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COVER -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES, TABLES, AND BOXES -- FOREWOFD -- ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION -- ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Social and Political Characteristics -- 1.2 Economic Characteristics -- 1.3 Development Challenges -- 1.4 Gender and Development -- 2 EDUCATION -- 2.1 Overview of the Education System -- 2.2 Analysis of Gender Issues -- 2.3 Taking Action -- 2.4 Recommendations -- 3 HEALTH AND WELL-BEING -- 3.1 Overview of the Health System -- 3.2 Analysis of Gender Issues -- 3.3 Taking Action -- 3.4 Recommendations -- 4 GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE -- 4.1 Overview of the Criminal Justice System -- 4.2 Analysis of Gender Issues -- 4.3 Taking Action -- 4.4 Recommendations -- 5 WORK AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT -- 5.1 Categorization of Work and Labor Force Participation -- 5.2 Analysis of Gender Issues -- 5.3 Taking Action -- 5.4 Recommendations -- 6 GOVERNANCE, INFLUENCE, AND DECISION MAKING -- 6.1 Overview of the Political System -- 6.2 Key Gender Issues -- 6.3 Taking Action -- 6.4 Recommendations -- 7 GENDER EQUALITY FRAMEWORK -- 7.1 Overview -- 7.2 Timor-Leste's Commitment to Gender Equality -- 7.3 Mechanisms for Achieving Gender equality -- 7.4 Recommendations -- 8 CONCLUSION -- FIGURES -- 1.1 Map of Timor-Leste -- 1.2 Industries Contributing to Non-oil Gross Domestic Product, 2011 -- 1.3 Gender Inequality Index: A Comparison of Countries, 2011-2012 -- 2.1 Trends in Net Enrollment Rates by Level of Schooling and Sex, 2008-2009 and 2010 -- 2.2 Proportion of Students Who Drop Out of School by Sex and Grade, 2010 -- 2.3 Causes of Dropout Given by Girls and Boys Who Dropped out of Grade 4, 5, or 6, 2011 -- 2.4 Repetition Rate (Proportion of Students Who Repeat a Grade) by Sex and Grade, 2010 -- 2.5 School Attendance of Children Age 10-14 by Sex and Vulnerable Groups, 2009-2010.

"From the way we dress to the way we are treated by our peers, gender is a crucial part of our identity, which is threaded into every aspect of our lives. In this fascinating introduction, Franklin discusses the effects of gender identity on behavior, then explores the theoretical perspectives on why these differences occur"--

COVER -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION: Princesses, Priuses, and Penises -- CHAPTER ONE: Relearning Gender -- CHAPTER TWO: The Family's Path Is Covered with Roses and Thorns -- CHAPTER THREE: True Gender Self, False Gender Self, Gender Creativity -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Gender-Creative Parent -- CHAPTER FIVE: One Pill Makes You Girl, One Pill Makes You Boy -- CHAPTER SIX: We Are Family -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Gender-Creative Therapist -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Who Are the Genders in Your Neighborhood? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

International audience ; The protests which have been ongoing in North-African countries since February 2011 have contributed towards giving visibility to that component of society often neglected by the dominant male model: women. Female bodies occupied not only the front covers of important magazines (Libération, n.9253, 12th-13th February 2011; Los Angeles Times, Saturday 12th February), but also a traditional male space: the public space. This media visibility of women has given new food for thought on gender issues as well as on issues concerning dominating relationships that the ever reigning patriarchal system continues to perpetrate on a global level.Assuming that in most of these societies such relationships largely determine people's roles and lives, can one speak of a specificity in the Mediterranean setting? The predominant image of the Mediterranean world is that of a closed context, refractory to transformation, anchored in sexist traditions and still a long way from effective equality and access to politics and positions of power. Just such a stereotype, legitimized by Anglo-Saxon traditional studies and research on the Mediterranean city (c.f. Minca 2004) and still commonly predominant, has been put into question by the active role played by women in social movements which have lately taken place in the whole of the Mediterranean basin1. The pictures of women engaged in protest and demonstration have gone around the world. However, what do the women of the Arab awakening and the Spanish indignados women2 have in common? The presence of their bodies on town squares and streets. Virtual space has also held a starring role in the protests. The role of technology and the network in social and political change has been vastly covered both in scientific contexts (e.g. Paradiso 2003, 2006) and in popular contexts; particular reference can be made to the Green Wave in Iran (Mouillard 2009; Hare and Darani 2010). Furthermore, with the 2011 protests, attention has been focused specifically on the relation ...

International audience ; The protests which have been ongoing in North-African countries since February 2011 have contributed towards giving visibility to that component of society often neglected by the dominant male model: women. Female bodies occupied not only the front covers of important magazines (Libération, n.9253, 12th-13th February 2011; Los Angeles Times, Saturday 12th February), but also a traditional male space: the public space. This media visibility of women has given new food for thought on gender issues as well as on issues concerning dominating relationships that the ever reigning patriarchal system continues to perpetrate on a global level.Assuming that in most of these societies such relationships largely determine people's roles and lives, can one speak of a specificity in the Mediterranean setting? The predominant image of the Mediterranean world is that of a closed context, refractory to transformation, anchored in sexist traditions and still a long way from effective equality and access to politics and positions of power. Just such a stereotype, legitimized by Anglo-Saxon traditional studies and research on the Mediterranean city (c.f. Minca 2004) and still commonly predominant, has been put into question by the active role played by women in social movements which have lately taken place in the whole of the Mediterranean basin1. The pictures of women engaged in protest and demonstration have gone around the world. However, what do the women of the Arab awakening and the Spanish indignados women2 have in common? The presence of their bodies on town squares and streets. Virtual space has also held a starring role in the protests. The role of technology and the network in social and political change has been vastly covered both in scientific contexts (e.g. Paradiso 2003, 2006) and in popular contexts; particular reference can be made to the Green Wave in Iran (Mouillard 2009; Hare and Darani 2010). Furthermore, with the 2011 protests, attention has been focused specifically on the relation ...

Das Vordringen von Frauen in wirtschaftliche Führungspositionen in Europa ist ein langsamer aber stetiger Prozess. Jüngste naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse deuten darauf hin, dass Frauen für Gruppenkommunikation und Entscheidungsfindung in Stresssituationen biologisch besser geeignet sind als Männer. Wissenschaftliche Studien, die sich mit den Auswirkungen eines verstärkten Frauenanteils in Führungspositionen von Unternehmen befassen, zeigen dass Frauen in solchen Funktionen deutlich zum wirtschaftlichen Erfolg beitragen. So kamen z.B. Firmen mit gemischtem Frauen-Männer-Management besser durch die weltweite Finanzkrise. Selbst in - bezüglich der Rolle von Frauen - konservativen Ländern wie Japan und Saudi-Arabien zeigt sich ein Umdenkungsprozess hinsichtlich der Repräsentanz von Frauen in Führungspositionen. (IFSH/Pll)

As a strategy to promote gender equality, gender mainstreaming has received considerable attention worldwide. The language of gender mainstreaming has been quickly adopted (True and Mintrom 2001), which is why, in the beginning, many hopes were pinned on this strategy. Scholars have shown that gender mainstreaming has triggered organizational and procedural changes within state bureaucracies, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations. Gender equality units have been established, new policy tools have been introduced, and new procedures have been created. But feminist scholars also have shown that, all these changes notwithstanding, gender mainstreaming has not proven to be successful in achieving gender equality (cf. True and Parisi 2013). More than 15 years after the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, there are serious problems in translating the commitment into action. This is, as many scholars argue, not only a result of institutional and political resistance to substantially changing gender relations, but also a matter of conceptual clarity (Daly 2005; Lombardo and Meier 2006; Meier and Celis 2011; Subrahmanian 2004).