The Economics of Gender Equality in the Labour Market : Policies in Turkey and other Emerging Economies
Herausgeber/in:
Yenilmez, Meltem İnce; Kişla, Gül Ş. Huyugüzel
Quelle: Routledge, 2022.
Inhalt: This book evaluates the global labour market in the context of gender equality, and the associated policies and regulations, particularly in developing markets, to recommend measures for encouraging gender equality. It exposes the barriers that women employees encounter as well as some of the societal and workplace policies they, specifically, are subject to. Important themes within this topic include participation rates, the looming gap in hourly pay, availability of part-time and full-time positions, value, and social status associated with jobs held by men and women.
The book examines how global gender policy objectives, such as gender equality in careers, gender balance in decision-making, and gender dimensions in research, can be incorporated into policy frameworks. The book analyzes the gendered nature of assumptions, processes and theories. The juxtaposition between family and work, tradition and modernity, and dependency and autonomy, clearly still seems to be misunderstood. Therefore, the book asks whether work improves women’s positions in society and/or changes their roles in their families. The authors explore and uncover the connections among employment, entrepreneurship, migration economies, and gender global labour markets and provide helpful solutions to the perceptions surrounding women’s status, risks, and inequality that limit their economic participation.
This insightful read provides comprehensive details on a variety of themes and encourages further research on policies that are key to promoting gender equality. The book will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers of labour and feminist economics, the economics of gender, women’s studies and sociology.
Schlagwörter:Arbeitsmarkt; gender equality; Geschlechtergerechtigkeit; labor market; labour market; Türkei; Turkey
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and Development. Voices from Feminist Political Ecology
Herausgeber/in:
P. Resurrección, Bernadette; Elmhirst, Rebecca
Quelle: Routledge, 2022.
Inhalt: This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of ‘gender experts’ working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of sustainable development. Developed through a series of conversations convened by the book’s editors with leading practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this text explores the ways gender professionals – specialists and experts, researchers, orga2nizational focal points – deal with personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender analysis is brought into fields defined as largely techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science, technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways for an equitable future.”
Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World
Herausgeber/in:
O'Connor, Pat; White, Kate
Quelle: Cham: Springer International Publishing; Imprint Palgrave Macmillan (Springer eBook Collection), 2021, 1.0. 226 S
Inhalt: This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding efforts and attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these harmful discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women’s deceptively ‘small victories’ in the academy
The volume is a must-read for anyone interested in fairness and justice around gender". Professor Patricia Yancey Martin, Florida State University, USA
This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these misleading discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women’s deceptively ‘small victories’ in the academy.
Pat O’Connor is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Visiting Professor at the Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland. She is a sociologist with a focus on gender equality in higher education institutions: particularly leadership, excellence, micropolitics, gender-based violence, equality related interventions and women’s academic careers. Kate White is Adjunct Associate Professor at Federation University Australia and Director of the Women in Higher Education Management Network. Her research focuses on gender equality and leadership in higher education, women’s academic careers and women in science.
‘You must aim high’ - ‘No, I never felt like a woman’: women and men making sense of non-standard trajectories into higher education
Autor/in:
González Ramos, Ana M.; Räthzel, Nora
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10 (2018) 1, 17 S
Inhalt: It is no secret that the ‘glass ceiling’ preventing women advancing to leadership positions exists in academia as well. Spain is no exception. Gender relations are usually investigated independently of other power relations like class and ethnicity. In our sample (80 men and women in different academic institutions across Spain) we found that not only women but also men from working class backgrounds have difficulties making successful academic careers. Therefore, we use an intersectional approach to investigate the relationship between gender and class. Comparing two life-histories, we explore what strategies individuals employ to overcome the barriers with which they are confronted. We present the stories of a woman with a middle class but non-academic background and of a man with a working-class background. Their strategies can be understood as the result of specific individual trajectories under specific societal conditions, but they also illustrate the barriers and possibilities men and women with non-standard backgrounds encounter in academia. Analysing successful strategies as well as their limitations, we aim to provide perspectives that might contribute to changing the culture of hegemonic masculinities in academia.
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity, Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis, Wissenschaft als Beruf
The changing role of women in higher education : Academic and leadership issues
Herausgeber/in:
Eggins, Heather
Quelle: Cham: Springer Verlag (The changing academic profession in international comparative perspective, 17), 2017. xxviii, 310 S
Inhalt: This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues. The scope of the book is international, with a wide range of contributors, whose expertise spans sociology, social science, economics, politics, public policy and linguistic studies, all of whom have a major interest in global education. The volume examines the ways in which the leadership role and academic roles of women in higher education are changing in the twenty first century, offering an up-to-date policy discussion of this area. It is in some sense a sequel to the earlier volume by the same Editor, Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education, but with very different emphases. The pressures now are to respond to the demands of the technological age and to those of the global economy. Today there are more highly qualified and experienced female academics, and more expectation of their gaining the highest posts. Challenges still remain, particularly in terms of the top posts, and in equal pay. The discussion of global policy issues affecting the role of women in higher education is combined with country case studies, several of which are comparative. Together they examine and unpack the particular situations of women in a wide range of higher education systems, from Brazil to the US to Europe to Africa and the Far East, noting the shift towards more flexibility, more personal choice and a greater acceptance by society of their abilities. This volume is a useful and influential addition to published work in this area, and is aimed at the intelligent general reader as well as the scholar interested in this topic.
Quelle: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Kováts, Eszter; Budapest: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Budapest, 2017. 108 S
Inhalt: Based on our two previous volumes, Gender as symbolic glue. The position and role of conservative and far right parties in the anti-gender mobilizations in Europe (Kováts & Põim eds. 2015) and Solidarity in Struggle. Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberalism from East-Central Europe (Kováts ed. 2016), this volume attempts to contribute to these debates.
Frauen und das institutionelle Europa : Politische Partizipation und Repräsentation im Geschlechtervergleich
Autor/in:
Hoecker, Beate
Quelle: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2013.
Inhalt: Die politische Repräsentation von Frauen auf europäischer Ebene hat sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten leicht erhöht, gleichwohl sind Frauen in den Organen und Institutionen der Europäischen Union nach wie vor in der Minderheit. Das Buch dokumentiert diese Entwicklung anhand empirischer Daten und analysiert die Gründe für die anhaltende Unterrepräsentation. Darüber hinaus werden auch die Beteiligung von Frauen an den Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament sowie ihre Einstellungen gegenüber der Europäischen Union in den Blick genommen und auf Geschlechterdifferenzen hin überprüft. Welche Perspektiven sich daraus für die Verwirklichung einer Geschlechterdemokratie ergeben, wird abschließend erörtert. (Verlagsangaben)
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Statistik und statistische Daten, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Towards a global gender democracy? : rethinking citizenship in the context of the globalization of gender relations
Titelübersetzung:Auf dem Weg zur globalen Geschlechterdemokratie? : Citizenship im Kontext von Globalisierung und Geschlechterverhältnissen
Autor/in:
Ernst, Waltraud
Quelle: Reframing demographic change in Europe: perspectives on gender and welfare state transformations. Heike Kahlert (Hrsg.), Waltraud Ernst (Hrsg.). Berlin: Lit Verl. (Focus Gender), 2010, S. 201-223
Inhalt: Nach Ansicht der Verfasserin stellen Migranten in Europa - und hier besonders die oft illegalen weiblichen Pflegekräfte - eine weitreichende Herausforderung auf epistemischer, normativer und empirischer Ebene für die traditionellen Citizenship-Konzepte dar. Die Verfasser plädiert für ein Konzept der demokratischen oder "gelebten" Citizenship, das sich jenseits von formalen Rechten und Pflichten auf demokratische Praktiken und Zugehörigkeitsgefühle bezieht. Sie kritisiert Normen der Homogenität im Ideal der europäischen Citizenship und führt Beispiele an, wie demokratische Partizipation auf lokaler, nationaler und transnationaler Ebene als Schritt zur globalen Geschlechterdemokratie wirken kann. Die Theorie der Citizenship - so ihre Schlussfolgerung - muss den empirischen Kontext der Globalisierung der Geschlechterverhältnisse reflektieren, da Citizenship in der Infragestellung hegemonialer Machtstrukturen ihre demokratische Dimension entfaltet. (ICE)
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Geschlechterverhältnis, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Migration und Migrantinnen
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
Contemporary challanges for Gender research in the context of globalisation
Titelübersetzung:Aktuelle Herausforderungen für die Genderforschung im Kontext der Globalisierung
Autor/in:
Lenz, Ilse
Quelle: GenderChange in Academia: re-mapping the fields of work, knowledge, and politics from a gender perspective. Birgit Riegraf (Hrsg.), Brigitte Aulenbacher (Hrsg.), Edit Kirsch-Auwärter (Hrsg.), Ursula Müller (Hrsg.). Wiesbaden: VS Verl. für Sozialwiss., 2010, S. 203-216
Inhalt: Thema des Beitrags ist der Einfluss der Globalisierung auf die Geschlechterverhältnisse. Während bisher von einer selektiven Inklusion und Exklusion von Individuen gesprochen werden konnte, die sowohl neue Chancen als auch tiefe Konflikte und Widersprüche erzeugt haben, geht es angesichts einer "neuen Runde" der Globalisierung in Form des Aufstiegs Asiens und des zunehmenden Ost-Süd Handels um eine Transformation von Strukturen und Veränderungen in den Sozialwissenschaften als Beobachtungsinstanzen dieser strukturellen Transformation. Die dadurch ausgelöste Internationalisierung der Genderforschung weltweit birgt das Potenzial für eine universelle und kontextuale Geschlechterforschung. Sie kann sich demnach als Beobachtungsinstanz der Globalisierung und Modernisierung etablieren, anstatt wie bisher innerhalb der eigenen regionalen oder nationalen Grenzen zu bleiben. Abschließend werden transnationale Kooperationsbeispiele für die Geschlechterforschung vorgestellt. (ICH)