Understanding Gender Equality and Empowerment in the Arctic

该项目将为北极理事会（AC）关于北极性别和多样性的泛北极报告提供数据和分析综合。通过增强权能促进性别平等是全球可持续发展的关键组成部分。赋权是指个人和群体控制其社会、经济和政治环境的能力。赋予权力使人们能够实现目标并最大限度地提高他们及其家庭和社区的生活质量。该项目将收集、分析和综合有关北极地区性别平等和赋权的现状和新趋势的数据。北极理事会的完整报告将包括与政策相关的结论，并在北极利益攸关方、决策者和公众中广泛传播。该项目将采用包容、协作的方式收集和分析数据集、文件和案例研究，以了解政治、经济和公民赋权在多大程度上按性别分配。活动包括整合各种来源的数据，包括现有的人口、收入和就业统计数据、法律和政府文件以及土著学者和利益攸关方。这项工作的更广泛影响包括促进性别平等和赋予妇女和女孩权力的建议，提高公众对北极性别问题的认识，以及制定一份关于性别赋权的公开数据汇编。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute data and an analytical synthesis to the Arctic Council’s (AC) Pan-Arctic Report on Gender and Diversity in the Arctic. Advancing gender equality through empowerment is a key component of sustainable global development. Empowerment is the capacity of individuals and groups to exercise control over their social, economic, and political circumstances. Empowerment enables people to achieve objectives and maximize the quality of their lives and those of their families and communities. This project will collect, analyze, and synthesize data on the current state and emerging trends in gender equality and empowerment across the Arctic. The full Arctic Council report will include policy-relevant conclusions and be broadly disseminated among Arctic stakeholders, policy makers, and the general public.This project will employ 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. Activities include the integration of data from diverse sources, including existing demographic, income, and employment statistics, legal and government documents, and Indigenous scholars and stakeholders. Broader impacts of the work include recommendations for the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, raising public awareness of gender issues in the Arctic, and the development of a publicly available data compendium on gender empowerment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.