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"This book explores why equality and equity are often mischaracterized as interchangeable terms in public education. It discusses equity, including historical and social contexts of equity, rationale for continued focus on equality, school reform as a form of equity and the how a Eurocentric curriculum prohibits an equitable distribution of resources and opportunities in modern education"--

Introduction1 Change among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities and Gender Equality2 Steering toward Equality? How Gender Regimes Change inside the State3 The Neoliberal Parent: Mothers and Fathers in Market Society4 Working-Class Families and the New Secondary Education5 Good Teachers on Dangerous Ground6 Not the Pyramids: Intellectual Workers Today7 Sociology has a World History8 Paulin Hountondji's Postcolonial Sociology of Knowledge9 Antonio Negri's Theory of Empire10 Bread and Waratahs: A Letter to the Next LeftAcknowledgmentsReferences

Organizing Equality engages activist and scholarly debates about the organization of social and economic equality movements around the globe. The collection highlights a myriad of issues, approaches, and experiences, forging a link between critical scholarly studies and artistic works that offer more personal and hands-on perspectives.

Direct democracy is seen as a potential cure to the malaise of representative democracy. It is increasingly used worldwide. However, research on the effects of direct democracy on important indicators like socio-economic, legal, and political equality is scarce, and mainly limited to Europe and the US. The global perspective is missing. This article starts to close this gap. It presents descriptive findings on direct democratic votes at the national level in the (partly) free countries of the Global South and Oceania between 1990 and 2015. It performs the first comparative analysis of direct democracy on these continents. Contradicting concerns that direct democracy may be a threat to equality, we found more bills aimed at increasing equality. Likewise, these votes produced more pro- than contra-equality outputs. This held for all continents as well as for all dimensions of equality.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Gendering Constitutions -- Introduction -- Why Constitutional Gender Provisions Matter -- Gendering Constitutions: A Typology -- A Mixed Methods Approach -- Organization of the Book -- References -- 2 Why Constitutions Matter for Gender Equality -- Introduction -- Why Constitutions Matter for Gender Policy and Gender Equality -- Theoretical Expectations -- Enhances the Legitimacy of Rights Claims -- Enables Policy Change -- Provides Legal Tools and Arguments That Facilitate Litigation -- Comparing Constitutions and Gender Equality -- A Database of Constitutional Gender Provisions -- Gender Provisions Across Countries and Across Time -- Building a Typology of Gender in Constitutions -- Methods -- Quantitative Analysis -- Case Studies -- References -- 3 Constitutional Gender Provisions and Equality: Cross-National Evidence -- Introduction -- Gender Provisions and Mid-Range Outcomes -- Gender-Based Violence Provisions -- Reproductive Rights Provisions -- Workplace Protection and Equality Provisions -- Family and Customary Law Provisions -- Multivariate Analysis -- Measuring Gender Equality -- Egalitarian, Maternal, and Gender-Neutral Provisions -- Alternative Explanations and Control Variables -- Women's Mobilization -- Democracy and Constitution Age -- Judicial Independence -- Socio-Economic Development and Population -- Panel Regressions -- Robustness Checks -- Conclusion -- Chapter Appendix -- References -- 4 Gender Provisions, Rights Advocacy, and Policy Outcomes in Chile and Argentina -- Introduction -- Constitutional Provisions and Policy Change-Expectations -- Enhances the Legitimacy of Rights Claims -- Enables Policy Change -- Provides Legal Tools and Arguments -- Comparing Constitutions.

Gornick and Meyers offer proposals for advancing gender egalitarianism in care of children and in the labor market. This article examines the extent to which these proposals can be extended beyond the United States and other wealthy countries. I argue that the Gornick and Meyers proposals are dependent on a particular set of global and national labor market factors, and on a peculiar configuration of institutions and political forces. The article lays out some of these key contours of the global care labor market, as well as the divergent nature of public and private institutions in developing countries. I venture that the Gornick and Meyers proposals for egalitarianism are not universalizable without radical changes in the global arena.

Introduction: How cross-cultural equality became thinkable -- Visions of a common humanity -- Religious and philosophical universalisms -- History, ethnography, and the anthropological turn -- Thinking across frontiers in medieval Islam -- The Atlantic frontier and the limits of Christian equality -- Global equality and inequality in Enlightenment thought -- Modern equality and scientific racism in the nineteenth century -- The globalization of equality -- The age of human rights -- Epilogue: The future of global equality