Gender Equality In Politics

Author : Emanuela Lombardo,Petra Meier,Mieke Verloo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134031115

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The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality by Emanuela Lombardo,Petra Meier,Mieke Verloo Pdf

This book explores the discursive constructions of gender equality and the implications of these understandings in a broad range of policy fields. Using gender equality as a prime example, a number of internationally renowned scholars offer a new vocabulary to identify and study processes of the reduction, amplification, shifting or freezing of meaning. The main aim of the book is to understand the dynamics and to reflect on the consequences of such discursive politics in recent policy making on gender equality. It explores both the potential opportunities that are opened up for the promotion of equality through discursive politics, and the limitations they impose. Distinctive features of the volume include: chapters covering a range of case studies in Europe, the USA, and the Asia region, tackling contemporary political debates on equality new insights of relevance to public policy practices such as gender mainstreaming, with theorizing on intersecting inequalities The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality will be of interest to students and scholars, of political science, public policy, comparative politics, gender and women studies.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264921412

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Government at a Glance 2021 by OECD Pdf

The 2021 edition includes input indicators on public finance and employment; process indicators include data on institutions, budgeting practices, human resources management, regulatory governance, public procurement, governance of infrastructure, public sector integrity, open government and digital government. Outcome indicators cover core government results (e.g. trust, political efficacy, inequality reduction) and indicators on access, responsiveness, quality and satisfaction for the education, health and justice sectors.

Author : Julie Ballington
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Women
ISBN : 9789291423798

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Equality in Politics by Julie Ballington Pdf

Author : Sohela Nazneen,Sam Hickey,Eleni Sifaki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351245609

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Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South (Open Access) by Sohela Nazneen,Sam Hickey,Eleni Sifaki Pdf

The fact that women have achieved higher levels of political inclusion within low- and middle-income countries has generated much speculation about whether this is reaping broader benefits in tackling gender-based inequalities. This book uncovers the multiple political dynamics that influence governments to adopt and implement gender equity policies, pushing the debate beyond simply the role of women’s inclusion in influencing policy. Bringing the politics of development into discussion with feminist literature on women's empowerment, the book proposes the new concept of ‘power domains’ as a way to capture how inter-elite bargaining, coalitional politics, and social movement activism combine to shape policies that promote gender equity. In particular, the book investigates the conditions under which countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have adopted legislation against domestic violence, which remains widespread in many developing countries. The book demonstrates that women’s presence in formal politics and policy spaces does not fully explain the pace in adopting and implementing domestic violence law. Underlying drivers of change within broader domains of power also include the role of clientelistic politics and informal processes of bargaining, coalition-building, and persuasion; the discursive framing of gender-equitable ideas; and how transnational norms influence women’s political inclusion and gender-inclusive policy outcomes. The comparative approach across Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Ghana, India, and Bangladesh demonstrates how advancing gender equality varies by political context and according to the interests surrounding a particular issue. Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South will be of interest to students and scholars of gender and development, as well as to activists within governments, political parties, nongovernmental organizations, women’s movements, and donor agencies, at national and international levels, who are looking to develop effective strategies for advancing gender equality.

Author : Kari Melby,Christina Carlsson Wetterberg,Anna-Birte Ravn
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847424651

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Gender Equality and Welfare Politics in Scandinavia by Kari Melby,Christina Carlsson Wetterberg,Anna-Birte Ravn Pdf

This book examines the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of gender equality and gender differentiation.

Author : Lori Cox Han,Caroline Heldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9780197694206

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Women, Power, and Politics by Lori Cox Han,Caroline Heldman Pdf

""As women continue to gain more prominence as active participants in the American political and electoral process as voters, candidates, and officeholders, it becomes even more important to understand how gender shapes political power and the distribution of resources within our society. There are many areas of research in a variety of disciplines focusing on women, gender, and feminism, and many of them intersect with a discussion of women in American politics. Our goal in writing this book is to present these topics in an interesting, lively, and timely way through an analysis of contemporary political gender-related issues. We hope to have provided just enough of an historical context to get students interested in the evolution of women in American political life, and enough theory and analysis to inspire them to seek more information and knowledge about gender justice today. The study of women and U.S. politics, as well as the role gender plays in the broader political context, has emerged as a powerful voice within the discipline of Political Science in the last few decades. As such, we hope that readers find this text a useful addition to the ongoing dialogue while instructors find it to be a useful pedagogical tool for their courses on women/gender and politics"--

Author : Torben Iversen,Frances McCall Rosenbluth,Professor Frances Rosenbluth, PhD
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300153101

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Women, Work, and Politics by Torben Iversen,Frances McCall Rosenbluth,Professor Frances Rosenbluth, PhD Pdf

This book presents an original and groundbreaking approach to gender inequality. Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, the authors demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home, which is a function of structural, political, and institutional conditions.--[book jacket].

Author : M. Alston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137390578

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Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia by M. Alston Pdf

A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities.

Author : Lynne Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429982644

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Women and Politics by Lynne Ford Pdf

Women and Politics is a comprehensive examination of women's use of politics in pursuit of gender equality. How can demands for gender equality be reconciled with sex differences? Resolving this paradoxical question has proceeded along two paths: the legal equality doctrine, which emphasizes gender neutrality, and the fairness doctrine, which recognizes differences between men and women. The text's clear analysis and presentation of theory and history helps students to think critically about the difficulties faced by women in politics, and about how public policies in education, labour and the economy, and family and fertility, impact gender equality. The fully-revised fourth edition explores new critical perspectives, recent political events, and current challenges to gender equality, including the 2016 presidential election and Hillary Clinton's candidacy, the fight for equal pay and paid leave, and the debate over reproductive rights and campus sexual assault. It also includes current scholarship on the intersections of race, class, and gender, and expanded coverage of minority women, women in the military, and conservative women. This text, and its two-path framework, is essential to understanding women's pursuit of equality via the political system.

Author : Emanuela Lombardo,Petra Meier,Mieke Verloo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134031122

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The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality by Emanuela Lombardo,Petra Meier,Mieke Verloo Pdf

Adopting a critical perspective, this book explores how the concept of gender equality is ‘stretched and bent’ in different ways according to the intervention of policy actors and assesses the consequences of the processes the policy-framing.

Author : Silke Roth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1845455169

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Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union by Silke Roth Pdf

In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either western or eastern Europe, this book investigates the similarities and differences in diverse parts of Europe. Although initially limited, gender equality was part of the original framework of the European Union, an organization often more open than national governments to feminist demands, as this volume illustrates with case studies from eastern and western Europe. The enlargement process thus provides some important policy instruments for increasing equality between men and women.

Author : Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849291095

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The Impact of Women’s Political Leadership on Democracy and Development by Commonwealth Secretariat Pdf

Women’s minimal leadership role in national and local political spheres remains a serious concern worldwide. The Commonwealth Gender Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005–2015 calls on governments to introduce measures to promote at least 30 per cent representation of women in parliament, government and business. The Impact of Women’s Political Leadership on Democracy and Development describes the barriers to women’s political participation and explains why the contribution of women is so crucial to democracy. It identifies established strategies – electoral reform (New Zealand), party voluntary quotas (South Africa), and legislative quotas (Bangladesh and India) – that have helped these Commonwealth countries to meet the global target of 30 per cent and thus to effectively advance the participation of women in decision-making at all levels.

Author : Kristin A Goss
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472037834

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The Paradox of Gender Equality by Kristin A Goss Pdf

Kristin A. Goss examines how women’s civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. As measured by women’s groups’ appearances before the U.S. Congress, women’s collective political engagement continued to grow between 1920 and 1960—when many conventional accounts claim it declined—and declined after 1980, when it might have been expected to grow. Goss asks what women have gained, and perhaps lost, through expanded incorporation, as well as whether single-sex organizations continue to matter in 21st-century America.

Author : Lynn Prince Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135847500

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Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies by Lynn Prince Cooke Pdf

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better social and economic outcomes. This book is the first to meld cross-time with cross-country comparisons, link macro structures to micro behavior, and connect class with gender dynamics to yield fresh insights into where we are on the road to gender equality, why it varies across industrialized countries, and the barriers to further progress.

Author : Petra Ahrens,Katja Chmilewski,Sabine Lang,Birgit Sauer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030348953

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Gender Equality in Politics by Petra Ahrens,Katja Chmilewski,Sabine Lang,Birgit Sauer Pdf

This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresentation of women in legislatures. Using a most similar case design and a mixed-methods approach, the authors draw attention to the ways in which electoral systems and party regulations interface with voluntary party quotas in Germany and Austria. All quota parties in these countries support the goal of equal participation of women and men in elected office, and quotas are presented as a means to precisely that end. In order to assess parties’ commitment to their declared goals, and the effectiveness of quotas, the book introduces the concept of the post-quota gender gap and defines it as the difference between a party’s adopted quota and the actual share of women in legislative bodies at the national and regional level. Complementing the existing literature on recruitment and socio-cultural legacies, the authors argue that the problem of voluntary party quotas lies at the intersection of party quota design and electoral law. Either parties need to design quotas that actually work within a given electoral system, or we need legislative action geared toward advancing parity not just in candidate selection, but in the composition of legislatures. The book draws on gendered candidate and election data, on the party statutes of federal and state-level party organizations, and on interviews with party officials and party women’s organizations.