Table 1 Definition of concepts
From: Promoting Gender Equality: A Systematic Review of Interventions
Concept | Definition |
|---|---|
Gender equality | The concept that women and men, girls and boys have equal conditions, treatment and opportunities for realizing their full potential, human rights and dignity, and for contributing to (and benefitting from) economic, social, cultural and political development (UNICEF, 2017) |
Gender equity | The process of being fair to men and women. To ensure fairness, measures must often be put in place to compensate for the historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from operating on a level playing field (UNESCO, 2003) |
Gender mainstreaming | The process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels (United Nations, 1997) |
Gender parity | A statistical measure that provides a numerical value of female-to-male or girl-to-boy ratio for indicators (IDOS, 2018) |
Intervention | A program, policy, process or experimental condition that aimed to have an impact on an outcome, which in the context of this review were gender bias, discrimination or equality outcomes |
Qualitative data | Information that cannot be counted, measured or easily expressed using numbers (Techtarget, 2022) |
Reflexivity | The examination of one’s own beliefs, judgments and practices during the research process and how these may have influenced the research (University of Warwick, 2022) |
Verification | One or more verification procedures that are used to help establish credibility and trustworthiness of the study (e.g., prolonged engagement in the field, triangulation, peer review or debriefing, negative case analysis, member checks, external audits/inter-rater reliability, “batch” analysis; Kmet et al., 2004) |