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the case of women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, politieke partijen, rechterlijke instanties, wetgeving, sociale bewegingen, Verenigde Staten, Latijns-Amerika, West-Europa, Afrika, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- The essays in this book constitute a comparative move toward defining new and unified theoretical orientations to studying representation among women. The book begins with a theoretical positioning of the meaning of women's interests, issues and preferences. It then looks at descriptive representation in political parties, high courts, and legislatures, as well as how definitions of ‘interest’ affect who represents women in legislatures and social movements. Chapters include cases from the United States, Latin America, Western Europe and Africa. Contents: 1. Dilemmas in the meaning and measurement of representation / Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson: 2. Plotting the path from one to the other / Karen Beckwith: 3. Intersectional representation or representing intersectionality? / Ange-Marie Hancock: 4. Representing women / Drude Dahlerup: 5. The effect of preferential voting on women’s representation / Richard E. Matland, and Emelie Lilliefeldt: 6. Gender, high courts, and ideas about representation in Western Europe / Valerie Hoekstra, Miki Caul Kittilson, and Elizabeth Andrews Bond: 7. Political inclusion and representation of afrodescendant women in Latin America / Mala Htun: 8. How civil society represents women / Alice J. Kang: 9. Unpacking women’s issues / Michele L. Swers: 10. Representing women’s interests and intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity in US State Legislatures / Beth Rein Gold, and Kerry L. Haynie: 11. Representing women / Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson: 12. Does presence produce representation of interests? / Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 1991
- Shelfmark
- WER 72 1991 - C
- Thesaurus
- Oost-Europa, vrouwen, arbeid, politieke participatie, geboorteregeling, onderwijs, statistiek, congrespaper, bundel
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lee, Rose J. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Clark, Cal > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Ling, L.H.M.
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B819 - B
- Thesaurus
- democratie, politieke participatie, Oost-Azië, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- To study democracy and its impact on women, the authors of the essays describe aspects of emancipation and empowerment of women in patriarchal Asian societies. The authors also pay attention to what appears to be a very distinctive set of relationships among traditional cultures, patters of industrialization and political devlopment.
beyond numbers
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Karam, Azza > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Migirou, Kalliope
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 1998 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, volksvertegenwoordigers, wereld, bundel, statistiek
- Description
- Handboek met statistische gegevens over de deelname van vrouwen in parlementen. Aandacht voor de rol en invloed van vrouwelijke parlementariërs over de gehele wereld op de volksvertegenwoordinging in hun land.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Afshar, Haleh > (ed.)
- Creator
- Barrientos, Stephanie > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Tarfa, Sintiki
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- WER 1L 1999 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenstudies, economie, recht, politieke participatie, islam, feminisme, industrialisatie, milieu, voedselproductie, arbeidsmarkt, gezondheid, voorlichting, rurale ontwikkeling, ontwikkelingslanden, Afrika, Azië, Latijns-Amerika, bundel, statistiek
- Description
- Beschrijving van de gevolgen van globalisering op het leven van vrouwen in de derde wereld. Bevat: Introduction: women, globalization and fragmentation / door Haleh Afshar en Stephanie Barrientos: Fractioned states and negotiated boundaries: gender and law in India / door Shirin M. Rai: Right-wing mobilization of women in India: Hindutva's willing performers / door Jahnavi Phalkey: The impact of global and the reconstruction of local islamic ideology, and an assessment of its role in shaping feminist politics in post-revolutionary Iran / door Haleh Afshar: The informal sector and the conservative consensus: a case of fragmentation in Egypt / door Noha El-Mikawy: Women-headed households: global orthodoxies and grassroots realities / door Sylvia Chant: Women, industrialization and the environment in Indonesia / door Ines Smyth: Gender and the global food chain: a comparative study of Chile and the UK / door Stephanie Barrientos en Diane Perrons: Women's work in changing labour markets: the case of Thailand in the 1980s / door Rachel Kurian: Health education for women as a liberatory process?: an example from Tajikistan / door Colette Harris: Why rural technologies fail to meet the needs of Nigerian women: evidence from Hausa women's groups in Kano state / door Sintiki Tarfa.
obstacles and challenges
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Iwanaga, Kazuki > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Dahlerup, Drude
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2008
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, politici, wetgeving, platteland, democratie, quota, Japan, Taiwan, China, Zuid-Korea, Cambodja, Thailand, Filipijnen, Sri Lanka, Azië, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- Prominence has often been given to the lives and activities of such top female leaders in Asia as Indira Gandhi and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper-class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. This book looks at political actors in Asia and covers a wide range of Asian countries, offers original data from various perspectives and engages the latest research on women in politics in Asia.
women's political engagement in Canada
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bashevkin, Sylvia > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Banducci, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2009
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, burgerschap, communicatie, media, verkiezingen, volksvertegenwoordigers, feminisme, politieke partijen, Canada, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- From the days of the fur trade through the contemporary period, women have played important roles in the public life of Canada. Until the 1970s, however, these contributions were generally overlooked. This book looks at the progress made in the last forty years to raise the profile of women's involvement in public life. .The contributors focus on two questions with reference to community activism, the politics of feminist organizing, parties and elections, and the communications environment in which politicians operate. First, are the doors to participation presently open wider than they were in the past? What obstacles as well as possibilities face specific groups of female citizens? Have patterns of media coverage shifted such that women can expect to engage in community groups and party organizations on something approaching an even playing field? Second, how can these doors be opened wider, both in terms of real-world participation and our scholarly understanding of public engagement? What remedies have been proposed? What research directions need to be pursued?
minority women in U.S. politics
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brown, Nadia E. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Gershon, Sarah Allen > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 6 2016 - B
- Description
- In this volume, the editors seek to present studies of minority women that highlight how they are similar and dissimilar to other groups of women or minorities, as well as variations within groups of minority women. This book provides a view of how minority women will utilize their sheer numbers, collective voting behaviour, policy preferences, and roles as elected officials to impact American politics. Table of Contents:
Part I: Gender, race, ethnicity and mass behavior : 2. The Differential effect of resources on political participation across gender and racial groups / Mirya Holman: 3. Linked fate at the intersection of race, gender and ethnicity / K. Jurée Capers and Candis Watts Smith: 4. African American Women: leading ladies of liberal politics / Pearl K.Ford Dowe: 5. In considering the political behavior of Asian American Women / Jeanette Yih Harvie: 6. Hawks and doves? An analysis of Latina and Latino attitudes toward military intervention in Iraq / Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Adrian D. Pantoja: Part II: race, gender and campaigning for office : 7. How do you see me?: Stereotyping of black women and how it affects them in an electoral context / Jessica D. Johnson Carew: 8. A Tulsi by any other name: an analysis of South Asian American support for a Hindu congressional candidate / Shyam K. Sriram: 9. Latina issues: an analysis of the policy issue competencies of Latina candidates / Ivy A.M. Cargile: 10. Media framing of black women’s campaigns for the US House of representatives / Orlanda Ward: Part III: Race, gender and office holding : 11. Officeholding in the fifty states: the pathways women of color take to statewide elective executive office / Kira Sanbonmatsu: 12. New expectations for Latina state legislative representation / Christina E. Bejarano: 13. The unique career path of Latina legislators, 1990-2010 / Ricardo Ramirez and Carmen Burlingame: 14. Asian Pacific Americans in U.S. politics: gender and pathways to elected office / Nicole Filler and Pei-te Lien: 15. Race, perceptions of femininity and the power of the first lady: a comparative analysis / Andra Gillespie: 16. To be young, gifted, black, and a woman: a comparison of the presidential candidacies of Charlene Mitchell and Shirley Chisholm / Christina Greer: 17. Raising their voices in tribal politics: indigenous women leaders in Arizona and New Mexico / Diane M. Prindeville and Lawrence Broxton: 18. Why are you under the skirts of women?: Race, gender and abortion policy in the Georgia state legislature / Tonya M. Williams
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Franceschet, Susan > [ed.]
- Creator
- Krook, Mona Lena > [ed.]
- Creator
- Tan, Netina > [ed.]
- Contributor
- Hughes, Melanie M.
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- WER 62 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, vrouwenkiesrecht, verkiezingen, politici, regeringsleiders, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- This handbook provides an account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. Authors map and assess the impact of groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Oxley, Zoe > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 6 2016
- Thesaurus
- politiek, psychologisch, politieke participatie, vrouwbeelden, identiteit, racisme, man vrouw verschillen, Verenigde Staten, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- This book showcases new work done by gender politics scholars and political psychologists, covering a variety of political psychology topics. These include stereotyping and prejudice, intergroup conflict, social identity, attitude formation, group affinity, group decision-making, anxiety, contextual effects on individual behaviour, and the evolutionary roots of political behaviour. Political psychological insights are applied to address topics of longstanding concern within the field of gender and politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of ‘Politics, Groups, and Identities’. Table of Contents: Introduction: Gender and political psychology / Zoe M. Oxley: 1. Same blueprint, different bricks: reexamining the sources of the gender gap in political ideology / Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky: 2. Why partisan warriors don’t listen: the gendered dynamics of intergroup anxiety and partisan conflict / Patrick R. Miller and Pamela Johnston Conover: 3. Americana or Latina? Gender and identity acquisition among Hispanics in the United States / Heather Silber Mohamed: 4. Untangling the gender gap in symbolic racist attitudes among white Americans / Angie Maxwell: 5. The unintended effects of political party affirmative action policies on female candidates’ nomination chances / Angela L. Bos: 6. Who stereotypes female candidates? Identifying individual differences in feminine stereotype reliance / Nichole M. Bauer: 7. Making the connection? Attitudes about women in politics and voting for women candidates / Kathleen Dolan and Timothy Lynch: 8. Mothers on the campaign trail: implications of politicized motherhood for women in politics / Grace Deason, Jill S. Greenlee and Carrie A. Langner: Dialogue: Gender, Group Deliberation, and Authority: 9. Why women’s numbers elevate women’s influence, and when they do not: rules, norms, and authority in political discussion / Christopher F. Karpowitz, Tali Mendelberg and Lauren Mattioli: 10. Women’s agency and voice: a commentary on Karpowitz, Mendelberg, and Mattioli / Leonie Huddy: 11. Empowerment versus backlash: gender quotas and critical mass theory / Mona Lena Krook: 12. Gendered politics: political psychology at the intersection of the individual and the environment / Nicholas J.G. Winter: 13. Numbers, rules, norms, and authority. .. but where are the people? Some thoughts on Karpowitz, Mendelberg, and Mattioli / Rebecca J. Hannagan: 14. How group forces demonstrate the malleability of gendered behaviour / Christopher F. Karpowitz, Tali Mendelberg and Lauren Mattioli.
the politics of survival in sub-Saharan Africa
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mikell, Gwendolyn > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Schoepf, Brooke Grundfest
- Publish Year
- 1997
- Shelfmark
- B1428 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwart feminisme, familierecht, textielindustrie, sociale klasse, alcohol, steden, kolonialisme, migratie, plattelandsvrouwen, politieke participatie, crisissen, vrouwennetwerken, technologie, traditionele geneeswijzen, aids, Afrika, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- De bundel bevat case studies waarin een beeld wordt geschetst van de politieke en economische situatie in tien Afrikaanse landen. Tevens wordt aangetoond dat Afrikaans feminisme zich sterk onderscheidt van westers feminisme. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Part I. Legal interactions in the domestic realm : 1) Changing the meaning of marriage : women and family law in Côte d'Ivoire/ door Jeanne Maddox Toungara: 2) Wives, children, and Intestate Succession in Ghana/ door Takyiwaa Manuh: 3)Pleas for domestic relief : Akan women and family courts/ door Gwendolyn Mikell. Part II. Economic change, political economy and womens's lives : 4) Swazi women workers in cottage industries and factories/ door Betty J.Harris: 5) Alcohol and politics in urban Zambia : the intersection of gender and class/ door Ilsa M.Glazer: 6) Women's roles in settlement and resettlement in Mali/ door Dolores Koenig: 7) Ethiopian rural women and the state/ door Tsehai Berhane-Selassie: 8)Women and grassroots politics in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire/ door Carlene H.Dei: 9) Kenyan women in politics and public decision making/ door Maria Nzomo: Part III Surviving crisis in the community 10)'Our women keep our skies from falling' : women's networks and survival imperatives in Tshunyane, South Africa/ door Shawn Riva Donaldson 11) Technology and the fuel crisis : adjustment among women in Northern Nigeria/ door D.J. Shehu 12) Swazi traditional healers, role transformation, and gender/ door Enid Gort 13) AIDS, gender and sexuality during Africa's economic crisis/ door Brooke Grundfest Schoepf.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dahlerup, Drude > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2006
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, quota, democratie, empowerment, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- Women, Quotas and Politics offers a global comparative analysis of the new trend to introduce gender quotas in public elections in order to achieve gender balance in political institutions. This book presents cutting-edge research about the discursive controversies and actual implementation processes in countries with quota provisions. Providing a quantitative and qualitative assessment of these quotas in a variety of political systems, from developing nations and new democracies to established democracies, the contributors evaluate how they have been implemented: where these quotas have succeeded and failed: and how they can contribute to the political empowerment of women.
reversing the gaze
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Magnus, Edda > [ed]
- Creator
- Kabeer, Naila > [ed]
- Creator
- Stark, Agneta > [ed]
- Contributor
- Cos-Montiel, Francisco
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 1N 2008
- Thesaurus
- arbeidsmarkt, gezinnen, loopbanen, verlofregelingen, politieke participatie, gelijke behandeling, landen in transitie, quota, statistiek, Zweden, Pakistan, Argentinië, Iran, Hongarije, India, Afrika, Mexico, Zuid-Afrika, bundel
- Description
- The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. The book brings together scholars from the global South and post-socialist economies to reflect on Nordic approaches to gender equality. The contributors to the book seek to explore from a comparative perspective the vision, values, policies, mechanisms, coalitions of interests and political processes that help to explain Nordic achievements on gender equality. While some contributors explore the Nordic experience through the prism of their own realities, others explore their own realities through the Nordic prism.
women, work and welfare in the 1990s
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- González, María José > (ed.)
- Creator
- Jurado, Teresa > (ed.)
- Creator
- Naldini, Manuela > (ed.)
- Creator
- Orloff, Ann Shola > (forew.)
- Contributor
- Morales, Laura
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B1508 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, gezinnen, gelijke behandeling, arbeidsmarkt, sociale zekerheid, overheidsbeleid, politieke participatie, Zuid-Europa, West-Europa, bundel, statistiek
- Description
- Aandacht voor ongelijkheid tussen mannen en vrouwen op het gebied van werk en welzijn en interacties tussen staat, gezin en arbeidsmarkt in Zuid-Europese landen. Bevat: Introduction: interpreting the transformation of gender inequalities in Southern Europe / door María José González, Teresa Jurado en Manuela Naldini: Women's flexible work and family responsabilities in Greece / door Nota Kyriazis: Development and equality between women and men in the Portugese labour market / door Isabel Margarida André en Paulo Areosa Feio: The family paradigm in the Italian welfare state (1947-1996) / door Franca Bimbi: Social rights of women with children: lone mothers and poverty in Italy, Germany and Great Britain / door Elisabetta Ruspini: Gender in the reform of the Italian welfare state / door Elisabetta Addis: To what extent does it pay to be better educated? Education and the work market for women in Italy / door Francesca Bettio en Paola Villa: Is the male provider model still in place? Partnership formation in contemporary Spain / door Marta Luxán, Pau Miret en Rocío Treviño: Separation and divorce in Spain / door Montserrat Solsona, René Houle en Carles Simó: Political participation: exploring the gender gap in Spain / door Laura Morales.
daughters of a revolution - young women today
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Costello, Cynthia B. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Wight, Vanessa R. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Stone, Anne J. > (ed.) (introd.)
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4773 - B
- Thesaurus
- volwassenen, wit, zwart, etnische groepen, onderwijs, demografie, gezondheid, anticonceptie, inkomen, krijgsmacht, politieke participatie, arbeidsparticipatie, werkloosheid, zorgarbeid, congressen, verzekeringen, biografische gegevens, Spaans, Verenigde Staten, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- The ninth edition in The American Woman series focuses on daughters of the feminist revolution and the baby boom generation, women between the ages of 25 and 35. The contributors explore the opportunities and challenges confronting these young women. The volume also contains a statistical portrait of women of all ages, including tables and figures that provide readers with the hard numbers underlying the trends shaping the experiences of women of all ages.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bauer, Gretchen > (ed.)
- Creator
- Britton, Hannah Evelyn > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- AFR 6 2006
- Thesaurus
- volksvertegenwoordigers, politieke participatie, politici, wetgeving, religie, statistiek, Afrika, bundel
- Description
- Working together across religious, ethnic, and class divisions, African women are helping to formulate legislation and foster democracies more inclusive of women's interests.This book explores this phenomenon, examining the impact and experiences of African women as they seek increased representation in national legislatures. .The authors' carefully constructed case studies allow cross-national comparisons of the range of strategies that African women have used to achieve greater involvement in national politics. A unique feature of the work is the voices of African women themselves, who explain how they achieved or continue to fight for electoral success, how they learned to work with lifelong adversaries, and how they have begun to transform their parliaments.
getting to the top
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Costello, Cynthia B. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Stone, Anne J. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Persily, Lesley Primmer
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B2660 - B
- Thesaurus
- leidinggevende beroepen, ondernemers, politici, onderwijsberoepen, vakbonden, demografie, inkomen, gezondheid, militaire beroepen, sociale zekerheid, politieke participatie, volksvertegenwoordigers, Verenigde Staten, naslagwerk, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- Achtste editie uit een serie, met essays van vooraanstaande auteurs over vrouwen als politieke leiders, in hoger onderwijs, business, vakbonden en krijgsmacht. Bevat biografietjes van vrouwen in het Amerikaanse Congres en een uitgebreid statistisch beeld van Amerikaanse vrouwen in 2001.
an introduction to women's studies
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bates, Ülkü Ü.
- Creator
- Denmark, Florence L.
- Creator
- Held, Virginia
- Creator
- Helly, Dorothy O.
- Creator
- Hune, Shirley
- Creator
- Lees, Susan H.
- Creator
- Mascia-Lees, Frances E.
- Creator
- Pomeroy, Sarah B.
- Creator
- Somerville, Carolyne M.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 22 2005
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenstudies, etniciteit, sociale klasse, vrouwbeelden, seksualiteit, identiteit, diversiteit, vrouwenlichamen, hormonen, lesbische vrouwen, intersectionaliteit, leefvormen, moederschap, religie, onderwijs, gezondheid, betaalde arbeid, vrouwenbewegingen, politieke participatie, burgerschap, feminisme, bundel, statistiek
- Description
- This new edition of Women's Realities, Women's Choices introduces readers to the field of women's studies by examining the contradictions between social and cultural 'givens' and the realities that women face in society. Written collectively by nine authors from as many fields and disciplines, the book acknowledges the gap between women's realities and their choices--and both analyzes that gap and looks at ways to bridge it. Boxes and pictures contain new information. The book also highlights the impact of the post-Soviet world and economic globalization on women's lives, as well as the feminist issues of the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Chapter references have been updated to include not only films but also web sites.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- O'Neill, Brenda > (ed.)
- Creator
- Gidengil, Elisabeth > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 1 N 2006
- Thesaurus
- netwerken, organisaties, politieke participatie, milieu, religie, advocaten, meisjes, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- Social capital refers to connections among individuals ( social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them ) This volume brings together a group of contributors who examine the social capital thesis by means of four different approaches: theoretical, historical, comparative, and empirical. In the end, this book will serve to answer two fundamental questions which have hitherto been neglected: What can a gendered analysis tell us about social capital? And what can social capital tell us about women and politics?
a critical frame analysis of gender policies in Europe
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Verloo, Mieke > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 1N 2007
- Thesaurus
- gelijke behandeling, discriminatie, gender, overheidsbeleid, bevolkingspolitiek, huiselijk geweld, prostitutie, migratie, homoseksualiteit, recht, politieke participatie, Europa, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe - including the European Union and member states such as Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Slovenia, Greece, and Spain - and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. The different meanings of gender equality are explored comparatively in relation to the issues of family policies, domestic violence, and gender inequality in politics, while specific national contexts discuss the issues of prostitution (Austria, Slovenia), migration (the Netherlands), homosexual rights (Spain), and antidiscrimination (Hungary). Each chapter will provide insights on the ongoing theoretical and political debate about gender equality.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jayaweera, Swarna > (ed.)
- Creator
- Goonesekere, Savitri
- Creator
- Coomaraswamy, Radhika
- Creator
- Samarasinghe, Daya
- Creator
- Silva, Wimala de
- Creator
- Jayawardena, Kumari
- Creator
- Alwis, Malathi de
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B4106 - B
- Thesaurus
- emancipatie, politieke participatie, vrouwenbewegingen, geweld, etniciteit, leefvormen, gezondheid, wetgeving, Sri Lanka, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- Bringing together activists and researchers this book reviews the different paths Sri Lankan women have taken to achieve greater political and economic empowerment and control over their lives after the independence in 1948. In the first part of the book researchers focus on various spheres where women are affected, including law and human rights, the impact of the continuing enthnic conflict, education and employment, health and population, changes in social structures and the emergence of women's organizations. The second part of the book presents the voices of Sri Lankan women themselves.
women's political effectiveness in contexts of democratization and governance reform
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Goetz, Anne Marie > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Musembi, Celestine Nyamu
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2009
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, politieke partijen, besturen, volksvertegenwoordigers, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- 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 representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Noerdin, Edriana > (ed.)
- Creator
- Aripurnami, Sita > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Muchtar, Yanti
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- ZO.AZ. 6 2007
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, politieke participatie, actiegroepen, democratie, vrouwenorganisaties, ngo's, statistiek, Indonesië, bundel
- Description
- Decentralization has been implemented in indonesia since 2000. The outcomes show that decentralization has two faces. It marginalizes women but at the same time also provides space for women to redefine theire role in local governance. This book offers a gendered analysis of decentralization to capture the efforts of women and women's organizations to make decentralization meaningful for daily life.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Steel, Gill > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 1M 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- gelijke behandeling, gelijke beloning, dagelijks leven, vrije tijd, politieke participatie, beleid, wetgeving, Japan, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- A collection of essays, investigating the question 'Why Japanese women enjoy a high sense of well-being in a context of high inequality”? The authors analyze women’s values and the lived experiences at home, in the family, at work, in their leisure time, as volunteers, and in politics and policy-making.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- LAT 6 2018 - B
- Description
- This publication argues that gender inequality in political representation in Latin America is rooted in institutions and the democratic challenges and political crises facing Latin American countries and that these challenges matter for the number of women and men elected to office, what they do once there, how much power they gain access to, and how their presence and actions influence democracy and society more broadly. The book analyzes the institutional and contextual causes and consequences of women's representation in Latin America. It does this with chapters that analyze gender and political representation regionwide in each of five different ‘arenas of representation’: the presidency, cabinets, national legislatures, political parties, and subnational governments. Besides it provides chapters that analyze gender and representation in each of seven different countries: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.
closing the gap
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Karvonen, Lauri > (ed.)
- Creator
- Selle, Per > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Berntzen, Einar
- Publish Year
- 1995
- Shelfmark
- SCA 6 1995 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, politieke partijen, politici, man vrouw verschillen, arbeidsparticipatie, arbeidsmarkt, organisaties, Noord-Europa, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- In deze bundel komen verschillende aspecten van de deelname van vrouwen aan het openbare leven in Scandinavische landen aan de orde: vrouwen als kiezers en partijleden, vrouwen en politieke macht, vrouwen en EU, vakbonden, arbeidsparticipatie, vrijwilligerswerk, opvang bij vrouwenmishandeling, vrouwen in publieke lichamen, verschillend 'politiek' taalgebruik bij mannen en vrouwen, politieke propaganda. Toegevoegd is een artikel over vrouw en politiek in Nicaragua als contrast.