Studies comparing jobs in which women predominate to those in which men predominate have not been carried out in Pakistan.

In all regions, women predominate in informal economy.

Particular benefits may arise for women, including because they tend to be predominate in the distribution sector workforce.

This Act is of particular importance to employees with temporary employment contracts, among whom women and employees from ethnic minorities clearly predominate.

Indeed the two professions in which women predominate teaching and nursing are considered to be vital to the functioning of the society.

Unhealthy nutrition and inadequate drinking water affect health and, as the situation has not changed in years, the crisis grows and the negative factors predominate.

Although the percentage of population assistance channelled by non governmental organizations has decreased since 2002, the non governmental organization channel continues to predominate throughout all the world regions.

Apart from being sound in principle, the accountability that is inherent in that approach is also more likely to produce a Security Council in which regional and global concerns predominate over simply national interests.

It may also be argued that there does not appear to be a tendency in the society to hold jobs in which women predominate to be less important or valuable than those performed by men.

But, as we have seen elsewhere in the region, it will prove far more difficult to put something benign and effective in its place. Civil war along sectarian lines could well predominate, or fighting between the various anti Assad opposition groups could erupt.

Studies for the development and adoption of job evaluation systems based on gender neutral criteria that would facilitate the comparison of the value of those jobs of a different nature, in which women presently predominate, with those jobs in which men presently.

Beyond semantics lies the more consequential, but equally ambiguous, question of the international community s role and responsibility. Just as too broad a definition could undermine a country s sovereignty, too narrow a definition like that which seems to predominate today allows violence and instability to proliferate.

At the same time, a strengthened economic and social security council would enable the UN to shape more effectively debates about reforming the global economic and financial system. Today, by contrast, such debates are too often centered at the IMF, where the financial interests of the advanced industrial countries predominate.