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Taxing Women comprises both an insightful, critical analysis of the gender biases in current tax laws and a wake-up call for all those concerned with gender justice to pay more attention to the pervasive impact of such laws. Providing real-life examples, Edward McCaffery shows how tax laws are actually written to punish married couples who file jointly. No dual-income household can afford not to read this book before filing their taxes."Taxing Women is a must-have primer for any woman who wants to understand how our current tax system affects her family's economic condition. In plain English

Differences between Younger and Older WomenRacial/Ethnic Disparities among the Health Care of Older Women; Socio-Cultural Issues; Health Insurance; Geographic Considerations; PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS FOR ADDRESSING HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES AMONG OLDER WOMEN; Changes within the Practice of Medicine; Programmatic Changes within Communities and in the Delivery of Healthcare; Policy Changes that Address Socio-cultural Issues on a Macro Level; Social Work's Involvement in Reducing Healthcare Disparities; SUMMARY; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES.

Examines the relationship between gender and war in the context of ethnicity, citizenship, history, women's agency, regional differences, aspects of motherhood, and peace activism; questions the notion of women as essentially nonviolent. Some focus on the Bosnian violence and on peace activism by Israeli, Palestinian, and Afghan women; includes feminist perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Using the Document -- Getting Additional Information -- I. People, Families, and Income -- Marriage and Childbirth -- Households and Income -- 1. While the Populations of Both Men and Women are Aging, Women Continue to Outnumber Men at Older Ages -- 2. Both Women and Men are Delaying Marriage -- 3. Fewer Women are Married than in the Past -- 4. More Women than in the Past have Never had a Child -- 5. Women are Giving Birth to their First Child at Older Ages -- 6. Women are Having Fewer Children -- 7. Most Adults Live in Households Headed by Married Couples -- Single-Mother Households are More Common than Single-Father Households -- 8. Women are more Likely than Men to be in Poverty -- II. Education -- Enrollment and Graduation -- Academic Fields -- Other Challenges -- 1. Women's Gains in Educational Attainment have Significantly Outpaced those of Men over the Last 40 Years -- 2. Female Students Score Higher than Males on Reading Assessments and Lower than Males on Mathematics Assessments -- 3. Higher Percentages of Women than Men Age 25-34 have Earned a College Degree -- 4. More Women than Men have Received a Graduate Education -- 5. Women Earn the Majority of Conferred Degrees Overall but Earn Fewer Degrees than Men in Science and Technology -- 6. Higher Percentages of Women than Men Participate in Adult Education -- III. Employment -- Labor Force Participation -- Occupations -- Earnings and Contributions -- 1. After Decades of Significant Increases, the Labor Force Participation Rate for Women has Held Steady in Recent Years -- 2. Unemployment Rates for Women have Risen Less than for Men in Recent Recessions

The economic, social and political changes that have occurred in Russia over the last 10 years have had a profound effect on Russian women's lives. Economic reform has brought poverty, insecurity and high levels of anxiety and stress to much of the population, both male and female. The impact of these changes on women was amplified in the early 1990s by their structural positioning both within the workforce and within the population, brought about by the legacies of the Soviet planned economy, Soviet attitudes to gender and long established demographic trends. Alongside these historical influences, 'new' essentialist attitudes towards gender and the appropriate roles and responsibilities of women in post-Soviet Russian society have been strongly promoted through the media, political and social discourses, imposing new pressures and dilemmas on many post-Soviet Russian women. Numerous women's organisations have been established in Russia since the early 1990s, many of them with a specific remit of helping Russian women to overcome the upheavals and hardships which they face. Struggling to survive themselves with very few resources and minimal external support, Russia's grassroots women's organisations have nonetheless offered practical help and advice and emotional support and solidarity to their members. This paper is based on the findings of a period of intensive fieldwork carried out in 1995-6 with grassroots women's organisations in Moscow and three Russian provincial centres. It will present the aims, activities and impact of the groups studied. It will also investigate the ways in which these groups and their membership positioned themselves in relation to the development of essentialist attitudes and opinions on gender within Russia on the one hand, and a dialogue with 'western' feminist theory and practice on the other.

"Women in Yorùbá Religions discusses the influence of Yoruba culture on women's religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people, covering themes like Yoruba women in Yoruba religion, Christianity, and Islam; women in African-derived religions in the diaspora; Yoruba religion and globalization; and LGBTQ adherents of Yoruba religion"--