Author: Status of Women CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Setting the Stage for the Next Century: the Federal Plan for Gender Equality
Author: Status of Women CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Setting the Stage for the Next Century: the Federal Plan for Gender Equality
Author: Status of Women CanadaSetting the Stage for the Next Century
Author: Canada. Status of Women CanadaPublisher: Condition féminine Canada
ISBN:
Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Canada, along with all United Nations member countries, was called upon to formulate a national plan to advance the situation of women, both within its own borders and globally. This document is Canada's response to that request and its contribution toward the goals of the global Platform for Action to be adopted at the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in September 1995.
Remapping Gender in the New Global Order
Author: Marjorie Griffin-CohenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135988986
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book analyses changes in gender relations, as a result of globalization, in countries on the semi-periphery of power. Semi-periphery refers to those nations which are not drivers of change globally, but have enough economic and political security to have some power in determining their own responses to global forces. Individual countries obviously face challenges that are to some extent unique, although the prescriptions for economic and social restructuring are based on a common competitive logic. Remapping Gender in the New Global Order draws on examples from four countries on the semi-periphery of power but still located in the top category of the UNDP’s Human Development Index. At one end is Norway, one of the world’s richest and most developed welfare-states, and, at the other, is Mexico, a country that is considerably poorer and more susceptible to the power of the United States and international agencies. Australia and Canada, the other two semi-peripheral countries examined, are in the middle. Also included are comparisons with the epicentre of the ‘core’ base of power – the United States. The individual chapters focus on the effect on specific groups of people, including males and indigenous groups, the mechanisms people use to both cope with dramatic social changes, and the strategies and alliances that are used to affect the course of changes. It covers topics that range from implications of labour migration on care regimes to globalism’s effect on masculinity and the ‘male breadwinner’ model.
Legalizing Misandry
Author: Paul NathansonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077355999X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that this reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class. They argue that ideological feminism is silently reshaping law, public policy, education, and journalism.
Equality Governance via Policy Analysis?
Author: Arn T. SauerPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839443768
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Gender impact assessment has been both celebrated as a beacon of hope for the cause of gender equality and criticised as being ineffectual. More than 20 years of gender mainstreaming have demonstrated that equality governance with and through impact assessment is an intersectional and still evolving process. Arn T. Sauer's study examines the instruments of gendered policy analysis and the conditions under which they are being used by the Canadian federal government and the European Commission. Interviews with experts from public administration and instrument designers as well as document analyses reveal benefits and challenges and show that the success of equality governance depends upon whether knowledge about gendered policy and appropriate administrative practices are embedded, embodied and entrenched in public administration.
Counting Matters
Author: Christina GabrielPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774870192
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Counting Matters examines the ways in which the rise of gender equality measurement contributes to, but falls short of, effective gender equality policy implementation. As technocrats adopt often contextless indices, questions of the theoretical and practical limitations of measurement arise, especially as they pertain to social and cultural relations. The indicators being produced influence the allocation of resources as political decisions but are themselves part of a power regime based on the collection and analysis of data, a regime that obfuscates biases and the agendas behind the statistics. The book’s contributors pose critical questions of the ways in which measurement culture manifests within the field of gender equality, asking how it is measured in different policy areas, how we might improve existing practices, and what is revealed through the examination and critique of the “technical turn” in policies that purport to promote gender equality.
Not for Sale
Author: Rebecca WhisnantPublisher: Spinifex Press
ISBN: 9781876756499
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Prostitution and pornography are linked with racism and male dominance as well as with imperialism, militarism (including torture) and global corporate culture. The result is devastating harm for women and children within these industries. Subjected to physical and psychological violence - poverty, drug addiction and homelessness are their usual companions. With its mix of personal stories, theory, research, testimony, and accounts of current activism, Not For Sale will be an invaluable resource for all those seeking to inform themselves about the realities of the sex business and will serve to strengthen and broaden feminist resistance to pornography and prostitution.
Women, Work and Computerization
Author: A. Frances GrundyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540626107
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This volume considers the submissions to the 6th International IFIP-TC 9/WG 9.1 Conference on Women, Work and Computerization WWC 97. The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and users in the field of information technology. In this book the authors discuss how different areas of society are being transformed by computer technology, but with particular emphasis on changes in women's work and life and how these have come about. Such transformations include the transitions from women's traditional work to work based on modern technology; from communicating within personal communities to communicating within virtual communities; from traditional job gendering to new perspectives on "who does what".
Essays on the Quality of Life
Author: Alex C. MichalosPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401703892
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. Michalos has been a pioneer in social indicators and quality-of-life research. This collection of nineteen articles provides an overview of nearly 30 years of work, including papers drawn from diverse sources and papers never published before. The final paper, on multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), is the author's unique contribution to an empirically testable new foundation for theories of utility, satisfaction and happiness.