Gender-specific Call of Duty : A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indices
We document that existing gender equality indices do not account for gender-specific mandatory peace-time conscription (compulsory military service). This suggests that gender-specific conscription is not considered to be an important gender issue. If an indicator measuring the gender equality of ma...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/72807 2024-05-19T07:42:45+00:00 Gender-specific Call of Duty : A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indices Heikkilä, Jussi Laukkanen, Ina 2022 application/pdf 603-615 fulltext http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202011256776 eng eng Routledge, Taylor & Francis Defence and Peace Economics 1024-2694 5 33 10.1080/10242694.2020.1844400 Heikkilä, J., & Laukkanen, I. (2022). Gender-specific Call of Duty : A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indices. Defence and Peace Economics , 33 (5), 603-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2020.1844400 CONVID_47112912 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202011256776 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202011256776 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ sukupuoli miehet maanpuolustus varusmiespalvelus asevelvollisuus tasa-arvo naisen asema article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 publishedVersion A1 2022 ftjyvaeskylaenun 2024-04-23T23:38:28Z We document that existing gender equality indices do not account for gender-specific mandatory peace-time conscription (compulsory military service). This suggests that gender-specific conscription is not considered to be an important gender issue. If an indicator measuring the gender equality of mandatory conscription was to be included in gender equality indices with appropriate weight, then the relative rankings of countries in terms of measured gender equality could be affected. In the context of the Nordic countries, this would mean that Finland and Denmark – the countries with mandatory conscription for men only – would have worse scores with respect to gender equality compared to Sweden and Norway, countries with conscription for both men and women – and Iceland, which has no mandatory conscription, regardless of gender. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive Defence and Peace Economics 1 13 |
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We document that existing gender equality indices do not account for gender-specific mandatory peace-time conscription (compulsory military service). This suggests that gender-specific conscription is not considered to be an important gender issue. If an indicator measuring the gender equality of mandatory conscription was to be included in gender equality indices with appropriate weight, then the relative rankings of countries in terms of measured gender equality could be affected. In the context of the Nordic countries, this would mean that Finland and Denmark – the countries with mandatory conscription for men only – would have worse scores with respect to gender equality compared to Sweden and Norway, countries with conscription for both men and women – and Iceland, which has no mandatory conscription, regardless of gender. peerReviewed |
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Defence and Peace Economics 1024-2694 5 33 10.1080/10242694.2020.1844400 Heikkilä, J., & Laukkanen, I. (2022). Gender-specific Call of Duty : A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indices. Defence and Peace Economics , 33 (5), 603-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2020.1844400 CONVID_47112912 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202011256776 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202011256776 |
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