Gender equality and children's equality in liberal and conservative discourses: implications toward language and society
Autor/in:
Odrowąż-Coates, Anna
Quelle: Society Register, 3 (2019) 4, S 7-16
Inhalt: This introductory article is intended to open the volume of work prepared by the participants of the 12th UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair International Summer School. The participants presented these papers at the RC25 ISA Interim International Conference in Warsaw, entitled: "Language and Society. Research Advances in Social Sciences" (26-27.09.2019), exploring the concepts of gender equality and children's equality in liberal and conservative discourses and practices invested in language. The papers in this volume primarily use the methodology of discourse analysis and a range of tools and methods within this framework. The purpose is to shed light on how discourses inform preferences, behaviours and representations, towards the positioning of individuals in society, based on their respective gender and their individual status - whether an adult or a child. It is interesting to explore what is expected of the holders of these positions and whether they are able to confront and renegotiate their situation. The authors look into gendered childhood, analysing if differences can be found in so-called conservative and liberal discourses. The gender aspect of childhood and the resistance towards children’s expected positions interlinked to their gender is visible to diverse degrees in this selection of papers. The concept of social positioning due to one's gender is at the heart of this volume. Therefore, this Editorial forms a theoretical backstage for the volume of works included in the special post-conference issue of Society Register.
Schlagwörter:Kindheit; childhood; gender; Kind; child; Erwachsener; adult; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; family unit; ideology; political orientation; sociology of religion; power; social positioning
SSOAR Kategorie:Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Women's Coalitions beyond the Laicism-Islamism Divide in Turkey: Towards an Inclusive Struggle for Gender Equality?
Autor/in:
Çağatay, Selin
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 6 (2018) 4, S 48-58
Inhalt: In the 2010s in Turkey, the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) authoritarian-populist turn accompanied the institutionalization of political Islam. As laicism was discredited and labeled as an imposed-from-above principle of Western/Kemalist modernity, the notion of equality ceased to inform the state’s gender policies. In response to AKP's attempts to redefine gender relations through the notions of complementarity and fıtrat (purpose of creation), women across the political spectrum have mobilized for an understanding of gender equality that transcends the laicism - Islamism divide yet maintains secularity as its constitutive principle. Analyzing three recent attempts of women's coalition-building, this article shows that, first, gender equality activists in the 2010s are renegotiating the border between secularity and piety towards more inclusive understandings of gender equality; and second, that struggles against AKP’s gender politics are fragmented due to different configurations of gender equality and secularity that reflect class and ethnic antagonisms in Turkish society. The article thereby argues for the need to move beyond binary approaches to secularism and religion that have so far dominated the scholarly analysis of women’s activism in both Turkey and the Nordic context.
Les quotas: levier ou frein au déroulement des carrières des femmes? Analyse suite à une enquête préliminaire dans le cas de l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche en France dans le domaine de l'informatique
Autor/in:
Favre, Cécile; Tain, Laurence
Quelle: Annals of the University of Bucharest / Political science series, 2018 (2018) 2, S 37-54
Inhalt: This paper presents the preliminary results of a qualitative survey on the implementation of quotas policies, in the context of higher education and research in France, in the field of computer science specifically. Beyond the theoretical controversy over quotas, it is a question of diving into the heart of an environment that we can describe as specific (and of which we will draw some of the specificities), to collect the experience, the words of women, who are computer scientists in the academic environment, in relation to quotas. The main idea is to question the quotas implementation in order to study in which sense these quotas can indeed lead to more professional equality, but also to study the context in which they can slow down this professional equality.
Are times of Europeanisation times of the gender experts? The window of opportunity in the EU accession process in Croatia
Titelübersetzung:Sind Zeiten der Europäisierung Zeiten von Genderexpert_innen? Das window of opportunity im EU-Beitrittsprozess in Kroatien
Autor/in:
Kersten-Pejanic, Roswitha
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 24 (2015) 2, S 28-40
Inhalt: Die EU setzt Standards in unterschiedlichen Fragen der Sozialpolitik, und damit auch auf dem Gebiet der Gleichstellungspolitik. In der Zeitspanne vor dem Beitritt eines Landes zur EU bedeutet die Übernahme der aktuellen EU Standards eines Politikfeldes zunächst einmal die Erfüllung der von der EU vorgegebenen Beitrittsbedingungen. Entsprechend ist diese Vor-Beitrittsphase eine wichtige Zeit der Anpassung und Transformation in Bezug auf politische Vorgaben und Gesetze, und darüber hinaus von politischen Standards und gesellschaftlichen Diskursen. Somit hat gerade diese Phase des EU-Beitritts das Potential, bedeutenden Wandel von Vorstellungen und Meinungsbildern zu begünstigen. Gerade die Gleichstellungspolitik kann als hochgradig umkämpftes Politikfeld gelten, da hier Veränderungen von Traditionen und Lebensentwürfen angeregt werden, die traditionell als persönliche Entscheidungen und private Überzeugungen gelten. In diesem Artikel geht es um einen Aspekt dieses Zusammenspiels von unterschiedlichen Dynamiken der Vor-Beitrittsphase, indem die Möglichkeiten einer aktiven Teilnahme an diesen Prozessen und der Beeinflussung des stattfindenden Wandels durch nationale Genderakteurinnen im Rahmen ihrer Arbeit zur Herstellung von Gleichstellung in Kroatien erörtert wird. Mit Hilfe von Expertinneninterviews mit kroatischen Genderexpertinnen aus Politik und Zivilgesellschaft wird zum einen der Frage nachgegangen, welche Bedeutung die Europäisierung für die Expertinnen als günstiges Zeitfenster zur Stärkung ihrer Bemühungen hat und zum anderen, welchen Einfluss diese Expertinnen wiederum auf den Grad und die konkreten Realisierungen der Europäisierung der Gleichstellungspolitik hatten.
Inhalt: The EU has established dominant models regarding social matters, one of which is gender equality. In the phase prior to the accession of a given country to the EU, adapting the current dominant model of a political field often constitutes a matter of fulfilling the conditions for actually becoming a member state. Hence, the pre-accession period is a high point regarding a country’s transformation in matters of policies and polities as well as dominant models, discourses and standards, and can be a time of substantial change in belief systems. Gender equality makes up for a notably contested field of social politics, as it is often aimed at changing traditions and orders of social life traditionally perceived as personal choices and private convictions. This paper is concerned with one aspect of the interplay of these pre-accession features, namely, the possibility of agency for domestic gender experts pushing for changes in the gender equality order of Croatia. In search of such agency, expert interviews have been conducted with political gender actors and members of feminist organisations in the Croatian civil society. These interviews provide an insight into the experiences of experts on the Europeanisation of Croatian gender equality standards and show some aspects of their specific role in the realisation of the relevant provisions.
Schlagwörter:Europäisierung; Europeanization; EU-Beitritt; joining the European Union; Kroatien; Croatia; Gender; gender; europäische Sozialpolitik; European social policy; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Gleichstellungspolitik; equal opportunity policy; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; Transformation; transformation; Frauenbewegung; women's movement; Feminismus; feminism; Empowerment; empowerment; postsozialistisches Land; post-socialist country
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Europapolitik
Still a perfect model? The gender impact of vocational training in Germany
Autor/in:
Haasler, Simone
Quelle: Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 67 (2015) 1, S 78-92
Inhalt: Reconstructing the parallel structure of ‘dual’ and ‘school-based’ vocational routes reveals the close connection between the German vocational training system and the segmentation of the labour market by gender. The example of jobs in childcare and pre-primary education shows that the legacy of semi-professionalism in these occupations is not just rooted in the nature of training and working conditions, but complexly interlinks with the prevalence of the male breadwinner model sustained by social policy regulations and the German taxation system. In France, by contrast, the central state takes responsibility for the provision of childcare from zero to six years of age to support female labour force participation and dual-earner couples. This has also fostered professionalisation in the respective occupations. Whilst this may not necessarily induce a degendering process at the level of horizontal segregation of vocational qualifications, it facilitates gender equality in terms of vertical mobility and the professional status of women.
Schlagwörter:Federal Republic of Germany; Berufsbildung; vocational education; Bildungswesen; education system; Arbeitsmarktsegmentation; labor market segmentation; Professionalisierung; professionalization; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; Segregation; segregation; duales System; dual system; soziale Dienste; social services; Arbeitskräftebedarf; manpower requirements; Pflegedienst; nursing services; Sozialpolitik; social policy; Wohlfahrtsstaat; welfare state; Arbeitsmarkt; labor market; gender-specific factors; Familienpolitik; family policy; Kinderbetreuung; child care; Vorschule; preschool school; Arbeitsbedingungen; working conditions; Qualifikationsstruktur; structure of qualification; gender; soziale Konstruktion; social construction; labour market segmentation; school-based VET; social services; tertiarisation; staff shortages
SSOAR Kategorie:Bildungswesen quartärer Bereich, Berufsbildung, Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
How gender conscious pedagogy in higher education can stimulate actions of social justice in society
Autor/in:
Witt, Ann-Katrin; Cuesta, Marta
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 2 (2014) 1, S 12-23
Inhalt: In order to reflect about methods that can generate social justice and democratization, this article emphasises on practical implementations, connected to gender conscious pedagogy. Gender conscious pedagogy aims at overcoming the myth of objectivity, and by questioning through teaching what is considered as common sense and "normal". This entails acting and reflecting on breakthroughs, for example about an understanding of how gender codes influence everyday instances as well as working life. The collected data is based on narratives from alumni students who were asked to memorise and reflect on their gender studies and particularly about how useful this type of knowledge is in connection with everyday and working life - as politician, lecturer, IT-manager, doctoral student etc. The aim of this article is to focus on how teachers support students to be gender confident and as a consequence of that, becoming gender actors outside the university, in working life. Some central questions are: how are gender issues represented and integrated in the different areas of studies; what can teachers do in order to generate equality in the classroom; in what way and how are students given possibilities of understanding, internalizing and discussing gender issues.
Schlagwörter:Bildung; gender studies; gender; pedagogics; Gleichstellung; education; Arbeitswelt; Demokratie; Gender; social justice; democracy; Geschlechterforschung; Pädagogik; soziale Gerechtigkeit; affirmative action; world of work
SSOAR Kategorie:Makroebene des Bildungswesens, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Männerpolitik unter der schwarz-gelben Regierung: auf dem Weg zu einer geschlechtergerechten Gesellschaft?
Titelübersetzung:Policy for men under the CDU-FDP government: on the road to a gender-equitable society?
Autor/in:
Diewald, Irmgard
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 22 (2013) 1, S 129-133
Inhalt: Die Verfasserin argumentiert, dass die Männerpolitik der Bundesregierung einerseits von der Vereinnahmung feministischer Forderungen und Argumentationsweisen und andererseits von der Abgrenzung zu diesen lebt. Durch biologisierte Identitätsvorstellungen trägt eine solche Männerpolitik zur Aufrechterhaltung von Heteronormativität und damit zur Sicherung und Stabilisierung hierarchisierter vergeschlechtlichter Machtstrukturen bei und nicht zu mehr Geschlechtergerechtigkeit. Um diese zu erreichen, sollte eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Männlichkeit (und Weiblichkeit) stattfinden und eine stärkere Verknüpfung mit feministischer Theorie und Praxis erfolgen. In diesem Sinne setzt sich die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung schon seit einigen Jahren kritisch mit Männerpolitik auseinander und bietet mit dem Konzept der Geschlechterdemokratie eine bedenkenswerte politische Alternative. Es sollte nicht nur, wie am Ende der Konferenz zur Männerpolitik vorgeschlagen, der Titel und somit das Programm des Ministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend um Männer erweitert werden, sondern eine wirkliche Alternative zu herrschenden Geschlechterverhältnissen eröffnet werden. (ICB2)
Schlagwörter:Federal Republic of Germany; Männerforschung; ; Männlichkeit; masculinity; gender; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Regierung; government; Gerechtigkeit; justice; Diskurs; discourse; Feminismus; feminism; Gleichberechtigung; equality of rights; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; Politik; politics; politische Agenda; political agenda
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur