Gender Empowerment in the Arctic (2016-2020)

The collaborative study on gender equality and empowerment in the Arctic (UGEEA) aims to improve understanding of gender equality issues in the New Arctic at the national, regional, and local levels, identify concrete strategies for gender political, economic, and civic empowerment, and thereby facilitate sustainable policymaking for the New Arctic. This study employs an inclusive, collaborative approach to collect and analyze datasets, documents, and case studies to understand to what extent political, economic, and civic empowerment is distributed by gender. Broader impacts of the UGEEA Project include recommendations for the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women, raising public awareness of gender issues in the Arctic, and the development of a publicly available data compendium on gender empowerment. The study also aims to narrow the existing knowledge gaps on gender empowerment across Circumpolar regions by including an assessment of gender empowerment at different levels relevant to the Arctic countries — national/quasi-national (for Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland), subnational (regional), municipal, and local (community) levels. The dataset examines gender earnings gap, gender disparity in tertiary education, and women's political leadership in the Arctic at the regional/(sub)national levels.

北极性别平等与赋权合作研究（UGEEA）旨在深化对国家、区域及地方层面新北极地区性别平等议题的认知，明确两性在政治、经济与公民参与维度的赋权具体策略，进而助力新北极地区的可持续政策制定。本研究采用包容协作的研究范式，收集并分析数据集、文献与案例研究，以探究政治、经济及公民参与维度的赋权在两性间的分布程度。UGEEA项目的延伸影响包括：提出促进性别平等与女性赋权的相关建议，提升公众对北极地区性别议题的认知，以及开发一套可公开获取的性别赋权数据汇编集。本研究还旨在通过针对北极相关国家不同层级的性别赋权评估，填补环北极地区性别赋权领域现存的知识空白——相关层级涵盖国家/准国家层面（适用于冰岛、法罗群岛及格陵兰）、次国家（区域）层面、市政层面以及地方（社区）层面。本数据集聚焦于区域/（次）国家层面的北极地区性别收入差距、高等教育性别失衡以及女性政治领导力现状。