The Role Of Women

Author : Brigitte Lion,Cécile Michel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614519089

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The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East by Brigitte Lion,Cécile Michel Pdf

Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contracts and acts dealing with family law. Despite these voluminous sources, the topic of work and the contribution of women have rarely been addressed. This book examines occupations involving women over the course of three millennia of Near Eastern history. It presents the various aspects of women as economic agents inside and outside of the family structure. Inside the family, women were the main actors in the production of goods necessary for everyday life. In some instances, their activities exceeded the simple needs of the household and were integrated within the production of large organizations or commercial channels. The contributions presented in this volume are representative enough to address issues in various domains: social, economic, religious, etc., from varied points of view: archaeological, historical, sociological, anthropological, and with a gender perspective. This book will be a useful tool for historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and graduate students interested in the economy of the ancient Near East and in women and gender studies.

Author : World Bank;World Trade Organization
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464815560

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Women and Trade by World Bank;World Trade Organization Pdf

Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women’s bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is essential to assess the potential impact of trade policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance opportunities for all. Research on gender equality and trade has been constrained by limited data and a lack of understanding of the connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new sex-disaggregated data, Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality aims to advance the understanding of the relationship between trade and gender equality and to identify a series of opportunities through which trade can improve the lives of women.

Author : Heather Eggins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319424361

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The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education by Heather Eggins Pdf

This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues. The scope of the book is international, with a wide range of contributors, whose expertise spans sociology, social science, economics, politics, public policy and linguistic studies, all of whom have a major interest in global education. The volume examines the ways in which the leadership role and academic roles of women in higher education are changing in the twenty first century, offering an up-to-date policy discussion of this area. It is in some sense a sequel to the earlier volume by the same Editor, Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education, but with very different emphases. The pressures now are to respond to the demands of the technological age and to those of the global economy. Today there are more highly qualified and experienced female academics, and more expectation of their gaining the highest posts. Challenges still remain, particularly in terms of the top posts, and in equal pay. The discussion of global policy issues affecting the role of women in higher education is combined with country case studies, several of which are comparative. Together they examine and unpack the particular situations of women in a wide range of higher education systems, from Brazil to the US to Europe to Africa and the Far East, noting the shift towards more flexibility, more personal choice and a greater acceptance by society of their abilities. This volume is a useful and influential addition to published work in this area, and is aimed at the intelligent general reader as well as the scholar interested in this topic.

Author : Hans-peter Blossfeld,Kathleen Kiernan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000303926

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The New Role Of Women by Hans-peter Blossfeld,Kathleen Kiernan Pdf

This is the first book to systematically track postwar changes in family formation in Western Europe and the United States. Cohabitation and motherhood outside of marriage have become more widespread at the same time that women’s social roles are evolving. Women are attaining higher levels of education, marrying at an older age, more frequently working outside the home, and have more reproductive freedom due to new advances in contraception. In this original collection of essays, sociologists and demographers from eight Western European countries and the United States use longitudinal data to compare national variations and explain the connection between the new role of women and family formation in postwar society. The contributors provide a thorough review of the social demographic literature to advance a variety of hypotheses about the relationships between changing women’s education and family formation outcomes, which are empirically examined and compared across countries.

Author : Cynthia V. Burek,Bettie Higgs,Geological Society of London
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1862392277

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The Role of Women in the History of Geology by Cynthia V. Burek,Bettie Higgs,Geological Society of London Pdf

This book is a first as it unravels the diverse roles women have played in the history and development of geology as a science predominantly in the UK, Ireland and Australia, and selectively in Germany, Russia and US. The volume covers the period from the late eighteenth century to the present day and shows how the roles that women have played changed with time. These included illustrators, museum collectors and curators, educationalists, researchers and geologists. Originally as wives, sisters or mothers many were assistants to their male relatives. This book looks at all these forgotten women and for the first time historians and scientists together explore the contribution they made to this male-dominated subject.

Author : Minke W. Hazewindus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004409071

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When Women Interfere by Minke W. Hazewindus Pdf

Hazewindus, M.W. When Women Interfere. Studies in the Role of Women in Herodotus' Histories. 2004 In his Histories, Herodotus presents several short stories that seem at odds with the main story and that are therefore sometimes dismissed as mere anecdotes. In this book, Dr. Hazewindus analyzes five of such short stories in order to establish their function in the work as a whole. In these short stories women play important roles. The author shows that these roles exhibit a pattern: women unexpectedly change from passive, silent characters into active, leading people who at times take a bloody revenge when they feel wronged. Women here turn the wheel of history. When the main story is resumed, they disappear again into the background. Nevertheless, the women stories give a unique colour to the Histories, and a proper understanding of them enriches our interpretation of Herodotus' work.

Author : Hallie Murray
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502655608

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The Role of Women in the Gulf War by Hallie Murray Pdf

Though women had been involved in war efforts in every conflict in American history, more women participated in the Gulf War than in any war before it. When the Gulf War began in 1990, women in the military were still not allowed to fight on the front lines, in positions that directly engaged the enemy, but the roles they held still proved challenging and dangerous. This engrossing book tells the stories of the women who fought bravely in the air, on land, at sea, and in enemy camps as prisoners of war, as well as honors those who gave their lives for their country.

Author : Anne
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838263861

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The Role of Women in Making and Building Peace in Liberia by Anne Pdf

In the early 2000s, Liberian women wearing wrap skirts and white T-shirts, shouting: ‘We want peace, no more war’, attracted international attention. After almost fifteen years of civil war, the enduring active, multifaceted, and non-violent campaigning for peace by women’s organisations contributed to the end of the fighting and the signing of a peace agreement between the warring factions. Although it is widely assumed that women’s inclusion in peace processes yields greater attention to women’s issues and needs in the aftermath of a conflict, this is only partly the case in Liberia. Thus, this analysis looks beyond the extraordinary commitment by women in Liberia and deals with the questions to what extent their role in the peace process has contributed to gender-sensitive outcomes in post-conflict Liberian society and why greater gender sensitivity was not achieved. By focusing on manifestations of patterns of masculinity in the public and private spheres, Anne Theobald identifies factors at different levels of analysis within different time frames that elucidate the unexpected outcome. Not only does this provide for a more encompassing understanding of dynamics of gender relations and context-specific variables impeding gender sensitivity in post-conflict settings, but it also helps to refine prevailing theoretical approaches on gender in peacemaking and peacebuilding and to develop more holistic, context-specific, and efficient policy approaches, which can effectively lead to gender-sensitive peace.

Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Women
ISBN : 0431116229

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Changing Role of Women Since 1900 by Louise Spilsbury Pdf

Titles in this series help students to develop the skills they need to research history topics successfully. Each title shows students how to evaluate, organize and use information and primary sources. How to cite sources and plagiarism are also covered.

Author : Marten Stol
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501500213

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Women in the Ancient Near East by Marten Stol Pdf

Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309048392

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The Epidemiological Transition by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population Pdf

This book examines issues concerning how developing countries will have to prepare for demographic and epidemiologic change. Much of the current literature focuses on the prevalence of specific diseases and their economic consequences, but a need exists to consider the consequences of the epidemiological transition: the change in mortality patterns from infectious and parasitic diseases to chronic and degenerative ones. Among the topics covered are the association between the health of children and adults, the strong orientation of many international health organizations toward infant and child health, and how the public and private sectors will need to address and confront the large-scale shifts in disease and demographic characteristics of populations in developing countries.

Author : Veronika Veit
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Altaic languages
ISBN : 3447055375

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The Role of Women in the Altaic World by Veronika Veit Pdf

Aus dem Inhalt (38 Beitrage): V. M. Alpatov, Female Variant of Japanese Z. Anayban, The Women of Tuva in the Context of the Transformation Period in Russia. Birtalan, Ada: A Harmful Female Spirit in the Mongolian Mythology and Folk Belief E. Boikova, Common-Law Marriage in Pre-Revolutionary Mongolia D. Chmielowska, The Image of Woman in Turkish Literature in the Second Half of the 20th Century M. Dobrovits, Maidens, Towers and Beasts M. R. Drompp, From Qatun to Refugee: The Taihe Princess among the Uighurs B. Frey Naf, Compared With the Women the a Menfolk have little Business of their own." - Gender Division of Labour in the History of the Mongols M. Galik, The Twenty-Fourth Nasreddin? Two Women in Wang Meng's Xinjiang Stories J. Giessauf, Mulieres Bellatrices oder Apis Argumentosa? Aspekte der Wahrnehmung mongolischer Frauen in abendlandischen Quellen des Mittelalters M. I. Gol'man, The Mongolian Women in the Russian Archives of the XVIIth Century W. Heissig, Zum Motiv der Hexenverbrennung in der Mongolischen Volksdichtung F. G. Hisamitdinova, The Place and Role of the Bashkir Woman in Family and Society: The Present and the Past.

Author : Ester Boserup
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844073924

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Woman's Role in Economic Development by Ester Boserup Pdf

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Krister Stendahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1203720758

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The Bible and the Role of Women by Krister Stendahl Pdf

Author : Debora L. Spar
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374716219

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Work Mate Marry Love by Debora L. Spar Pdf

A crucial guide to life before—and after—Tinder, IVF, and robots. What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual characteristics to another, or to remain happily perched in between? What will happen to love and sex and romance as our relationships migrate from the real world to the Internet? Can people fall in love with robots? Will they? In short, what will happen to our most basic notions of humanity as we entangle our lives and emotions with the machines we have created? In Work Mate Marry Love, Harvard Business School professor and former Barnard College president Debora L. Spar offers an incisive and provocative account of how technology has transformed our intimate lives in the past, and how it will do so again in the future. Surveying the course of history, she shows how marriage as we understand it resulted from the rise of agriculture, and that the nuclear family emerged with the industrial revolution. In their day, the street light, the car, and later the pill all upended courtship and sex. Now, as we enter an era of artificial intelligence and robots, how will our deepest feelings and attachments evolve? In the past, the prevailing modes of production produced a world dominated by heterosexual, mostly-monogamous, two-parent families. In the future, however, these patterns are almost certain to be reshaped, creating entirely new norms for sex and romance, and for the construction of families and the raising of children. Steering clear of both techno-euphoria and alarmism, Spar offers a bold and inclusive vision of how our lives might be changed for the better.