This study explores the emerging phenomenon of childlessness in India beyond biological infertility, revealing social stratification linked to education and partnership trajectories, with highly educated women more likely to delay or forgo motherhood. It highlights reproductive inequalities and calls for inclusive policies addressing diverse life courses and aspirations.
This study examines how child marriage shapes the work and family life trajectories of Egyptian women, revealing that early marriage leads to early fertility and limited labor force participation, especially in the public sector. It highlights the complex roles of education and childbirth timing in influencing these trajectories and calls for a deeper understanding of accelerated adulthood in the Global South.
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This chapter aligns with SDG goal 3 - Good Health and Wellbeing, and goal 5 - gender equality, by advocating for inclusive, ethical, and gender-sensitive research practices that enhance women’s health outcomes and promote gender equality in scientific and medical fields.
This study explores how students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness at school relate to their wellbeing, focusing on girls, students with special educational needs (SEN), and low socioeconomic status (SES) students
RELX Environmental Challenge 2025: four shortlisted projects to bring safe water and sanitation to communities around the world
The paper critically examines the assumption that access to electricity (SDG 7) inherently promotes gender equality (SDG 5). It finds that the gendered impacts of electricity access vary widelysometimes empowering women, but other times reinforcing existing inequalities. To better understand these dynamics, the authors develop a new theoretical framework that merges:
Gender Studies insights on gender as performative, intersectional, and shaped by power relations.
Social Practice Theory, which explores how electricity gains meaning through its role in everyday practices.
This framework is applied to case studies in rural Guatemala (patriarchal) and rural Colombia (matrilineal), revealing how cultural context shapes outcomes. The paper also introduces an 8-step methodology for applying this framework in practice.
Ultimately, the study offers tools for designing context-sensitive energy policies that are more likely to advance gender equality.
This study shows how nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions in rural Odisha, India, helped improve womens diet quality and reduce inequalities by using an intersectionality-informed approach. Researchers analysed participation and dietary diversity among 3,294 mothers in the UPAVAN trial. While advantaged groups participated more, disadvantaged women often gained greater diet benefits, narrowing some gaps. However, those facing multiple disadvantages saw less benefit, highlighting ongoing inequities. The research demonstrates that inclusive, equity-focused nutrition programs can enhance dietary outcomes for women.
Using Faircloughs Critical Discourse Analysis, this study examines recently reformed Pakistani English textbooks for grades 15 to examine and analyse gender bias in both text and images.
The chapter aligns well with the SDGs, especially SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) by promoting modifiable factors for healthy aging. It also supports SDG 5 (Gender Equality) through its emphasis on sex-specific needs and the importance of sex-disaggregated data. The focus on nutrition, education about activity and sleep, and reducing risky behaviors links to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and SDG 11 (inclusive communities). To fully meet SDG targets, the chapter should explicitly address equitable access, policy implementation, and routine monitoring using sex-disaggregated indicators.
