Die französische Familienpolitik: ein Erfolgsmodell unter Reformdruck
Titelübersetzung:French family policy: a successful model facing new challenges
Autor/in:
Salles, Anne
Quelle: Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.; Berlin (DGAP-Analyse Frankreich, 6), 2009. 15 S
Inhalt: "Häufig wird Frankreich in deutschen familienpolitischen Debatten auf Grund der hohen Geburtenrate und der hohen Erwerbstätigenquote bei Frauen als Vorbild angeführt. Zentrale Ziele der französischen Familienpolitik sind die Ermöglichung einer freien Wahl zwischen familiärer und außerhäuslicher Kinderbetreuung, die Förderung der Chancengleichheit aller Kinder sowie der Gleichstellung von Männern und Frauen. Ein vielfältiges Betreuungsangebot und unterschiedliche Formen finanzieller Unterstützung für Familien sollen diese Ziele fördern. Doch der Mangel an Betreuungsplätzen sowie widersprüchliche Fördermaßnahmen zur Verbesserung der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie stellen die Umsetzung der familienpolitischen Ziele in Frage. Angekündigte familienpolitische Reformen, beispielsweise eine Kürzung des Erziehungsurlaubs, sind umstritten. Wie andere Maßnahmen zeigt sich auch eine Initiative zur Schaffung neuer Betreuungsplätze dem Zwang zur Kostenminimierung unterworfen und birgt damit das Risiko einer sinkenden Qualität des Betreuungsangebots." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "France is frequently being instanced in German debates on the subject of family policy because of the high birth rate and the high rate of employed women. Fundamental aims of the French family policy consist in providing a free choice between child care within the family and external child care, the promotion of equal opportunity for all children as well as the equality of men and women. A wide variety of service offers and diverse forms of financial support for families
are supposed to boost these goals. The lack of day nursery facilities as well as contradictory measures to improve the compatibility of family and work question the achievement of the goals with regard to family policy. Announced reforms in terms of family policy, for example the reduction of
parental leave, are disputed. Among other measures, an initiative to provide more day nursery facilities is exposed to the restraint of cost minimization and thus poses the risk of decreasing quality of service offers." (author's abstract)
Inhalt: What does gender equality mean for young men and women in poor communities across different countries? The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015. But can such global agendas address national and local gender inequalities and will they empower women through education? New research on gender education makes an important contribution to this global debate. Shailaja Fennell and Madeleine Arnot have brought together leading international scholars and a new generation of researchers working within development studies, gender studies and education. The result is a thought-provoking book that offers an opportunity to engage critically with existing and emergent conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches.
Schlagwörter:Bildung; education; Chancengleichheit; Armut; combating poverty; Armutsbekämpfung; equality of rights; educational opportunity; Mann; woman; political participation; Gleichberechtigung; Bildungschance; equal opportunity; gender-specific factors; man; poverty; politische Partizipation; gender education and equality; Millennium Development Goals
SSOAR Kategorie:Makroebene des Bildungswesens, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Globalising the school curriculum: gender, EFA and global citizenship education
Autor/in:
Marshall, Harriet; Arnot, Madeleine
Quelle: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP); Cambridge (RECOUP Working Papers, 17), 2008. 17 S
Inhalt: Whilst the link between access, quality of schooling and gender equality in promotion Education for All is vital, the problematic nature of this agenda for the curriculum in developing countries is not sufficiently recognized. Previous sociological research indicates the contradictions between the social reproductive elements and the egalitarian potential of a 'globalised curriculum' especially in the complex postcolonial scenario of developing economies. A close reading of the EFA Global Monitoring Reports highlights rights within and through the curriculum, representing the 'curriculum as opportunity', 'curriculum as reform' and 'curriculum as a democratic tool'. However, gender equality represents a deeper challenge to dominant knowledge forms than that represented by a gender fair/ friendly curriculum or a gender neutral curriculum. Global citizenship education controversially brings female subordination and gender power into the curriculum but its potential in relation to the goals of EFA is not proven. Localized historical and socio-cultural investigations are needed into the gendering of national school knowledge in non-Western environments, and its relationship to material and socio-cultural conditions of gender relations. Such investigations could account for different types of gender performances in school, and offer a transformative politics of recognition as well as redistribution.
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
Ein Balanceakt? Dual Career Couples in den Berufsfeldern der Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften
Titelübersetzung:A balancing act? Dual career couples in the occupational fields of natural and engineering sciences
Autor/in:
Könekamp, Bärbel; Haffner, Yvonne
Quelle: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS); Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert; Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie "Soziale Ungleichheit - kulturelle Unterschiede"; Frankfurt am Main, 2006. S 4711-4712
Schlagwörter:engineer; Federal Republic of Germany; foreign countries; Ehepartner; Gleichberechtigung; spouse; equal opportunity; beruflicher Aufstieg; Ingenieur; Ausland; career advancement; Chancengleichheit; employer; Ehepaar; equality of rights; Karriere; woman; Beruf; married couple; Akademiker; natural sciences; Naturwissenschaft; Arbeitgeber; occupation; career; academic
SSOAR Kategorie:Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie