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Volume II of PISA's 2009 results looks at how successful education systems moderate the impact of social background and immigrant status on student and school performance. The volume opens with an introduction to PISA and a Reader's Guide providing information that will help readers understand...
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In most PISA-participating countries and economies, the average socio-economic background of students who attend privately managed schools is more advantaged than that of those who attend public schools. Yet in some countries, there is little difference in the socio-economic profiles between...
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Gender-responsive procurement involves using public procurement opportunities to advance promote gender equality …. Mainstreaming gender considerations in public procurement is a key dimension of strategic procurement in which public buying power … governments and public buyers can use their purchasing power to promote gender equality and encourage suppliers to improve their …
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consider inequalities in unpaid work and take a gender-sensitive approach when building their policy responses to the COVID-19 …
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Gender-based violence affects many aspects of survivors' and victims' lives, including access to education, employment … programmes to eradicate gender-based violence and address its intersectional impacts, strategic planning, policy co … to effectively address gender-based violence. …
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Gender equality and environmental goals are mutually reinforcing, with slow progress on environmental actions affecting … the achievement of gender equality, and vice versa. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires … targeted and coherent actions. However, complementarities and trade-offs between gender equality and environmental …
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The OECD review of Gender Equality in Peru: Towards a Better Sharing of Paid and Unpaid Work is the second of a series … focusing on Latin American and the Caribbean countries. It compares gender gaps in labour and educational outcomes in Peru with … report reviews the evidence on gender gaps and on what causes these, including the role played by attitudes. The second part …
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gender stereotypes, but also by the attractiveness of the profession to working mothers and by differences in the relative … qualified candidates to the teaching profession, irrespective of gender. …
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