policy on Migrants & Gender Issues. Available at:

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ianwge/repository/IOM_Guidelines_on_impleme...

Relations

Related term:
practical gender needs of women (PGNs)
Broader term:
gender needs of women
URI: 
https://eige.europa.eu/taxonomy/term/1397?lang=en
Filed under: 
Decision-making and power
Gender roles and relations

 

The concepts and definitions found in this glossary were published in 2016, and some may be out-of-date. EIGE is currently looking into which terms may need to be updated in the future.