Gender Equality In A Global Perspective

Author : Anders Ortenblad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317274229
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Equality in a Global Perspective written by Anders Ortenblad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to discuss whether Gender Equality can be adopted as it has been defined in international documents anywhere, or whether it needs to be adapted in a more local context; discuss which factors and perspectives need to be taken into account when adapting Gender Equality to specific contexts; suggest research approaches for studies on whether a universal (Western) concept of Gender Equality fits in certain specific contexts; and finally suggests challenges to the existing interpretation of Gender Equality (e.g., theory of intersectionality); and the development of legal and policy framework. This book is situated within the tradition of comparative gender studies. While most other such books take up and compare various ways of implementing (or not implementing) gender equality, this book studies and compares whether or not (and to what extent) a specific definition of Gender Equality (GE) could be adopted by various nations. Thus, all chapter contributors will engage with the same definition of GE, which will be presented within the book, and discuss the possibilities and constrains related to applying such a definition in their particular national context. The readers will learn about the problems of applying a universal concept of Gender Equality and the possible reasons for and modes of adapting Gender Equality to different contexts. Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to maintain a critical and reflexive stance towards the issues raised and will seek to present multiple perspectives and open-ended answers. As such it hopes to contribute to the international discussion of human rights more broadly and Gender Equality specifically. The intended audience is not limited only to but will include policy makers, scholars and students with an interest in Gender issues, Organizational Theory, Political Science, Human Development, Policy Analysis, Globalization and other management sub-disciplines.

Author : Marjorie Agosín
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813529837
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Gender, and Human Rights written by Marjorie Agosín and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: II: WOMEN AND HEALTH

Author : Elena V. Shabliy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030418227
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Women’s Leadership and Gender (In)Equality written by Elena V. Shabliy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume discusses women’s global leadership and women’s rights advancement, identifying gender inequality as a persisting societal challenge and a major barrier to human development. Drawing on intersectionality as an important analytic and methodological tool, the contributors analyse women’s leadership roles across the world, featuring perspectives on the US, Israel, and Brazil, amongst other countries. The book also contributes to the growing field of leadership, presenting cross-cultural examples and case-studies of outstanding women and female leaders, as well as discussing contemporary leadership theories, and examining obstacles to women’s leadership. Global Perspectives on Women’s Leadership and Gender (In)Equality will be an important point of reference for students and scholars across the political sciences, women’s studies, feminist philosophy, business development, and history.

Author : Janet Rives
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Dimensions of Gender Inequality written by Janet Rives and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-08-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 12 essays which discuss gender inequality in employment, and the impact of the stage of economic development, and of social and cultural factors on the manifestation of inequality.

Author : Naila Kabeer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135893497
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Gender Equality written by Naila Kabeer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. The book brings together scholars from the global South and post-socialist economies to reflect on Nordic approaches to gender equality. The contributors to the book seek to explore from a comparative perspective the vision, values, policies, mechanisms, coalitions of interests and political processes that help to explain Nordic achievements on gender equality. While some contributors explore the Nordic experience through the prism of their own realities, others explore their own realities through the Nordic prism. By cutting across normal geographical boundaries, disciplinary boundaries and the boundaries between theory and policy, this book will be of interest to all readers with an interest in furthering gender equality.

Author : Hilary M. Lips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108877206
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women across Cultures written by Hilary M. Lips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology's study of women has revealed some themes that span cultures and countries, yet women's lived experiences in different cultures can be dramatically different. This Element explores, from a psychological perspective, women's issues in cultural contexts. Beginning with the question of public and private identity (i.e., who 'counts' as a woman), it goes on to examine embodiment, sexuality, reproduction, family roles, economic participation and power, violence, leadership, and feminist activism. It concludes with a brief discussion of women's complicated relationship to culture: as both keepers and sometimes prisoners of cultural traditions - particularly in the context of migration to different cultures. Running through the Element are two general themes: the pervasiveness of a gender hierarchy that often privileges men over women, and the ways in which women's lived experience varies within cultures according to the intersection of gender with other categories that affect expectations, norms, power and privilege.

Author : Yulia Gradskova
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498516742
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutionalizing Gender Equality written by Yulia Gradskova and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women’s rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What shape have these processes taken in different parts of the world? How do global and internationally designed institutions adapt to local cultural, religious, political, and economic contexts? What are the problems and contradictions embedded in this process when viewed from a global perspective? What effects do grassroots, local, and national actors have on transnational institutions? In answering the questions, the book draws on historical and global perspectives, beginning in the 1960s, an important moment for internationalization during the Cold War, and looking to a global selection of case studies. Providing a series of “snapshots” of historical and contemporary global gender equality politics, the chapters allow for an examination of how local, national, and transnational actors have interacted in ways that affect the dissemination of gender equality institutions, both formal and informal. The case studies demonstrate the relationship between the supranational, regional, national, and sub-national or “local.” They explore the power dynamics, interactions, and mutually constituting nature of two analytic levels of organizations and actors involved in the institutionalization of gender equality–the transnational level as well as the level of activity within specific national political systems (as represented by states, grassroots organizations, and other sub-national actors). The findings reveal that the institutionalization of gender equality is dependent on national and local context, the potential for interactions between gender equality policies and other state agendas, the depth of informal institutions, and the degree to which a given state is integrated into the norms of the international system.

Author : Shawn Meghan Burn
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective written by Shawn Meghan Burn and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines and documents the issues women face in terms of lower status and lower power around the world and across cultures. The book then discusses what is being done from the local to the global level to address women's issues, empowering women and promoting women's equal rights.

Author : Philip E. Muehlenbeck
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826521444
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War written by Philip E. Muehlenbeck and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Marko Dumančić writes in his introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War, "despite the centrality of gender and sexuality in human relations, their scholarly study has played a secondary role in the history of the Cold War. . . . It is not an exaggeration to say that few were left unaffected by Cold War gender politics; even those who were in charge of producing, disseminating, and enforcing cultural norms were called on to live by the gender and sexuality models into which they breathed life." This underscores the importance of this volume, as here scholars tackle issues ranging from depictions of masculinity during the all-consuming space race, to the vibrant activism of Indian peasant women during this period, to the policing of sexuality inside the militaries of the world. Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose combined research spans fifteen countries across five continents, claiming a place as the first volume to examine how issues of gender and sexuality impacted both the domestic and foreign policies of states, far beyond the borders of the United States, during the tumult of the Cold War.

Author : Yulia Gradskova
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9781498516754
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutionalizing Gender Equality written by Yulia Gradskova and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the internationalization and institutionalization of gender politics from the late 1960s to the present. It examines the successes, difficulties, and contradictions of this process by taking a global perspective, including case studies on the European Union, Mexico, South Korea, and Egypt, among others.