Definition: Gender equity

Category: Gender statistics

Process of being fair to women and men, girls and boys, by taking into account the different needs of women and men, cultural barriers and past and present discrimination against a specific group. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/Integrating-a-Gender-Perspective-into-Statistics-2016-E.pdf
Source:
United Nations Statistics Division, "Integrating a gender perspective into statistics", Studies in Methods, Series F No. 111, New York, 2016
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