Download or read book Women s Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century written by Kristen Zaleski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century offers a global view into the patriarchal attitudes that shape cultural practices that oppress women and continue to take form in the modern era. In closely examining a range of issues--from the college campus rape epidemic in the United States to the climate change effects in Ghana--this book compels readers to utilize a contextual framework in order to take a closer look into contemporary violence and oppression against women in our world. Written through the lens of transnational feminism, it examines the intersections of nationhood, race, gender, sexuality, and economics within the context of a world shaped by globalization and colonialism, causing the redefinition of borders and the realignment of migration patterns. A transnational feminist perspective also supports a definition of global sisterhood based on equity, understanding, and mutual experiences. Students focusing on social justice, social work, women's studies, feminist theory, and/or violence against women will find the book to be an invaluable resource.
Download or read book Challenging Gender Inequality in Tax Policy Making written by Kim Brooks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes a critical look at the gender of tax policy around the world. Contributors based in eight different countries examine the profound effects that gender norms and practices have had in shaping tax law and policy, and how taxation in turn impacts upon the possibilities for equality along gender, race, class, sexuality and other lines. Chapters explore how the gendered fiscal state might be theorised; how structural choices about rates and bases in tax policy design contribute to gender inequality; how tax policy affects family configurations and perceptions of what constitutes family; how fiscal systems impact on savings and wealth accumulation by women and men; and the role of different policy-making processes and institutions in occluding and sometimes challenging these patterns. Most significantly, perhaps, the book explores these questions in an international frame, traversing countries and continents. The conclusion: fiscal policy has deep rooted, long standing gender implications that affect virtually every aspect of our social, political, and economic lives whether we live in Canada, Australia or Kenya.
Download or read book Human Rights in the 21st Century written by Kathleen E Mahoney and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and challenging volume is the result of a major international rights conference entitled Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Challenge convened in Banff, Alberta, Canada in November 1990. The conference was supported and organized under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, The European Court of Human Rights, the European Human Rights Commission, the Strasbourg Institute of Comparative Human Rights Law, the Alberta Law Foundation and the International Centre at the University of Calgary. Its main objectives were legal education and legal research, which were met by a total of 92 speakers representing 24 different nationalities presenting their views on 24 human rights topics. Women and participants from developing countries in particular, brought a new vision of human rights to topics as varied as reproductive technology, state violence, and biotechnology. The theme of this book is thus the interdependence of legal, social, economic and environmental problems which transcend national and international boundaries and the spirit of solidarity which is required to resolve them. Written by a team of international and renowned human experts, it will provide a substantial contribution to the legal literature on international human rights.
Download or read book Tax and Government in the 21st Century written by Miranda Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad, accessible, evidence-based analysis of tax law and how democratic tax states are confronting today's global digital challenges.
Download or read book Women s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection written by Beth Goldblatt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles such as gender equality, participation and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women's social security rights, the collection analyses recent developments in international law and in a range of national settings. It considers the ILO's Social Protection Floors Recommendation and the work of UN treaty bodies. It explores the different approaches to expansion of social protection in developing countries (China, Chile and Bolivia). It also discusses conditionality in cash transfer programmes, a central debate in social policy and development, through a gender lens. Contributors consider the position of poor women, particularly single mothers, in developed countries (Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland and Spain) facing the damaging consequences of welfare cuts. The collection engages with shifts in global discourse on the role of social policy and the way in which ideas of crisis and austerity have been used to undermine rights with harsh impacts on women.
Download or read book Ten Ways to Survive the Corporate World written by Leon Gettler and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The corporate world of work now seems to be permanently unsettling. Technology, demographics, cultures and economies are in a constant state of flux. There are no rules, people have to adjust as they go along. They try new things, some fail, some succeed. We are now in a state of constantly learning. Whether you are an employee or a manager, these are challenging times. This book is a guide for employees and managers on key issues like how to handle redundancy, how to turn your enterprise into an ideas factory, how to improve customer service, how to manage an ageing workforce, how to handle social media, how to do presentations, how to have difficult conversations and how to manage a crisis. These are not written as rules, its a guide only. And if they encourage you to think of your own way of handling things, then my job is done.
Download or read book On Norms and Agency written by Ana María Muñoz Boudet and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on focus groups and interviews with nearly 4,000 women, men, girls, and boys from 20 countries, this book explores areas that are less often studied in gender and development: gender norms and agency. It reveals how little gender norms have changed, how similar they are across countries, and how they are being challenged and contested.
Download or read book Women in IT in the New Social Era A Critical Evidence Based Review of Gender Inequality and the Potential for Change written by Bernhardt, Sonja and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and statistics support the view that current programs are failing to keep women in the ICT field. Currently, there exist very few solutions to this growing problem. Women in IT in the New Social Era: A Critical Evidence-Based Review of Gender Inequality and the Potential for Change aims to bring this topic to the forefront of discussion about what can be done to correct this lopsided gender distribution. This reference work will be an essential guide for government professionals, students, and researchers in the ICT field looking to develop a solution to equalize the retention rate of women in these related fields.
Download or read book Unions in the 21st Century written by T. Kochan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a series of research essays on the state of unions in many different parts of the world. Written by leading researchers in the field it provides insights into the causes of union decline. But it goes beyond historical analyses to investigate the prospects for the future. Can unions organize in segments of the workforce such as the youth, women, low wage workers and those in the informal sector? Can unions network with other organizations such as NGOs nationally and internationally to gain power and influence?
Download or read book A Subject Index to Current Literature written by Australian Public Affairs Information Service and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Property is a Girl s Best Friend written by Propertywomen.com and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're 18 or 80, whether you have $800 or $800 000, you can invest in property — you just need the know-how. Property is a Girl's Best Friend is the essential property investing guide for Australian and New Zealand women who want financial freedom. With case studies and hot tips to inspire and guide you, let Propertywomen.com show you: 7 property investing strategies for capital gain and cash flow — find out which suits your personality the 25 steps to teach you property investing techniques to uncover great deals that one property woman used to buy 26 properties in just 28 months 16 ways for you to eliminate costly habits that hold you back financially how one property woman made $1 million in just one year with a $1 option 11 top tips to reduce tax legally and increase cash flow. Move over diamonds, property is now a girl's best friend! Property is a Girl's Best Friend is the essential property investing guide for Australian and New Zealand women who want financial freedom.
Download or read book Developing the Right to Social Security A Gender Perspective written by Beth Goldblatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The right to social security, found in international law and in the constitutions of many nations, contributes to the alleviation of poverty globally. Social security and its articulation as a human right have received increased attention in recent years both in response to austerity cuts to welfare in developed countries and as a means of lifting millions out of poverty in developing countries. Women, disproportionately affected by poverty in all parts of the world, stand to gain from a right to social security that takes cognisance of gender discrimination and disadvantage. This book interprets and redefines the right to social security from a gender perspective. Drawing on feminist theory, the book formulates a conceptual approach and a set of principles for a substantively equal, gendered right to social security. In so doing, it challenges the relationship between the right to social security and traditional conceptions of work that exclude women’s labour including their caring roles. It argues that the right must have application at the transnational level if it is to address the changing nature of women’s work due to globalisation. The book applies the framework and principles it develops to a study of international law focusing on the work of key United Nations human rights bodies. It also demonstrates the value of this framework in its analysis of three countries’ social security programmes - South Africa, Australia and India. In combining feminist thought on the nature of work and care with equality theories in developing the right to social security from a gender perspective this book expands the capacity of the right to advance gender equality and address gendered poverty.
Download or read book Women s Career Development Throughout the Lifespan written by Jenny Bimrose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's careers have been a topic of research and discussion in many disciplines including sociology, business, industrial, organisational and vocational psychology, and career guidance. Despite the introduction of equal employment legislation in many countries, women’s patterns of career development continue to reflect structural labour market disadvantage. This unique book brings together expert contributions from academic researchers, as well as representing the voices of older women who participated in an international research investigation. Grounded in multidisciplinary empirical studies, the book provides: • a variety of perspectives on women's careers in the 21st century • an international exploration of the voice of the older woman • an understanding of both the challenges and responses to women as they construct their careers. Offering a comprehensive understanding of women’s career development throughout the lifespan, this book will be of key interest to academics and researchers from the fields of education, psychology, management, geography, labour market economics and sociology, as well as career practitioners, managers, trainers, researchers and policy developers.
Download or read book The Sexual Gerrymander written by Jocelynne A. Scutt and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jocelynne Scutt’s insightful analyses of history, politics, and economics pervade this book. Writing across the scholarship on women, she brings to the fore the social and political gerrymander women face – whether it be in the areas of work, power and public recognition, or the realms of domestic violence, rape, pornography, prostitution or structural sexism.
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Download or read book Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century written by Julia Allison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for childbearing women. With a particular focus on sixteenth and twentieth century midwifery practice, it includes new research which provides evidence of the identity, social status, lives, families and practice of contemporary midwives, and argues that the excellent care given by ecclesiastically licensed midwives in Tudor England was not bettered until the twentieth century. Relying on a wide variety of archived and personally collected material, this history illuminates the lives, words, professional experiences and outcomes of midwives. It explores the place of women in society, the development of midwifery education and regulation, the seventeenth century arrival of the accoucheurs and the continuing drive by obstetricians to medicalise birth. A fascinating and compelling read, it highlights the politics and challenges that have shaped midwifery practice today and encourages readers to be confident in midwifery-led care and giving women choices in childbirth. It is an important read for all those interested in childbirth.
