While this noun-noun construction is very common in English (development discourse, gender discrimination, carrot juice, etc. UN Women’s country gender equality brief (CGEB) provides a snapshot of the status of gender equality and the empowerment of women in Armenia, particularly against the gender-related indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals. Recent studies show that gender as a grammatical category can affect human thought and shape perceptions around certain concepts[3]. (3) Contact Us, Official National Statistics Not Available, National action plan specific to violence against women, National strategy specific to violence against women, Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence, The National Action Plan to Combat Gender Based Violence, The 2011-2015 Strategic Programme against Gender-based Violence, Decision of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia No 213-A, Project: "Combating Gender-Based Violence in the South Caucasus", Nationwide Survey on Domestic Violence against Women in Armenia, Campaign “Don’t be Silent, Don’t Put Up With It, Unite”, Second National Programme of Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, Inter-Departmental Working Group to Draft a Law on Domestic Violence, Criminal Code (Rape, Sexual Assault, Trafficking). ��������tx)��mC�����/��ya|���������O�`�t���c�i? Cultural understanding of gender -- or more precisely the lack of it -- couldn’t have persisted this long without this courier -- language that formulaically solidifies this knowledge and makes it possible for the transfer. Rockville, Maryland, USA: National Statistical Service, Ministry of Health, and ICF. To learn more about cookies, click here. endstream endobj 1210 0 obj <>stream While English has this category only for the third-person pronoun (she/he), other Indo-European (IE) languages such as Russian or German, for example, also have nominal gender, nouns and adjectives that are arbitrarily masculine, feminine, or neuter. 2017. endstream endobj 1207 0 obj <>stream

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Gendered meaning has become embedded in our technically genderless language because the notion of gender, like it or not, has always existed in Armenia and Armenian. During the last years, promotion of gender equality and human rights of women in Armenia has witnessed both progress and challenges. (2) Source: National Statistical Service, Ministry of Health, and ICF. Those who agree that there is equality between men and women in Armenian society feel happier. This highly common colloquialism is used about a woman who’s honest, strong, pragmatic, and successful, which means that being just a woman excludes the aforementioned qualities. Environmental and Social Policies for Projects. (5) There is Gender in Armenian and Armenia – We Just Don’t Have the Word for It! That is why the current mindset believes that the female fetus cannot be anyone but a mother. What is interesting though is that there is no such expression as կին տղամարդ [a woman(ly) man (kin tghamard)] wherein kin (woman) would serve as an adjective for tghamard (man). We provide a wide array of financial products and technical assistance, and we help countries share and apply innovative knowledge and solutions to the challenges they face.

Overview. Nevertheless, research shows that these allegedly gender-neutral nouns imply high agency, and since women are not identified with or expected to be actors, these nouns are perceived to be masculine, hence the usage of kin to indicate the gender. | 2010, Type of Measure : Gender Wage Gap in Armenia It is estimated that in Armenia women earn 20% less than men. %PDF-1.5 %����

“‘Tghamard kin’ is an admission of gender,” says human rights theorist and writer Vahan Bournazian.