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young people in developing countries
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jejeebhoy, Shireen J. > [ed]
- Creator
- Shah, Iqbal > [ed]
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- Thapa, Shyam > [ed]
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2005
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, kinderen, jongeren, ontwikkelingslanden, seksueel geweld, daders, slachtoffers, bundel, statistiek
- Description
- This book presents a disturbing picture of non-consensual sex among children and young adults in developing countries. It documents a range of non-consensual experiences--from unwanted touch to forced penetrative sex and gang rape--and sheds light on the experience of young males as both victims and perpetrators, and the unsupportive and sometimes abusive roles of families, teachers, health care providers and law enforcement agents. It argues for a radical review and reform of programs designed to prevent abuse and support survivors.
aiming high, falling short? Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Blanpain, Roger > [ed]
- Creator
- Numhauser-Henning, Ann > [ed]
- Contributor
- Urso, Elena
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 22 2006
- Thesaurus
- gelijke behandeling, positieve actie, loopbanen, deeltijdarbeid, wetenschap, hoogleraren, Zweden, Italië, Duitsland, Hongarije, Nederland, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Frankrijk, Denemarken, EU, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- Although European policy initiatives to advance the position of women in Academia have proliferated, both at national and EU levels, serious inequities of many kinds remain. This situation is exposed and investigated in this book, which presents reports and discussions from a conference held at the Law Faculty of Lund University in December 2004. The participants law professors and social scientists present detailed reports on domestic experiences and regulations in eight European countries Among the many issues raised are the following: positive action in theory and practice: the progress of the EU Commission s strategy to integrate equal opportunity into all Community policies and activities: the motives for promoting women in Academia: the extensive group of part-timers and fixed-term employees at the margin of the traditional academic career: the importance of creating a situation in Academia where woman excellence shows: and the development of marketable research disciplines embodied in private research institutes.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bradshaw, Jonathan > [ed]
- Creator
- Hatland, Aksel > [ed]
- Contributor
- Skevik, Anne
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2006
- Thesaurus
- gezinnen, huwelijken, echtscheidingen, alleenstaande ouders, ouderschap, betaalde arbeid, armoede, vruchtbaarheid, Noord-Europa, Nederland, Duitsland, Verenigd Koninkrijk, EU, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by lower fertility rates, lower marriage rates, increased cohabitation, higher risks of relationship breakdown and episodes of lone parenthood. These changes have also been linked to an increase in the proportion of mothers participating in the labor market. .The contributors to this book trace these social trends over the last twenty years and analyze how social policy has developed and evolved in response. They argue that while the Nordic countries pioneered efforts to recognize new family forms and reconcile work and family life, there is still considerable variation between them as well as some evidence that the non-Nordic countries are catching up.
from polar winds to tropical breezes
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- Book/Boek
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- Punnett, Betty Jane > (ed.)
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- Duffy, Jo Ann > [ed]
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- Fox, Suzy > [ed]
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- Gregory, Ann > [ed]
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- Lituchy, Terry R. > [ed]
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- Monserrat, Silvia Ines > [ed]
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- Olivas-Lujan, Miguel R. > [ed]
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- Santos, Neusa Maria Bastos F. > [ed]
- Contributor
- Wood, Donald
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 53 2006
- Thesaurus
- beroepen, managers, loopbanen, hoogleraren, advocaten, ministers, statistiek, bundel, Verenigde Staten, Canada, Latijns-Amerika
- Description
- This book relates the story of successful women across the Americas: women who are managers, business owners, university professors and administrators, doctors, lawyers and government ministers. .Based on extensive research, including more than 1,100 surveys and 300 interviews of women from Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Jamaica, Mexico, St Vincent and the Grenadines and the USA, the book explains what these women have in common and how they differ. The workplace challenges and barriers to professional success faced by women are also analyzed. Seeking to capture the voices of the women themselves, the authors – also from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures across the Americas – attempt to explain success in the face of personal, social, organizational, cultural and economic obstacles facing women everywhere.
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- Book/Boek
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- Dahlerup, Drude > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2006
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- 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.
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- Book/Boek
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- Huang, Shirlena > [ed]
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- Yeoh, Brenda S.A. > [ed]
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- Rahman, Noor Abdul > [ed]
- Contributor
- Baxter, Janeen
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 53 2005
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, huishoudelijke arbeid, globalisering, etniciteit, migratie, ngo's, statistiek, Azië, bundel
- Description
- Once an occupation traditionally associated with poor rural women who migrated to cities in search of work, paid domestic work is now a transnational occupational niche for millions of women from Asia's less well-off countries-including the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, Sri Lanka, and India-who embark on sojourns to the richer countries of the world-such as Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada, the Middle East and parts of Europe-in search of a more lucrative livelihood and promising futures for their families and themselves. .Transnational domestic workers are important contributors to the economies of the countries that receive them and also to their own countries through the growing volume of money sent home. Despite their crucial role in the global economy, transnational domestic workers, mostly female, continue to migrate and work under unfavorable conditions and remain highly vulnerable to exploitation. .This volume is an attempt to enhance not only academic research on transnational domestic workers, but also the ability of governments, NGOs and civil society groups-especially in sending and receiving countries-to derive appropriate policies and make recommendations to address the problems directly confronted by Asian transnational domestic workers.
research on underrepresentation
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cohoon, J. McGrath > (ed.)
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- Aspray, William > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 2 2006
- Thesaurus
- ICT, onderwijs, loopbanen, betaalde arbeid, etniciteit, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- Taking advantage of the recent surge in research in this area, the editors present the latest findings of both qualitative and quantitative studies. Each section begins with an overview of the literature on current research in the field, followed by individual studies. The first section investigates the relationship between gender and information technology among preteens and adolescents, with each study considering what could lead girls' interest in computing to diverge from boys': the second section, on higher education, includes a nationwide study of computing programs and a cross-national comparison of computing education: the final section, on pathways into the IT workforce, considers both traditional and non-traditional paths to computing careers.
institutions, resources, and mobilization
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- Book/Boek
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- Jaquette, Jane S. > (ed.)
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- Summerfield, Gale > (ed.]
- Contributor
- Tinker, Irene
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 1N 2006
- Thesaurus
- globalisering, armoede, gender mainstreaming, internationale organisaties, ngo's, inheemse volkeren, vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwenorganisaties, empowerment, agrarisch bestaan, wereld, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- The contributors look at connections between women’s well-being and globalization, environmental conservation, land rights, access to information technology, employment, and poverty alleviation. They assess the results of gender mainstreaming, the difficulties that development agencies have translating gender rhetoric into equity in practice, and the conflicts between gender and the reassertion of indigenous cultural identities.
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- Book/Boek
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- Bauer, Gretchen > (ed.)
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- Britton, Hannah Evelyn > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- AFR 6 2006
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- volksvertegenwoordigers, politieke participatie, politici, wetgeving, religie, statistiek, Afrika, bundel
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- 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.
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- Book/Boek
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- Lukic, Jasmina > [ed]
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- Regulska, Joanna > [ed]
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- Zavirsek, Darja > [ed]
- Contributor
- Snitow, Ann
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2006
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- burgerschap, recht, gehandicapten, betaalde arbeid, vrouwenbewegingen, ngo's, landen in transitie, Centraal-Europa, Oost-Europa, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 2000-2009, statistiek, bundel
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- The transformations seen in women's active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe mirror the social political and economic transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s. .This book challenges the universal notion of 'citizenship' by focusing on the diversity of situations women in this region have found themselves in since the end of the 1980s, looking at the challenges and struggles they have faced to assert themselves as citizens and their citizenship rights.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- O'Neill, Brenda > (ed.)
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- 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?
cross-national evidence from micro-data
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Benoit, Mahy
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- Plasman, Robert
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- Rycx, François
- Contributor
- Jaforullah, Mohammad
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 52 2006
- Thesaurus
- arbeidsmarkt, gelijke beloning, loopbanen, Nieuw-Zeeland, EU, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- Pay inequalities between women and men are a key issue for labour market policy. This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of these pay inequalities across countries. Particular attention is devoted to job access and workplace practices, promotions and wage growth, sectoral affiliation and rent-sharing, and unobserved heterogeneity and dynamics. Empirical findings, reported by leading experts, cover a large number of European countries and New Zealand.
divisions of work in post-industrial welfare states
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gonäs, Lena > (ed.)
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- Karlsson, Jan Ch. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Bekkingen, Lisbeth
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 5 2006
- Thesaurus
- betaalde arbeid, zorgarbeid, ICT, verzorgingsstaat, ouderschapsverlof, Europa, Verenigde Staten, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- This book asks if, and to what extent, gender divisions in working life are changing. The contributors discuss the implications from a labour market perspective and a family-work level perspective, which are combined to examine if and where patterns of gender integration can be found. Research from several European countries is presented, as well as from the US, to provide comparative and international perspectives. .The volume provides suggestions for integration at different levels of society and, by applying a multidisciplinary approach and illustrating developments on different analytical levels, the authors further the discussion on how integration can be pursued.
du masculin et du féminin en histoire des crises et des conflits
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bergère, Marc
- Creator
- Capdevila, Luc
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- Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle > (préf.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2006
- Thesaurus
- crisisjaren, oorlog en vrede, politiek, economisch, relaties, mode, vrouwbeelden, historisch, statistiek, oudheid, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Les crises politiques, économiques ou sociales sont un des meilleurs observatoires du fonctionnement des sociétés, par exemple sur les rapports hommes-femmes. Les travaux réunis ici analysent l'intervention de l'événement comme élément perturbateur des assignations de genre. Dans quelle mesure ces phases de crises sont-elles des moments de durcissement, d'ajustement, de recomposition voire de transformation des rapports entre les hommes et les femmes et de leurs représentations. Table des matières:
En pays grec : du sexe des cités au sexe du costume / Pierre Brulé: Les femmes dans les émeutes frumentaires à Rome, Ier siècle av. J.-C. au IIe siècle apr. J.-C. / Christophe Badel: L’intervention du genre dans l’événement : les massacres parisiens de 1418 et le meurtre d’une femme / Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet:
Genre et mutations économiques et sociales : l’émeute frumentaire de Bais en 1766 / Yann Lagadec: Au pays des femmes ou chronique de la mort annoncée de l’homme paraguayen, 1864-1870 et après / Luc Capdevila: Femmes et décolonisation en Afrique Occidentale Française : autour de la marche des femmes de Grand-Bassam, décembre 1949 / Vincent Joly: Le genre dans la guérilla : jeux de genre dans la lutte armée au Brésil des années 1960-1970 / Christina Scheibe Wolff: Les mutations du genre au travers des conflits sociaux en Bretagne dans les années 1968 / Vincent Porhel
economic analyses for industrialized countries
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gustafsson, Siv > (ed.)
- Creator
- Kalwij, Adriaan > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Vagstad, Steinar
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2006
- Thesaurus
- moederschap, loopbanen, religie, Verenigde Staten, Europa, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- One of the most important demographic issues of our time is the increasing age of women at motherhood. This happens in the northern social democratic states Sweden and Norway, in the catholic countries Italy, Spain and Ireland, in the West European countries Netherlands and Germany, in the former socialist transition countries Czech Republic and East Germany, and in the liberal democracy of the United States. The postponement of maternity and the related issue of declining fertility rates are of major interest to policy makers and have provoked much scientific research. This book examines various economic aspects of the role of women’s education in the postponement of maternity in these ten industrialized countries. This book investigates these countries using individual or household survey data and looks particular at the increasing age at motherhood and the investment in education of the mother. In search of socio-economic explanations for this relationship each chapter investigates a specific related research question.