Gender category: 10444 books
Women in the Academy
Learning From Our Diverse Career Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This edited collection examines women’s roles in the academy. Statistics show that women outnumber men in most universities and that women’s pay still lags behind men’s, but the numbers only hint at the broader story. This edited collection fills that gap with the stories of twelve women—from...
Made In Egypt
Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers – emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain – and the local daily-life realities...
by Julie Prescott, Jan Bogg
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Gender segregation is an issue that still exists in today’s society. With the dominance of men in the science, engineering, and technology sectors, there is still a question of the underrepresentation of women. It is even apparent that in the positions that are predominately female, such as nursing,...
How Inclusive is Inclusive Business for Women?
Examples from Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Inclusive businesses are commercially viable business models that provide in-scale innovative and systemic solutions to problems relevant to the lives of low-income people. Inclusive business companies often involve women in their value chain and provide specific services that help low-income women....
by Torben Iversen, Frances Rosenbluth
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Technological developments move at lightening pace and can bring with them new possibilities for social harm. This book brings together original empirical and theoretical work examining how digital technologies both create and sustain various forms of gendered violence and provide platforms for resistance...
Governing Women
Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s...
Class Questions
Feminist Answers
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Class is a particularly troublesome issue in the United States and other rich capitalist societies. In this feminist analysis of class, noted sociologist Joan Acker examines and assesses feminist attempts to include white women and people of color in discussions of class. She argues that class processes...
Women in a Globalizing World
Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that pro- vide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international au- thors offer varied social justice, anti-racist, Indigenous,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women’s homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe’s leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of this acute social problem,...
Community Activism and Feminist Politics
Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This collection demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as racism, violence, homophobia, focusing on the complex ways that gender, culture, race-ethnicity and class shape women's political consciousness in the US.
Lean Out
How to dismantle the corporate barriers that hold women back
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Why women still fall off the corporate ladder
Despite all the talk of diversity and empowerment, women are still falling off corporate ladders like never before. Although women have been graduating in equal numbers to men for almost 40 years, they remain absent in the highest levels in public...
Representing Women
Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women--in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts. But is sex really an accurate predictor of a legislator's political choices and actions? In this book, Beth...
Citizens By Degree
Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men. Women have also made significant strides in terms of socioeconomic status and political engagement....