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This book explores and reflects on peacebuilding, which emerges from the experiences and realities of women's lives in East Africa, specifically, in Uganda. The author argues that often these community based peacebuilding efforts are responses to women's struggles for survival -- both individually and for their families and communities. Carefully analyzing education, women's roles, human rights, conflicts, disability and immigration, this book helps to understand African women's roles in development and peacebuilding in the region. The project will interest development studies and African politics scholars, graduate students, researchers and policy makers. Jennifer Ball is Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, Canada.--

This article explores the relationship between occupational segregation by sex and economic development, feminization of the workforce, and neoliberal structural adjustment. Using Anker-adjusted Duncan indices calculated from detailed occupational data for 49 countries to measure occupational segregation by sex, an OLS analysis suggests that job segregation of the nonagricultural workforce is positively related to economic development and negatively related to feminization of the workforce. The analysis is inconclusive regarding job segregation and neoliberal structural adjustment, but it does provide some evidence of a negative relationship. Although there are a few existing studies focusing on export sectors of particular countries, this is the first large scale cross-national study to examine the relationship between structural adjustment and job segregation by sex. This study also adds to the evidence provided by other scholars regarding the relationship between job segregation and economic development, and between job segregation and feminization of the labor force.

"The Stacked Deck explores the nature and effects of inequality in Canada. It begins with an overview of the history of inequality and frameworks commonly used to study social inequality and the characteristics of vulnerable populations before moving on to take a closer look at significant barriers to key resources, including employment income, child care, education, housing, food, health care. The second edition includes greater coverage on the history and theory of inequality, beginning each resource-focused chapter by presenting a range of theoretical perspectives on the function of these resources in society, before providing a detailed co of the real-world Canadian reality. Thoroughly updated to include 2016 census data and other current information, The Stacked Deck, 2e gives students the tools they need to think critically about one of the most pressing social issues facing Canada today."--