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Thesaurus: 1501 entries.


GENDER (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: A set of social relations, associated with sex, rather than an attribute of individuals.

GENDER CONTRACT (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: The normative and material bases around which sex and gender divisions of paid and unpaid labour operate in a given society, normally involving an exchange between breadwinning and caregiving, protection and freedom, public and private.

GENDER DISCRIMINATION (Search for related entries in the library)

GENDER DIVISION OF LABOUR (Search for related entries in the library)

GENDER WAGE GAP 

GENDERING (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: Subjecting all analysis to a gender perspective: identifying how gender and gender bias/sexism shape social processes; highlights gender as a social relation and gendering as a historical and political process.

GENDERING UNION DEMOCRACY 

GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (Search for related entries in the library)

GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: The mobility of individuals across space, regardless of distance or permanence.

GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY