Suchergebnisse

Access to Education and Gender Equality -- Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Through Women's Economic Empowerment -- Adolescence Empowerment, Sustainability and Gender Equality -- Adolescent Reproductive Health in South Asia: Issues and Challenges -- Affirmative Action Measures and Gender Equality: Review of Evidence, Policies, and Practices -- Artificial Intelligence, Gender, and Oppression -- Birth-Spacing: Achieving Gender Equality under Sustainable Development Goals -- Child Abuse in Relation to Girls -- Child Care Services: Possible Solutions to Improve Outcomes -- Child Marriage and Resistance Movements -- Child, Early, and Forced Marriage -- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women (Istanbul Convention) (2014) -- Creating and Enhancing Women Empowerment Through the Policing Profession -- Domestic Violence Against Women: Relevance, Reflections, and Public Policies -- Dowry System: Unequalizing Gender Equality -- Early and Child Marriage in India: A Framework to Achieve SDGs -- Ecofeminism -- Emotions, Rationality, and Gender.

Designed primarily as a textbook for upper division undergraduate courses in gender and sport, gender issues, sport sociology, cultural sport studies, and women's studies, Gender Relations in Sport provides a comprehensive examination of the intersecting themes and concepts surrounding the study of gender and sport.

Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Yet, without gender it is impossible to understand development -- and the development of under-development. This collection brings together specialists from different parts of the world and various disciplines, who look at various key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism. Gender, as an expression of power, is an indispensable analytical category for social change. It reveals invisible realities and socio-political struggles, giving voice to the subaltern. It contributes to renewing methods, deconstruct and build innovative categories and concepts, challenging dominant paradigms. Thinking about gender can raise new controversies and encourage discussions on policy changes. While the current global crisis and growing inequalities urge us to find alternatives to globalised capitalism, feminist theory offers a fresh way to think and achieve social change. -- Provided by publisher

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: Gender, Work, and Health: Some Introductory Thoughts -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Understanding Gender and its Relationship to Health -- 1.3 Gender and Occupational Health and Safety: Policy and Practice -- 1.4 Gender and the Labour Market and Employment Patterns -- 1.5 Gender, Work and Health -- 1.5.1 Work-Related Stress and Mental Health -- 1.5.2 Physical Health -- 1.6 Gender, Unpaid Domestic Labour and Duties, and Health -- 1.7 Gender Differences in Health: Different Exposure or Vulnerability? -- 1.7.1 Different Exposure or Vulnerability: The Evidence-Base -- 1.7.2 Limitations of the Two Theories -- 1.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2: Creating Inclusion to Leverage Workforce Diversity from a Work Characteristics Perspective -- 2.1 Inconclusive Effects of Workforce Diversity in Organisations -- 2.2 Antecedents of Individual Inclusion Experience -- 2.2.1 How Workforce Diversity Shapes the Work Environment -- 2.2.2 How Work Characteristics Influence the Experience of Inclusion -- 2.3 Consequences of Diversity and Inclusion for Employee Well-being and Performance -- 2.4 Feedback Loops: Influencing the Work Environment and Diversity through Healthy, Productive, and Highly Included Employees -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Work-Life Balance and Gender: Challenging Assumptions and Unravelling Complexity -- 3.1 Setting the Scene: The Changing Nature of Work and Domestic Roles -- 3.2 What Is Work-Life Balance? Different Meanings to Different People -- 3.3 `Balance´, Work and Gender: A Complex Interplay -- 3.3.1 Challenging Assumptions: Are Work-Life Balance Issues `Worse´ for Women? -- 3.3.2 Law, Policy, Work-Life Balance and Gender -- 3.4 Life-Course Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender -- 3.5 Future Challenges for Investigating Work-Life Balance and Gender.

Abstract
This article explores the introduction of electoral gender quotas and the unprecedented social mobilization in pursuit of gender equality in Poland. The quota law was adopted as a citizens' initiative organized by the Congress of Women, a new women's movement. The article analyzes the factors that account for the success of this initiative, which permanently changed the public debate on gender rights in Poland. In contrast to other countries with legislative gender quotas, the Polish law was the result of bottom-up processes, and it has a strong democratic legitimacy. The law has not significantly influenced the representation of women in the Parliament, yet it significantly mainstreamed the gender perspective in the public debate. Nonetheless, the way in which the quota law has been applied by political parties shows that Polish women in politics are a "minority" devoid of power, and that the prospects for a parity democracy are still remote.

There is a lot of evidence about gender bias in the media, but not clear evidence about its causes. In this article, we study the influence of journalist's gender and editor's gender on gender bias in the Chilean press through time. Based on content analysis of 2,645 news articles from Chilean leading newspapers and logistic regression, results confirm the relevance of gender of both journalists and editors on the presence of gender bias in the Chilean press, being a permanent behavior through time. Our research suggests that the more women in the newsrooms, the greater women's representation by the news media.

"Gender identity is a concept that young people are talking about in increasingly open ways, and they need resources to help them better understand this complex topic. This sensitive and age-appropriate overview of gender identity features helpful definitions and explanations, an introduction to the use of preferred pronouns, and tips for talking to both peers and adults about this topic. Fact boxes and graphic organizers supplement the carefully researched main text, and full-color photographs make this topic more accessible and relatable for young readers. As they explore the informative text, they're encouraged to develop empathy and an appreciation for diversity"--

Inhalt: I. Einführung (Bührer, Susanne/Schraudner, Martina). - 2. Schraudner, Martina: Beispiele für Gender- und Diversity-Aspekte. - II. Entwicklung eines Leitfadens zur Ermittlung von Gender-Aspekten und Anwendung auf Fallbeispiele (1. Entwicklung eines Gender-Leitfadens. - 2. Anwendung auf Fallbeispiele. - 2.1 Forschungsgebiet Energie und Umwelt. - 2.2 Forschungsgebiet Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik. - 2.3 Forschungsgebiet Life Sciences. - 2.4 Forschungsgebiet Produktionstechnik und Arbeitsorganisation. - 2.5 Forschungsgebiet Transport und Verkehr). - III. Gendersensible Sprache und Forschungsmethoden (HoF/Text übernommen)

AbstractGossip initiations and listener responses were examined in conversations between 25 female‐female, 19 male‐male and 24 female‐male pairs of friends. Participants were 18 to 21 years of age (mean age = 19) and had known one another at least 2 months (mean length = 24 months). Transcribed tape recordings of 5–minute unstructured conversations were analyzed for gossip initiations (evalutive comments about a familiar third person) and gossip responses (discouraging, neutral, mildly encouraging, moderately encouraging, highly encouraging). Overall, encouraging responses were more likely than discouraging or neutral responses. Group differences were also observed. Negative gossip was more likely to occur between female pairs than between male pairs or cross‐gender pairs. Also, among female pairs only, negative gossip was more likely than positive gossip. Furthermore, the female pairs tended to respond to evaluative gossip with highly encouraging comments. There were no gender differences within the cross‐gender pairs associated with any behaviors. The findings suggest that women may be more likely than men to use and encourage gossip in same‐gender friendships in order to establish solidarity and make social comparisons.

Data gathered by the authors from undergraduate and part‐time graduate business students in 1976‐1977 suggested that men were more likely than women to aspire to top management and that, consistent with traditional stereotypes of males and managers, a gender identity consisting of high masculinity and low femininity was associated with aspirations to top management. As a result of gender‐related social changes, we expected the gender difference in aspirations to top management but not the importance of gender identity to have decreased over time. We collected data in 1999 from the same two populations to test these notions. In newly collected data, high masculinity (but not low femininity) was still associated with such aspirations, and men still aspired to top management positions more than women. However, the gender difference in aspirations to top management did not decrease over time.

In Australia, microfinance is gaining visibility as a distinct poverty alleviation strategy. Within the Australian microfinance policy and program discourses, the microfinance sector is framed as targeting both men and women equally. Yet at the practice level, the majority of loan recipients are women. Such a gender neutral framing is in stark contrast to microfinance policy and practices developed elsewhere. This paper explores how gender is represented in microfinance policy and practice in Australia, drawing on an analysis of the policy and practice statements of Australian microfinance programs. It is argued that the robust feminist assessments of the relationship between microfinance and gender equality that have emerged in developing countries could usefully inform Australian developments in this area of social policy, but that this shift requires acknowledging gender in the framing of the problem Australian microfinance seeks to address.