Gender, Konflikt, Konfliktbearbeitung: zivile und militärische Ansätze, Forderungen und Probleme
Titelübersetzung:Gender, conflict, conflict resolution: civil and military approaches, demands and challenges
Autor/in:
Dittmer, Cordula
Quelle: Universität Marburg, Zentrum für Konfliktforschung; Marburg (CCS Working Papers, 6), 2007. 25 S
Inhalt: "Ziel dieses Working-Papers ist, erstens dafür zu sensibilisieren, wie und wo Gender in Konflikten und Kriegen relevant wird, und zweitens die gegenwärtigen politischen Initiativen zur Konfliktbearbeitung in den nationalen und internationalen Organisationen aus einer gendersensiblen Perspektive kritisch zu reflektieren. Generell ist hier die Tendenz zu beobachten, dass Gender trotz anders lautender Bekundungen in der Praxis immer noch vor allem als 'Frauensache' wahrgenommen und umgesetzt wird. Wie eine feministische oder gendersensible Perspektive aussieht, wird im ersten Abschnitt mit der Darstellung feministischer Forderungen an die Friedens- und Konfliktforschung erläutert. Dieser folgt ein Abschnitt über internationale Initiativen und Resolutionen, die die Integration einer Genderperspektive in die internationale Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik zu fördern versuchen. In Abschnitt vier wird die Bedeutung von Genderidentitäten für die Entstehung und den Verlauf und die Bearbeitung gewaltförmiger Konflikte herausgearbeitet. Im zweiten Teil des Abschnitts werden insbesondere verschiedene Erfahrungen und Positionierungen von Frauen und Männern betrachtet und die Integration gendersensibler Maßnahmen in sowohl der zivilen als auch der militärischen Konfliktbearbeitung genauer analysiert. Während die vorherigen Abschnitte sich vor allem auf internationale Studien und Erkenntnisse beziehen, wird in Abschnitt fünf kurz auf die Umsetzung der Genderperspektive in die deutschen Außen-, Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik eingegangen. Der abschließende Abschnitt fasst die beschriebenen aktuellen Tendenzen kritisch zusammen und weist auf vorhandene Leerstellen und notwendige Forschungsfragen bzw. möglichen Handlungsbedarf hin." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The article offers a macro-sociological view on the evolution of postnational conflicts. It starts with a discussion of the concept of the political, developed by postmodern theorists like Lefort and Laclau, and argues that this concept could help us to understand both the changes within world society and the role new conflicts play within these changes. The concept of the political describes how societies symbolise their identity. The classical concept here is the nation state and the territorial construction of political community. The dismantling of world society's political system is associated with the erosion of this nation state based model of the political. Two consequences could be drawn from here: First, the evolution of world society goes along with a pluralisation of models of the political, e.g. a global, a national and a sub national one. And second, world society today is characterized by conflicts between these concepts of the political." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:internationale Organisation; gender; foreign policy; Sicherheitspolitik; Friedenspolitik; peace policy; Konflikt; violence; gender role; conflict; Federal Republic of Germany; Gewalt; Geschlechtsrolle; Feminismus; international organization; Außenpolitik; gender-specific factors; feminism; internationale Politik; security policy; international politics
SSOAR Kategorie:Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Global gender goals and the construction of equality: conceptual dilemmas and policy practice
Autor/in:
Colclough, Christopher
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 2), 2007. 20 S
Inhalt: The achievement of gender equality in education, and of women's empowerment more generally, have recently become established amongst the highest international priorities for policy action. This paper examines the processes by which they came to be included amongst the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It argues that the revised targets to 2015 are more practicable than earlier goals. However, it shows that rates of progress will need to be improved, and that financial support from the north is still running at less than half the required levels. Goal achievement presupposes some agreed understanding of the meaning of gender equality. The paper reveals important contradictions between the language of analysis and the vocabulary of policy. Finally, it examines some of the instruments available for monitoring progress and building pressure for policy reform. It shows that failures to meet policy undertakings are as evident – and as serious in their implications for the possibility of achieving the MDGs – amongst aid donors as they are amongst developing-country governments themselves.
Schlagwörter:gender; Chancengleichheit; Menschenrechte; development policy; combating poverty; internationale Hilfe; Armutsbekämpfung; equality of rights; human rights; educational opportunity; woman; Entwicklungspolitik; Gleichberechtigung; Bildungschance; social inequality; equal opportunity; soziale Ungleichheit; international aid; education; international aid; gender equality; women's empowerment; Millennium Development Goals
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Geschlechterverhältnisse und Ethos fürsorglicher (Pflege-)Praxis im Wandel: Literaturbericht und Problemskizzen zur Tradition weiblichen Dienstes in der Diakonie
Autor/in:
Kumbruck, Christel
Quelle: Universität Bremen, Forschungszentrum Nachhaltigkeit (artec); Bremen (artec-paper, 146), 2007. 35 S
Schlagwörter:gender relations; Frauenbewegung; caregiving; Betreuung; historische Entwicklung; care; church social work; welfare care; Pflege; woman; Beruf; Geschlechterverhältnis; historical development; occupation; kirchliche Sozialarbeit; Fürsorge; women's movement
SSOAR Kategorie:Sozialwesen, Sozialplanung, Sozialarbeit, Sozialpädagogik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Gendered experiences of teaching in poor rural areas of Ghana
Autor/in:
Casely-Hayford, Leslie
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 8), 2007. 17 S
Inhalt: The low presence of female teachers serving in schools in deprived rural areas is one of the main constraints militating against girls' access and achievement in basic education in Ghana. Studies suggest that low self-esteem among girls is a key factor preventing them from attaining higher levels of education, which can be enhanced through more gender sensitive teaching methods, and the presence of female teachers as role models. This paper investigates the reasons why the majority of Ghanaian teachers avoid –if they can - postings to rural deprived areas and why girls, in particular, are not entering the teaching profession. The study adopts a predominantly qualitative approach, exploring the perceptions of primary stakeholders involved in basic education, including female teachers living in deprived rural areas, girls at upper primary and secondary levels of education and community members. Districts with the lowest percentage of female teachers were selected for the study – where, also, the lowest percentage of girls enter and remain in the basic school system. The paper suggests reasons why Ghanaian girls continue to miss the opportunity to be taught by female role models and why they do not opt to become teachers themselves.
The relative effectiveness of government and private schools in Pakistan: are girls worse off?
Autor/in:
Aslam, Monazza
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 4), 2007. 35 S
Inhalt: Recent evidence from Pakistan points to significant pro-male bias within households in the allocation of education expenditures. This raises two important questions: Is less spent on enrolled girls than boys through differential school-type choice for the two sexes, for example
through a greater likelihood of sending boys to fee-charging private schools? And, if indeed this is the case, are girls thereby condemned to lower quality schooling, on average, than boys? By asking these questions, this paper makes three contributions to the literature. Firstly, this is one of a very few studies in Pakistan to explore the question of the relative effectiveness of public and private schools despite there being an unprecedented expansion of fee-charging private schools in the last two decades. Secondly, unlike existing papers which focus on primary schooling, this study looks at potential learning gaps by school-type for students in their last year of middle school (grade 8), very near their transition to secondary schooling. Thirdly, it exploits unique, purposively-collected data from government and private school students and thus, in estimating achievement production functions, is able to control for a number of variables typically ‘unobserved’ by researchers. The findings reveal that boys are indeed more likely to be sent to private schools than girls within the household, so that differential school-type choice is an important channel of differential treatment against girls. Private schools are also found to be of better quality – they are more effective than government schools in imparting mathematics and literacy skills. Girls lose out vis a vis boys in terms not only of lower within-household educational expenditures but also in terms of the quality of schooling accessed.
Schlagwörter:Bildung; private household; education; Ausgaben; Benachteiligung; Pakistan; girl; expenditures; Mädchen; school system; general education school; Privatschule; Schulwahl; Schulwesen; gender-specific factors; school choice; deprivation; Pakistan; allgemein bildende Schule; private school; Privathaushalt; government/ private schools; achievement; middle-schools; school quality
SSOAR Kategorie:Bildungs- und Erziehungssoziologie, Makroebene des Bildungswesens, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Female autonomy and gender gaps in education in Pakistan
Autor/in:
Aslam, Monazza
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 3), 2007. 42 S
Inhalt: In this study we examine whether gender bias in education depends on the extent of female decision-making power. Household headship is used as a measure of female autonomy, with different types of households theorized to reflect varying degrees of female autonomy. Most female-headed-households in Pakistan are formed either because women are widowed or because husbands migrate. Women in male-headed-households are hypothesized to have least autonomy followed by married women heads whose migrant husbands may retain some decision-making power. Widow heads are hypothesized to have the greatest degree of autonomy among women in different households. The econometric findings suggest that married women heads gender-discriminate as much as male heads but that widow-heads have significantly lower bias against girls in enrolment decisions than male heads. The results also suggest that educated female heads gender differentiate less than both uneducated female heads and than male heads. The evidence suggests that households having better educated women with more independent status discriminate against the education of their daughters less than other households.
Researching gender: explorations into sexuality and HIV/AIDS in African contexts
Autor/in:
Chege, Fatuma N.
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 7), 2007. 15 S
Inhalt: The author demonstrates that collaborating with children using a gender-sensitive life-cycle approach yields social and health dividends. The paper focuses upon young people and children engaged in HIV/AIDS education, not only as consumers of information but also as generators of knowledge pertinent to their needs, aspirations, anxieties, fears, hopes and dreams. This subject-centred approach to education is facilitated by innovative methodologies that allow young people to talk frankly with adults and amongst themselves, to participate in community theatre designed to help different types of people address issues of common interest, and to work with experienced adult researchers in generating relevant data.