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This sequel to the hugely popular utopian novel Looking Backward delves more deeply into the unique philosophical principles upon which Bellamy based his imagined society. The rich and detailed account of everyday life in a perfect world -- touching on aspects of living ranging from clothing to currency -- is sure to spark the imagination of any reader who has ever stopped to ponder how things could be better

This sequel to the hugely popular utopian novel Looking Backward delves more deeply into the unique philosophical principles upon which Bellamy based his imagined society. The rich and detailed account of everyday life in a perfect world -- touching on aspects of living ranging from clothing to currency -- is sure to spark the imagination of any reader who has ever stopped to ponder how things could be better.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Circular Economy - Circular Lives: Sustainable Living for Men, Women and Children -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Eight-Hour Working Day -- The Six-Hour Working Day -- Gender Equality and Gender Justice -- Work-Sharing and Part-Time - The Norwegian Context -- Methods -- Findings -- Task Division and Relationships -- The Work-Sharing Couples Revisited -- Evaluating Work-Sharing -- Work-Sharing and Generational Transmission -- Childhood Memories about Care and Relations to Parents -- Sons and Daughters of Dual-Career Parents -- Work-Care Adaptation and Generational Transmission -- Gender Roles -- Work Motivation and Working Time Preferences -- The Anglo-American Context -- Dual-Career Families -- The Organisational Strategy for Gender Equality -- Work-Life Balance a Myth? -- Perspectives for the Future -- Changing Masculinities -- Women's Claims and Protests -- Children's Welfare -- Legal Measures for Working Time Reduction -- Why and How We Work -- Economy -- The Six-Hour Day Step-by-Step -- Income Guarantee or Citizen Salary -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Challenges for Gender Equality in the Workplace: Acknowledging the Past and Embracing the Future of Work in a Smart Technology World -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Past Issues of Gender Inequality (Where We Were?) -- Not Radically Changed Gender Stereotypes and Roles -- The Persistently Low Representation of Women in Top Leadership Positions -- The Rise of Gender-Inclusive Language -- Contemporary Issues (Where are We?) -- Persistent Global Gender Inequality and Pay Gap -- Similar Leadership Perceptions but Different Scores on Transformational Leadership Dimensions between Genders -- Deterrents to Women's Development in the Workplace -- Uneven Gendered Practices Associated with Academic Mobility and Career Choice.

Democracy establishes relationships of political equality, ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they do together and respect each other as equals. But in today's divided public square, democracy is challenged by political thinkers who disagree about how democratic institutions should be organized, and by antidemocratic politicians who exploit uncertainties about what democracy requires and why it matters. Democratic Equality mounts a bold and persuasive defense of democracy as a way of making collective decisions, showing how equality of authority is essential to relating equally as citizens.James Lindley Wilson explains why the U.S. Senate and Electoral College are urgently in need of reform, why proportional representation is not a universal requirement of democracy, how to identify racial vote dilution and gerrymandering in electoral districting, how to respond to threats to democracy posed by wealth inequality, and how judicial review could be more compatible with the democratic ideal. What emerges is an emphatic call to action to reinvigorate our ailing democracies, and a road map for widespread institutional reform.Democratic Equality highlights the importance of diverse forms of authority in democratic deliberation and electoral and representative processes—and demonstrates how that authority rests equally with each citizen in a democracy

This book examines the role of 'Europe' in defining, maintaining, constructing, and remedying sex discrimination. The author investigates the origins, institutions, and policies associated with recent European Union efforts to stem violence against women, sex trafficking, racism, and heterosexism

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.

"Although thinkers of the past might have started from presumptions of fundamental difference and inequality between (say) the genders, or people of different races, this is no longer the case. At least in mainstream political philosophy, we are all now presumed to be, in some fundamental sense, basic equals. Of course, what follows from this putative fact of basic equality remains enormously controversial: liberals, libertarians, conservatives, Marxists, republicans, and so on, continue to disagree vigorously with each other, despite all presupposing some kind of basic equality. They may argue about who gets what, how much, and why, but the starting point - that all people are in some sense deserving of prima facie equal consideration - has become an axiom of our moral and political thinking. But why? Why are we basic equals? The trouble is that as soon as one asks for an explanation of this foundational premise, it begins to look shaky. After all, on any conceivable metric human beings are notably unequal, and often to striking degrees. Philosophers in this area tend to talk of equal worth, but often without trying to specify what exactly that means. Philosophically, basic equality is neither acceptable nor rejectable. It is not rejectable because we appear to be, as a matter of fact, profoundly committed to the truth of the claim that we are all one another's basic equals. But to the extent that there appear to be no philosophical arguments for believing in the truth of basic equality, it is not acceptable either. The aim of this book is to try and show why basic equality is acceptable. To do so, however, it will also contend that we need to approach the question rather differently to how it has mostly been handled so far. What's required is an exercise in what Bernard Williams called 'impure philosophy': it must include insights from other areas of human intellectual endeavour, whether psychology and history or even what we learn from how we go about practicing basic equality in our collective lives"--

Equality is a contentious issue in our society today. This is why it's important for students to be given information related to equality so they can come to reasonable conclusions of their own. Using age-appropriate language, this book discusses equality in a number of different forms and touches upon why equality is so important in a democracy. The text also explores how extreme equality, like most extremes, could be a bad and unrealistic idea. Readers will gain enough information to understand and think about this complex idea for themselves.

Egalitarians have traditionally been suspicious of equality of opportunity, but recently there has been a sea-change in egalitarian thinking about that concept. Shlomi Segall brings together these developments in egalitarian theory and offers a comprehensive account of 'radical equality of opportunity'