Partnered women's contribution to household labor income: Persistent inequalities among couples and their determinants
Autor/in:
Dieckhoff, Martina; Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura
Quelle: Social Science Research, (2019) 85
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Inhalt: This paper explores earnings inequalities within dual-earner couples in East and West Germany drawing on household-level panel data from 1992 to 2016. It has three aims: (1) to analyze how the partner pay gap (the pay gap between partners within one household) has developed over time, given institutional change, and whether the extent of inequality and temporal development vary between East and West Germany; (2) to explore variation in the partner pay gap by male partners' absolute earnings; and (3) to investigate the micro-level determinants of earnings inequalities within couples and determine whether their relevance varies between East and West Germany as well as by male partners’ absolute earnings. We find women earn substantially less than their partners, and our regression results find no indication of a declining partner pay gap. Besides substantial variation between East and West Germany, our results also reveal important group-specific variation in the extent of the partner pay gap as well as in its determinants.
Schlagwörter:Dual Career Couple; alte Bundesländer; Erwerbsbeteiligung; old federal states; Haushaltseinkommen; Einkommensunterschied; partnership; Federal Republic of Germany; household income; woman; difference in income; neue Bundesländer; Partnerschaft; labor force participation; gender-specific factors; New Federal States; dual career couple; Ungleichheit; inequality; gender inequality; institutional change; partner pay gap; time trends; German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (1992-2016)
SSOAR Kategorie:Arbeitsmarktforschung, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Empowering women through digital skills in Argentina: a tale of two stories
Titelübersetzung:Stärkung von Frauen durch digitale Kompetenzen in Argentinien: eine Erzählung aus zwei Perspektiven
Autor/in:
Martinez Demarco, Solange
Quelle: TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis / Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, 28 (2019) 2, S 23-28
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Inhalt: "Promoting gender equality is smart development policy," says the World Bank. In line with this narrative, many companies have promoted gender equality in terms of bridging the gender digital divide. In Argentina, a growing number of grassroots initiatives sponsored by corporations have emerged and provide training in digital and soft skills as well as entrepreneurship and leadership opportunities. Without denying the efforts, importance, and value of the work of these groups, this paper studies some of the contradictions inherent to the increasing power that corporations have in the discourse and practice of reducing the gender digital gap. My argument is that these projects contribute to reinforcing current economic, social, and geographical divides, to discriminating against gender non-conforming people, and to further limiting government intervention in this area.
Schlagwörter:Argentinien; Argentina; Digitale Spaltung; digital divide; gender-specific factors; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; Empowerment; empowerment; woman; Entwicklungspolitik; development policy; Lateinamerika; Latin America; smart economics
SSOAR Kategorie:Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Advancing Women's Political Rights in Africa: The Promise and Potential of ACDEG
Titelübersetzung:Förderung politischer Rechte von Frauen in Afrika: Das Versprechen und das Potenzial der ACDEG
Autor/in:
Abdulmelik, Nebila; Belay, Tsion
Quelle: Africa Spectrum, 54 (2019) 2, S 147-161
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Inhalt: This paper places women at the centre of analysis, examining the potential and promise of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) in the advancement of women’s political rights. This is a highly under-researched topic, necessitating a mapping of the current political landscape for women and an understanding of how ACDEG addresses these challenges as well as provides opportunities for advancing women's political participation. This paper argues that ACDEG provides a good basis and framework to operate from for member states - some of whom already have suitable policies, and more importantly suitable practices, in place that emerge from a range of normative frameworks, including the Maputo Protocol. ACDEG complements these frameworks and makes a further case for women's full and meaningful participation in public and private life by obligating states to take concrete steps to guarantee women's political rights. Considering this, the paper identifies prospects for women's rights activists and organisations to invoke ACDEG and monitor its implementation in the move towards the realisation of African women's political rights.
Schlagwörter:Afrika; Africa; woman; Menschenrechte; human rights; politische Partizipation; political participation; ACDEG; women's rights; political rights
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Recht
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Building a new life and (re)making a family: Young Syrian refugee women in the Netherlands navigating between family and career
Titelübersetzung:Ein neues Leben beginnen und eine Familie (wieder)herstellen: Wie junge geflüchtete Frauen aus Syrien in den Niederlanden zwischen Familie und Beruf navigieren
Autor/in:
Ruis, Ada
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 31 (2019) 3, S 287-302
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Inhalt: This article presents results of a qualitative analysis based on biographic narratives of three young, well-
educated women from Syria. They arrived in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2017 in the context of
family reunion. The central question is how young Syrian women navigate between two major projects
that ask for their agency, being family and work. It is argued that both occupational career development
and the building of a family are ‘agentic projects’ that aim to contribute to the establishment of a new life
and to regain continuity. The analyses demonstrate that both projects are closely intertwined. Agency
emerges as highly relational and intersecting with the women’s position in the life course, timing of life
events, ability to adapt career goals to the new situation, and impact of social contexts on family rela-
tions.
Schlagwörter:woman; Flüchtling; refugee; Syrien; Syria; Biographie; biography; Familienzusammenführung; family reunion; Mutterschaft; motherhood; Familie-Beruf; work-family balance; Asylpolitik; asylum policy; Integration; integration; Niederlande; Netherlands; refugee family resettlement; life course perspective; agency; displacement and gender; young refugee mothers; biographic narratives
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht - der unvollendete Weg zu geschlechtergerechter Repräsentation: eine Einleitung
Titelübersetzung:100 Years of Women's Suffrage - the Unfinished Mission of Equal Representation: Introduction
Autor/in:
Abels, Gabriele; Ahrens, Petra; Blome, Agnes
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 27 (2018) 2, S 9-25
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Inhalt: Vor 100 Jahren erhielten Frauen in Deutschland das aktive und passive Wahlrecht und wurden damit de jure zu vollwertigen Staatsbürgerinnen. Das war das Ergebnis eines langen Kampfes. Gleichwohl ist de facto ihre politische Gleichheit bis heute nicht voll verwirklicht. Weder auf nationaler noch auf regionaler Ebene sind kontinuierlich mehr als 30% der parlamentarischen Abgeordneten weiblich. Die Implikationen für die substantielle und symbolische Repräsentation von Frauen werden in dem Beitrag diskutiert.
Schlagwörter:woman; Wahlrecht; suffrage; Deutsches Reich; German Reich; Federal Republic of Germany; Gleichheit; equality; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; Parlament; parliament; Frauenanteil; proportion of women; Repräsentation; representation; Politikerin;
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Muslimische Politikerinnen in Deutschland: Erfolgsmuster und Hindernisse politischer Repräsentation
Titelübersetzung:Political underrepresentation of Muslim women in Germany: an intersectional perspective on political recruitment
Autor/in:
Jenichen, Anne
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 27 (2018) 2, S 70-82
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Inhalt: Muslimische Frauen sind in der deutschen Politik unterrepräsentiert. Aus einer intersektionalen Perspektive und auf Grundlage qualitativer Interviews mit muslimischen Politikerinnen identifiziert der Artikel Hindernisse und förderliche Faktoren für die politische Repräsentation muslimischer Frauen in Deutschland. Die Analyse macht deutlich, dass für die Unterrepräsentation eine Kombination aus eingeschränktem Kandidatinnenpool und noch unzureichenden Bemühungen der Parteien verantwortlich ist. Insgesamt ähneln die Hindernisse und Erfolgsfaktoren denen, die bereits für Politikerinnen mit Migrationshintergrund herausgearbeitet wurden. Gleichzeitig wird jedoch deutlich, dass Religion als Differenzkategorie quer zu Migrationshintergrund liegt. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass Religion gesondert von Migrationshintergrund zu betrachten ist, wenn Hindernisse, insbesondere für sichtbare Minderheiten, in der Politik genauer erfasst werden sollen.
Schlagwörter:woman; Muslim; Muslim; Politikerin; ; Bundestag; Bundestag; Repräsentation; representation; religiöse Faktoren; religious factors; Diskriminierung; discrimination; Migrationshintergrund; migration background; Stereotyp; stereotype; Federal Republic of Germany
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The Idea of Home in a World of Circulation: Steam, Women and Migration through Bhojpuri Folksongs
Titelübersetzung:Die Heimatvorstellung in einer Welt der Zirkulation: Dampfmotoren, Frauen und Migration im Lichte der Bhojpuri-Volkslieder
Autor/in:
Sinha, Nitin
Quelle: International Review of Social History, 63 (2018) 2, S 203-237
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Inhalt: The historical juncture of the 1840s to 1860s witnessed three developments: first, the introduction of the new means of communication (steamships and railways); second, new industrial and plantation investments in and outside of India, creating demand for labour; and third, the expansion of a print culture that went beyond the urban elite domain to reflect the world of small towns and villages. In this constellation of social, economic, and technological changes, this article looks at the idea of home, construction of womanhood and the interlaced lifecycles of migrant men and non-migrant women in a period of Indian history marked by “circulation”. Moving away from the predominant focus on migrant men, the article attempts to recreate the social world of non-migrant women left behind in the villages of northern and eastern India. While engaging with the framework of circulation, the article calls for it to be redesigned to allow histories of mobility and immobility, male and female and villages and cities to appear in the same analytical field. Although migration has been reasonably well explored, the issue of marriage is inadequately addressed in South Asian migration studies. “Separated conjugality” is one aspect of this, and the displacement of young girls from their natal home to in-laws’ is another. Through the use of Bhojpuri folksongs, the article brings together migration and marriage as two important social events to understand the different but interlaced lifecycles of gendered (im)mobilities.
Schlagwörter:Indien; India; 19. Jahrhundert; nineteenth century; 20. Jahrhundert; twentieth century; ökonomischer Wandel; economic change; technischer Wandel; technological change; sozialer Wandel; social change; Migration; migration; gender-specific factors; Heimat; native country; Weiblichkeit; femininity; Ehe; marriage; soziale Beziehungen; social relations; Tradition; tradition; Gender; gender; woman; Dorf; village; Arbeitsmigration; labor migration; Mobilität; mobility; Lied; song; Südasien; South Asia; Circulation; Bhojpuri Folksongs
SSOAR Kategorie:Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung, Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The Reluctant Feminist: Angela Merkel and the Modernization of Gender Politics in Germany
Titelübersetzung:Feministin wider Willen? Angela Merkel und Geschlechtergleichheit in Deutschland
Autor/in:
Mushaben, Joyce Marie
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 27 (2018) 2, S 83-95
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Inhalt: Academic studies regarding the impact of various forms of gender representation focus largely on quantitative evidence that women in power can make a difference, downplaying qualitative case studies that can establish causal links between women's participation in government and better policies for women. Analyzing policy changes initiated by Germany’s first female Chancellor since 2005, the paper argues that despite her CDU-affiliation, Angela Merkel has contributed more to gender equality in Germany than all previous chancellors, even though she refuses to label herself a feminist. The author explores three factors shaping Merkel's reluctance to embrace the (western dominated) feminist label, e.g., her socialization under a diametrically opposed GDR gender regime, her preference for data-driven policy learning, her aversion towards “ideological” framing, coupled with a tendency to pursue mixed motives, respectively. The paper concludes with recent examples geared towards leveling the global gender playing-field, attesting to her willingness to embrace transformational representation.
Schlagwörter:woman; Politikerin; ; politische Entscheidung; political decision; Entscheidungsfindung; decision making; Repräsentation; representation; Intersektionalität; intersectionality; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; Merkel, A.; Merkel, A.; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Feminismus; feminism; Federal Republic of Germany
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Gender and Politics in Buenos Aires
Autor/in:
Szwarcberg, Mariela
Quelle: Journal of Politics in Latin America, 10 (2018) 3, S 3-27
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Inhalt: This paper examines the persistent gender gap in electoral politics at the local level in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I argue that the combination of the division of political work and existing social norms regarding the separation of domestic chores contributes to women’s political underrepresentation at the local level. Studying everyday politics in Buenos Aires, a clear division of political work between men and women was found. Only women were in charge of finding solutions to issues of domestic abuse and violence, and of taking care of children, the pregnant, and senior citizens. Using information from Buenos Aires municipalities, I document the gender gap in elected legislative and executive offices at the local level – as well as in non-elected offices within municipal cabinets. It was also found that the types of political work assigned to female activists and candidates reinforce existing stereotypes of women as mothers of the poor.
Schlagwörter:Argentinien; Argentina; Kommunalpolitik; local politics; politische Partizipation; political participation; woman; Repräsentation; representation; Politikerin; null; Stereotyp; stereotype; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Südamerika; South America
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Afrin, Frauenrevolution und die Jineolojî
Autor/in:
Exo, Mechthild
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 27 (2018) 2, S 163-170
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Schlagwörter:Syrien; Syria; Kurdistan; Kurdistan; Frauenbewegung; women's movement; Demokratisierung; democratization; sozialer Wandel; social change; Feminismus; feminism; woman; Menschenrechte; human rights; Frauenorganisation; women's organization; arabische Länder; Arab countries; Nahost; Middle East
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz