"Pollsters first noticed the gender gap in the 1980 election between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, and it has been a constant in American politics since then, " CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
This session was co-organized by UNESCO and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) in the framework of the 5th Annual Meeting of First Ladies on Enhancing Gender Equality.
In 2010, however, Republicans managed to narrow this gender divide for the first time since the early 1980s, helping them win landslide victories across the country.
Last year, however, the British government agreed with 15 other commonwealth countries that males should no longer be given priority and changed the rules of succession so that the first-born child of either gender could one day take the throne.
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One notable reaction came from Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, who runs a global management consultancy, 20-first, that helps companies achieve greater gender balance.
In the mid-1990s, Ms. McCloskey went through another radical transformation, changing her gender and ditching her given first name, Donald, to become Deirdre.
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On Friday his government made a draft "gender violence" law the very first of the not even week-old administration.
Boys are included in this year's survey for the first time as a point of comparison over gender issues.
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The process of gender verification has undergone big changes since it was first introduced for international competition in the 1960s, the IAAF said.
While making her first professional steps, Dow says she quickly came across an innate gender inequality built into law.
With hard work and dedication, she soon became the first African American to reach number one as a professional, regardless of gender.
Of the multitude of boxes a person is put in over the course of his or her life--race, nationality, economic status, age--gender is a constant that we carry with us from our first breath.
But, like Liberia's new president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first female elected as head of state, women are determined to make a gender difference in the way they do business.
And a majority of Internet users will, for the first time, live somewhere other than the U.S. Whatever their gender or location, Internet users will find fewer major players on the Web as mergers and acquisitions make headlines in 1999.
Even more striking, Dice says that when it first started the survey four years ago, there was also no evidence of a gender pay gap, when it controlled for education and experience.
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As the nation's first woman to hold the office, Rousseff said she has a mission to fight for more gender equality in Brazil.
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The gender pay gap rears its head again at about the same time that the average woman has her first child.
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But first, much has been made in this political season about Democratic voters weighing questions of loyalty to either race or gender when making their choice about who will get their party's presidential nomination.
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