(g) Gender equality, equity and empowerment of women

Act on the Equal Status and Equal Rights of Women and Men, No. 28 of 1991

Ireland's far reaching equality legislation included the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000.

In addition to the Employment Equality Act and the Equal Status Act he had just mentioned, equality was promoted by an Equality Authority.

Men and women are given equal rights with regard to moving about and the freedom to chose a place to live and a place of residence.

19. The Equal Status Complaints Committee was established by Act No. 28 1991 on the Equal Status of Men and Women.

Women's position and gender equality

I waited for you calmly, with boundless impatience.

It was unclear, for instance, what had actually been done to achieve equal distribution and ownership of land and equal access to credit.

IV. Equal status and human rights of women

Equal justice and opportunities for women at all levels were essential to ensure gender equality.

C. Ensure equal access to health care for women

You seem so anxious to regard the servants as your equals.

(ii) Creation of the conditions of fairness and full and equal participation and gender balanced interpersonal relations

1. States Parties recognize that all persons are equal before and under the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law.

All benefits on the basis of labor are equal for men and women.

All regions should therefore receive equal attention.

We're also returning to an ancient form of marriage equality.

Equal access to the different levels of education and measures to promote literacy

Political equality And equal rights with men (shrieks)

They will also be equitably represented on the regional planning councils.

h) Ensure that private sector educational institutions adhere to gender equality policy to encourage equal education of women and girls

We need to see more equal burden sharing.

There were also a number of gender equality commissions at the local level.

(c) Rights relating to women apos s status and equality in society.

VI. Equal status and human rights of women

Yet equality before the law was not the same as equality in rights or gender equality.

Women's equal ownership of, access to and control over land and the equal rights to own property and to adequate housing

Women are accorded equal status and rights as men.

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Good and Bad Inequality

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In other words, equitable treatment of women and men, of residents of urban as well as of rural areas, irrespective of their socioeconomic condition.

Without women's equal access to and full participation in power structures and decision making, the goals of gender balance and equality, development and peace cannot be achieved.

Systematic gender focussed research to enhance the relevance of development planning to national gender equality and equity commitments.

9 of the respondents considered the positions to be equal.

All stakeholders should be involved equally in their development.

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In response to this, we are happy to note that since 1 January 2004 the Gender Equality Bureau was reorganised into the Gender Equality Department.

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Equality means strict allocation and equity means seeking equality without really necessarily achieving it.

In the interest of protecting minority shareholders, the principle of equality of disclosure should be practiced, such that all shareholders receive information equally.

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106. The Committee is disturbed to note the Government s view that there is no need to specify gender inequality every time the issue of equality is raised.