A defence of gender-based affirmative action grounded on a comparison of the United States and of the European Union models
Autor/in:
Crusmac, Oana
Quelle: Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 19 (2019) 1, S 35-56
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Inhalt: This article presents a defence of gender-based affirmative action programmes against its critiques. It starts from an overview of the history and main criticisms addressing affirmative action programmes, and then proposes several arguments against these criticisms. Several rationales are to be found at the core of this article: first, women still face discrimination in regard to access to education and employment. This position relies on the statistical data referring to both the U.S. and the E.U. Second, gender-based affirmative action should be treated differently than race-based affirmative action since women's discrimination on the labour market stems mainly from traditional gender norms largely exerted within the family and exercised through state's family policies (e.g. childcare policies). Third, despite the fact that the article defends gender-based affirmative action against the main critiques, it also argues that this measure alone is an inefficient method to tackle gender inequality. The article concludes that gender-based affirmative action programmes are not effective methods to tackle gender inequality because they address only one part of the problem, namely gender inequality encountered in the public sphere (education and employment), while completely ignoring family and caring responsibilities.
Schlagwörter:Chancengleichheit; equal opportunity; Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Gender Mainstreaming; gender mainstreaming; Quote; quota; gender
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Antifeminismus in Deutschland: Entwicklungen in verschiedenen Praxisfeldern
Autor/in:
Henninger, Annette
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 28 (2019) 1, S 138-141
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Schlagwörter:Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Gleichstellungspolitik; equal opportunity policy; Feminismus; feminism; Kritik; criticism; Diskurs; discourse; Federal Republic of Germany
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Rezension: Andrea Löther, Birgit Riegraf (Hrsg.), 2017: Gleichstellungspolitik und Geschlechterforschung. Veränderte Governance und Geschlechterarrangements in der Wissenschaft
Autor/in:
Vollmer, Lina
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 10 (2018) 2, S 152-154
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Rezensiertes Werk:Löther, Andrea; Riegraf, Birgit (Hrsg.): Gleichstellungspolitik und Geschlechterforschung: veränderte Governance und Geschlechterarrangements in der Wissenschaft. CEWS-Beiträge Frauen in Wissenschaft und Forschung, Bd. 8. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2017. 978-3-8474-2055-2
Schlagwörter:Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Gleichstellungspolitik; equal opportunity policy; Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; science
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Rezension
Gender and the EU's Support for Security Sector Reform in Fragile Contexts
Autor/in:
Ansorg, Nadine; Haastrup, Toni
Quelle: JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, 56 (2018) 5, S 1127–1143
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Inhalt: How does the European Union (EU) include 'gender' within its support to security sector reform (SSR) programmes? The EU has committed to include gender perspectives by implementing the Women, Peace and Security agenda (WPS) within its foreign security practices. While researchers and practitioners recognise the importance of integrating gender issues into SSR operational effectiveness, there is limited knowledge about how this functions within the EU's security architecture. This article uses Feminist Institutionalism (FI) to understand the process of gender mainstreaming within the EU's support to SSR programmes. It does this by using two crucial theory‐testing cases of SSR programmes - Ukraine and Afghanistan. It finds that the EU's ability to promote gender inclusive approaches to SSR is limited by the structure of the EU's own assumptions and capabilities, and institutional constraints in third countries. At the same time, the cases underscore the importance of individuals as agents of change.
Schlagwörter:EU; EU; Sicherheitssektor; security sector; Reform; reform; Gender; gender; Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; Sicherheitspolitik; security policy; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Feminismus; feminism; Institutionalisierung; institutionalization; Sicherheit; security; Friedenssicherung; peacekeeping; Ukraine; Ukraine; Afghanistan; Afghanistan
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Equality Governance via Policy Analysis? The Implementation of Gender Impact Assessment in the European Union and Gender-based Analysis in Canada
Autor/in:
Sauer, Arn T.
Quelle: Bielefeld (Edition Politik, 68), 2018. 568 S
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Inhalt: Gender impact assessment has been both celebrated as a beacon of hope for the cause of gender equality and criticised as being ineffectual. More than 20 years of gender mainstreaming have demonstrated that equality governance with and through impact assessment is an intersectional and still evolving process. Arn T. Sauer's study examines the instruments of gendered policy analysis and the conditions under which they are being used by the Canadian federal government and the European Commission. Interviews with experts from public administration and instrument designers as well as document analyses reveal benefits and challenges and show that the success of equality governance depends upon whether knowledge about gendered policy and appropriate administrative practices are embedded, embodied and entrenched in public administration.
Schlagwörter:Kanada; Canada; EU; EU; Gender Mainstreaming; gender mainstreaming; Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; gender-specific factors; Governance; governance; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Accountability; Administration; Gender; Gender Equality; Gender Mainstreaming; Gender Studies; Governance; Intersectionality; Law; Policy; Policy Analysis; Political Science; Politics
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, spezielle Ressortpolitik
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Doing Space while Doing Gender - Vernetzungen von Raum und Geschlecht in Forschung und Politik
Herausgeber/in:
Gottschalk, Aenne; Kersten, Susanne; Krämer, Felix
Quelle: Bielefeld (Dynamiken von Raum und Geschlecht, 4), 2018. 321 S
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Inhalt: This volume, which can also be used as a manual due to the linking of its contents, shows how dynamics of space and gender also affect contemporary political issues.
Schlagwörter:Doing Gender; doing gender; Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; Kulturwissenschaft; cultural studies; gender; Raum; zone; Heterosexualität; heterosexuality; Normativität; normativity; Macht; power; Intersektionalität; intersectionality; Körper; body; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Weiblichkeit; femininity; Sexismus; sexism; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations; sozialer Raum; social space; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Cultural Theory; Gender Studies; Kulturtheorie
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Subjektivierung als Krisenbearbeitung: feministische und neogramscianische Perspektiven auf die gegenwärtige europäische Krisenpolitik
Titelübersetzung:Subjectivization as crisis management: feminist and neo-Gramscian perspectives of current European crisis policy
Autor/in:
Hajek, Katharina; Opratko, Benjamin
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 22 (2013) 1, S 44-56
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Inhalt: "Der Beitrag diskutiert aktuelle Analysen und Zeitdiagnosen zur gegenwärtigen 'multiplen Krise' aus den Perspektiven feministischer und neogramscianischer Internationaler Politischer Ökonomie (IPÖ). Die Autoren argumentieren für eine konzeptionelle Verknüpfung dieser Forschungsansätze, um die Rolle vergeschlechtlichter Subjektivierungsweisen in gegenwärtig dominanten Krisenbearbeitungsstrategien zu untersuchen. Anhand der Krisenpolitik der 'Troika' in Griechenland zeigen die Verfasser, wie insbesondere die - meist implizit gehaltene - Neuverteilung von Zuständigkeiten für gesellschaftlich notwendige Care- und Reproduktionstätigkeiten als Verlagerung der Krisenbearbeitung in die vergeschlechtlichten Subjekte im Sinne einer 'Subjektivierung als Krisenbearbeitung' verstanden werden kann." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The article discusses current analyses and assessments of the contemporary 'multiple crisis' from the perspectives of feminist and neo-Gramscian International Political Economy (IPE). The authors argue for a conceptual linkage of these approaches in order to analyze the role of gendered subjectivation in currently dominant forms of crisis management. The Troika's policies in Greece are presented as an example for how the - implicitly organized - redistribution of responsibilities for socially necessary care- and reproduction work can be understood as 'subjectivation as crisis management': the displacement of crisis management into the gendered subjects themselves." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:gender studies; gender; Krise; gender policy; responsibility allocation; Gramsci, A.; Krisenbewältigung; European social model; Geschlechterpolitik; Kompetenzverteilung; Geschlechterforschung; Feminismus; crisis; Gramsci, A.; Europäisches Sozialmodell; Europapolitik; gender-specific factors; European Policy; Subjekt; feminism; crisis management (psych.); subject
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Wirtschaftspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Rezension: Markus Theunert (Hrsg.), 2012: Männerpolitik. Was Jungen, Männer und Väter stark macht
Autor/in:
Budde, Jürgen
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 5 (2013) 3, S 158-160
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Schlagwörter:Junge; boy; Mann; man; Vater; father; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Legitimität; legitimacy; Männlichkeit; masculinity; Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; Federal Republic of Germany; Österreich; Austria; Schweiz; Switzerland
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Rezension
Rezension: Angela McRobbie, 2010: Top Girls. Feminismus und der Aufstieg des neoliberalen
Geschlechterregimes
Autor/in:
Dölling, Irene
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 3 (2011) 1, S 150-152
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Schlagwörter:Feminismus; feminism; Ambivalenz; ambivalence; gender; Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Neoliberalismus; neoliberalism; Solidarität; solidarity; sozialer Aufstieg; social advancement; Diskurs; discourse; Emanzipation; emancipation; Freiheit; freedom; Kultur; culture
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Wissenssoziologie
Dokumenttyp:Rezension
Rezension: Birgit Riegraf, Lydia Plöger (Hrsg.), 2009: Gefühlte Nähe - faktische Distanz. Geschlecht zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik. Perspektiven der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung auf die "Wissensgesellschaft"
Autor/in:
Kirschbaum, Almut
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 1 (2009) 2, S 148-151
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Schlagwörter:gender; Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Frauenforschung; women's studies; Gleichstellungspolitik; equal opportunity policy
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Rezension