Gendered Trajectories

Author : Wei-hsin Yu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804771047

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Gendered Trajectories by Wei-hsin Yu Pdf

Gendered Trajectories explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century. Japan has undergone much less improvement in women's economic status than Taiwan, despite its more advanced economy and greater welfare provisions. The difference is particularly puzzling because the two countries share many institutional practices and values. Drawing on historical trends, survey statistics, and personal interviews with people in both countries, Yu shows how country-specific organizational arrangements and industrial policies affect women's employment. In particular, the conditions faced by Japanese and Taiwanese women in the workplace have a profound effect on their labor force participation at critical points in their lives. Women's lifetime employment decisions in turn shape the divergent trajectories in gender equality. Few studies documenting the development of women's economic lives are based on non-Western societies and even fewer adopt a comparative perspective. This perceptive work demonstrates and underscores the importance of understanding gender inequality as a long-term, dynamic social process.

Author : Renata Siemieńska,Annette Zimmer
Publisher : Barbara Budrich
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015073915814

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Gendered Career Trajectories in Academia in Cross-national Perspective by Renata Siemieńska,Annette Zimmer Pdf

What are the academic career options for women in various European countries? What has changed? Does the glass ceiling still exist? In a comparative perspective, contributors from different countries provide answers to these questions. By investigating the interrelationship between strategy and structure, the articles in this study focus on the interconnectedness between the institutional environment of systems of higher education and the strategic behavior, aspirations, hopes, and desires of female academics. The book examines how such systems impact those women looking back on their career path, those just starting to think about a career in academia, or those on their way to applying for a leadership position at a university.

Author : Vicky Duckworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134089390

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Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners by Vicky Duckworth Pdf

Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners offers deep insights into the lives of marginalised communities and the link between learning, literacy and violence, not previously carried out in-depth in a small scale study. It breaks the negative stereo-types of adults who struggle to read and write, who are often labelled and stigmatised by dominant discourses, and in doing so exposes why and how Basic Skills Learners often find themselves in marginal positions. The structural inequalities many face from childhood to adulthood across the private and public domains of their lives are revealed and probed, thus challenging neo-liberalism claims of an apparently egalitarian social field. The learners’ narratives expose the contradiction, complexities and ambivalences they experience in their daily lives, and how they try to make sense of them from their structural positioning as basic skills learners in a society based on inequality of opportunity and choice. Applying a feminist, qualitative, longitudinal, ethnographic and participatory approach, the book offers a critical perspective, drawing on Bourdieu’s work as the theoretical framework, as well as using a range of feminist, sociologists of education, literature on the ethics of care and critical literacy pedagogy, including the New Literacy Studies. The author’s personal position as an ’insider’ with ‘insider knowledge’ of marginalised communities is also woven throughout the chapters and offers insights into the struggles, conformity and resistance faced by the participants in the study. The book contributes to the debate on the impact of violence on learning and its link to class, gender and basic skills as well opening up a discussion on the power of a critical curriculum to empower people across the domains of their lives. It will be valuable reading for trainee teachers, teachers, education and sociology students, postgraduate students, as well as literacy specialists, researchers, academics, policy makers and managers of public services.

Author : René Levy,Eric D. Widmer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783643801432

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Gendered Life Courses Between Standardization and Individualization by René Levy,Eric D. Widmer Pdf

This volume presents an integrated approach to life-course analysis with innovations on the theoretical, empirical and methodological level. Life courses are considered as multidimensional individual trajectories that are influenced not only by available resources and by trajectories of closely related others (children, partners), but also by gender and by specific institutional configurations. This approach is applied to Switzerland, a society mixing modern and traditional elements.

Author : Denise A. Segura,Patricia Zavella
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0822341182

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Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Denise A. Segura,Patricia Zavella Pdf

Seminal essays on how women adapt to the structural transformations caused by the large migration from Mexico to the U.S.A., how they create or contest representations of their identities in light of their marginality, and give voice to their own agency.

Author : Stephanie Barrientos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108600651

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Gender and Work in Global Value Chains by Stephanie Barrientos Pdf

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The growth of contemporary retail has been driven by the commercialised production of many goods previously produced unpaid by women within the home. Sourcing is now largely undertaken through global value chains in low- or middle-income economies, using a 'cheap' feminised labour force to produce low-price goods. As women have been drawn into the labour force, households are increasingly dependent on the purchase of food and consumer goods, blurring the boundaries between paid and unpaid work. This book examines how gendered patterns of work have changed and explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 1032767715

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Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power by Anonim Pdf

"This book explores the gendered experience of disability. It investigates how women with disabilities fare in society focusing on the experiences of women and their interactions with family, society and medical and legal institutions. Women with disabilities face unprecedented levels of violence, oppression and marginalisation in their daily lives as well as a lack of visibility, proper care and opportunities for socio-economic development. This book examines the reasons and consequences of the stigmatisation of disabilities and neurodivergence, denial of proper care, and various forms of exclusion and violence women with disabilities face both within and outside of their homes. It brings together the perspectives of academicians and activists that try and understand the various challenges faced by women with disabilities and highlights the fight for their right to autonomy, respect, equality, and justice. Filling the gap in the existing feminist research, this revised edition seeks to influence the way in which society treats women with disabilities and will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the field of women's rights, disability rights, rehabilitation, social policy, and the body"--

Author : Christiane Timmerman,Maria Lucinda Fonseca,Lore Van Praag,Sónia Pereira
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462701632

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Gender and Migration by Christiane Timmerman,Maria Lucinda Fonseca,Lore Van Praag,Sónia Pereira Pdf

The impact of gender on migration processes Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis by regions, countries, and types of migration reveals a strong variation regarding levels and features of female and male migration. This approach enables us to grasp the distinct ways in which gender roles, perceptions, and relations, each embedded in a particular cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic context, affect migration dynamics. Hence, this volume demonstrates that gender matters at each stage of the migration process. In its entirety, Gender and Migrationgives evidence of the unequivocal impact of gender and gendered structures, both at a micro and macro level, upon migrant’s lives and of migration on gender dynamics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785603464

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Gender Segregation in Vocational Education by Anonim Pdf

This book investigates the contexts of gender segregation in vocational education (VET) from a cross-national, comparative perspective. It tackles questions about occupational expectations, gendered pathways to applied fields of study, feminization of occupations and the relationship between educational choice and opportunity structures.

Author : Julia Cook
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819723324

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Longitudinal Methods in Youth Research by Julia Cook Pdf

Author : Ruth Rubio-Marin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139479837

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The Gender of Reparations by Ruth Rubio-Marin Pdf

Reparation programs seeking to provide for victims of gross and systematic human rights violations are becoming an increasingly frequent feature of transitional and post-conflict processes. Given that women represent a very large proportion of the victims of these conflicts and authoritarianism, it makes sense to examine whether reparation programs can be designed to redress women more fairly and efficiently and seek to subvert gender hierarchies that often antecede the conflict. Focusing on themes such as reparations for victims of sexual and reproductive violence, reparations for children and other family members, as well as gendered understandings of monetary, symbolic, and collective reparations, this text gathers information about how past or existing reparation projects dealt with gender issues, identifies best practices to the extent possible, and articulates innovative approaches and guidelines to the integration of a gender perspective in the design and implementation of reparations for victims of human rights violations.

Author : King, Andrew,Almack, Kathryn
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447335290

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Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities by King, Andrew,Almack, Kathryn Pdf

With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing. It draws on theory and empirical data to provide both conceptual knowledge and clear ‘real-world’ illustrations. The book includes section introductions to guide the reader through the debates and ideas and a glossary offering clear definitions of key terms and concepts.

Author : Pinar Yazgan,M. Murat Yucesahin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781910781616

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Revisiting Gender and Migration by Pinar Yazgan,M. Murat Yucesahin Pdf

Sections of the book: Introduction: Revisiting Gender in the Context of Migration edited by P_nar Yazgan and M. Murat Yüce_ahin Chapter Two: Deconstructing Gender-Migration Relationship: Performativity and Representation by M. Murat Yüce_ahin Chapter Three: Gendered Pathways: Central Asian Migration through the Lens of Embodiment by Natalia Zotova Chapter Four: For Love or for Papers? Sham Marriages among Turkish (Potential) Migrants and Gender Implications by I__k Kulu-Glasgow, Monika Smit and Roel Jennissen Chapter Five: Undocumented Migrant Women in Turkey: Legislation, Labour and Sexual Exploitation by Emel Co_kun Chapter Six: Family Perspective in Migration: A Qualitative Analysis on Turkish Families in Italy by Gül _nce Beqo Chapter Seven: Marriage and Divorce in the Context of Gender and Social Capital: The Case of Turkish Migrants in Germany by Sevim Atila Demir and P_nar Yazgan Chapter Eight: Effects of Refugee Crisis on Gender Policies: Studies on EU and Turkey by Pelin Sönmez

Author : Shannon Eileen Hengen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9056995391

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Performing Gender and Comedy by Shannon Eileen Hengen Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Christine Eriksen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317699675

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Gender and Wildfire by Christine Eriksen Pdf

In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in high fire danger weather with climate change have triggered concern for the safety of such amenity-led migrants in wildfire-prone landscapes. This book examines wildfire awareness and preparedness amongst women, men, households, communities and agencies at the interface between city and beyond. It does so through an examination of two regions where wildfires are common and disastrous, and where how to deal with them is a major political issue: southeast Australia and the west coast United States. It follows women’s and men’s stories of surviving, fighting, evacuating, living and working with wildfire to reveal the intimate inner workings of wildfire response – and especially the culturally and historically distinct gender relations that underpin wildfire resilience. Wildfire is revealed as much more than a "natural" hazard – it is far from gender-neutral. Rather, wildfire is an important means through which traditional gender roles and power relations are maintained despite changing social circumstances. Women’s and men’s subjectivities are shaped by varying senses of inclusion, exclusion, engagement and disengagement with wildfire management. This leads to the reproduction of gender identities with clear ramifications for if, how and to what extent women and men prepare for wildfire.