Issues in Global Human Inequality

Gender relations shape our everyday lives in ways that we do and do not always see. They have a profound effect on our capacity to live the lives to which we aspire, and so we need to better understand them and the consequences that they foster.

Since the 1990s efforts to transform gender relations in developing countries have been called the Gender And Development approach to social change.

Gender relations shape our everyday lives in ways that we do and do not always see. They have a profound effect on our capacity to live the lives to which we aspire, and so we need to better understand them and the consequences that they foster.

In the 1970s and 1980s efforts to improve the social and economic status of women led to the Women in Development approach to social change.

Gender relations shape our everyday lives in ways that we do and do not always see. They have a profound effect on our capacity to live the lives to which we aspire, and so we need to better understand them and the consequences that they foster.

The basis of gender inequality lies in the patriarchal social norms and institutions that pervade our societies, and which must be challenged if human capabilities are to be enlarged.

Gender relations shape our everyday lives in ways that we do and do not always see. They have a profound effect on our capacity to live the lives to which we aspire, and so we need to better understand them and the consequences that they foster.

The vast majority of the world's women spend a significant part of their working doing work around the home for their families. Why is this work not recognized by state policy?

Gender relations shape our everyday lives in ways that we do and do not always see. They have a profound effect on our capacity to live the lives to which we aspire, and so we need to better understand them and the consequences that they foster.

Gender relations are not natural but are created in our homes, in our schools, in our civic and faith-based organizations, and by state policy.

Conflict clearly diminishes human capabilities. Yet it appears that conflict around the world is an endemic feature of human societies. So if we want to enlarge human capabilities we need to understand ways of mitigating conflict.

Are some of the sources of armed conflict around the world also witnessed in neighbourhoods in the developed countries?

Conflict clearly diminishes human capabilities. Yet it appears that conflict around the world is an endemic feature of human societies. So if we want to enlarge human capabilities we need to understand ways of mitigating conflict.

Does conflict have clearly-defined economic and political causes?

Conflict clearly diminishes human capabilities. Yet it appears that conflict around the world is an endemic feature of human societies. So if we want to enlarge human capabilities we need to understand ways of mitigating conflict.

Is conflict the result of cultural differences that cannot be bridged?

Conflict clearly diminishes human capabilities. Yet it appears that conflict around the world is an endemic feature of human societies. So if we want to enlarge human capabilities we need to understand ways of mitigating conflict.

What are the ways in which conflict throws social change and development into reverse, diminishing human capabilities?

Conflict clearly diminishes human capabilities. Yet it appears that conflict around the world is an endemic feature of human societies. So if we want to enlarge human capabilities we need to understand ways of mitigating conflict.

The character of armed conflict has changed in important ways since the end of World War Two. This has had an effect on the intensity of armed conflict.