Download or read book Measuring Women s Political Empowerment across the Globe written by Amy C. Alexander and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women’s political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for benchmarking and understanding all political empowerment gains across the globe. Chapters improve our global understanding of women's political empowerment through cross-national comparisons, a synthesis of methodological approaches across varied levels of politics, and attention to the ways gender intersects with myriad factors in shaping women’s political empowerment. This book is an indispensable resource for scholars of politics and gender, as well as being relevant to a global scholarly and policy community.
Download or read book Political Empowerment of Women written by Monique Leyenaar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the high level of current concern for the under-representation of women in politics.
Download or read book Women Empowerment in Political Institutions written by D. Sundar Ram and published by Kanishka Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the National Conference on Empowerment of Women in Parliament and Local Self-Government Institutions in India : Role, Status, Participation and Decision Making, held at Tirupati during 19-20 August 2008.
Download or read book Atlas of Gender and Development How Social Norms Affect Gender Equality in non OECD Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender inequality holds back not just women but the economic and social development of entire societies. This atlas presents a new measure of gender inequality which examines women’s status according to family situation, physical integrity, son preference, civil liberties and ownership rights.
Download or read book Political Empowerment of Women at the Grassroots written by K. C. Vidya and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today One Of The Issues Of Concern Is The Level Of Women'S Participation In Political Life. In This Context Reservation Seats Is One Of The Instrument Of Political Empowerment For Women. Karnataka Has Been The First State To Introduce The Policy Of Reservation In The Panchayati Raj Institutions. It Is In This Context That The Study Had Been Taken Up And It Intended To Touch Upon Various Aspects Of Women'S Functioning In The Panchayati Raj Institutions Andits Impacts On The Overall Development Of Wormen Especially In The Rural Areas.
Download or read book Women Empowerment and Grassroots Political Institutions written by Sailen D. Das and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 2697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Equality in Politics written by Julie Ballington and published by Inter-Parliamentary Union. This book was released on 2008 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women in Indian Politics written by Niroja Sinhā and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a concern at the marginal presence of women in Politics. The concern has been voiced through international for a on the one hand and national and local level women groups and academics on the other. The involvement of women in politics in now regarded as an important factor for a healthy democracy. No democracy can be termed as healthy, if half on the population does not participate in the political process. It is also being increasingly realized that participation as mere voters is not enough. It has to be followed by large scale participation in the policy-formulation and decision making process. This book is an attempt at analyzing the problems related to women's political participation in the Indian context. Gender and patriarchy have been used as the conceptual framework. The environmental factors-socio-economic, political and cultural-are in some way or the other, directly related to the norms of gender and patriarchy . About The Author: - Dr. Niroj Sinha, presently Principal of M.M. College, Patna University. She has been engaged in women studies since 1981 and has undertaken research on various aspects of women's life. She has completed two projects, funded by Union Ministry of Welfare and Ministry of Human Resources Development. She has also worked for two international projects-Women in Public Admin., International Perspectives and Women and Politics World-Wide, which have published in book form from Haywarth and Yale, in USA. She has been attending the World Congresses of Political Science since 1979 regularly and has widely travelled in North America, South America, Europe and erstwhile USSR. She has also visited some of the South Asian countries. Contents: - List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction Demystifying Gender: A Step to Social Equity Patriarchy, Politics and Women Women and Political Participation Women's Participation in National Freedom Struggle The Political Scenario in India and Women
Download or read book Women Power and Political Systems written by Margherita Rendel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their analyses of the role of women in politics, political scientists had tended to neglect the family and the labour market, thus ignoring a crucial aspect of women’s political activity. Originally published in 1981, this book shows that the family and the labour market are political institutions directly relevant to the distribution of power and to economic and social development. Because the political functions of these two institutions are ignored, political systems are misunderstood with serious consequences for the implementation of policy. The studies in the book, which relate to widely different political systems and which cross disciplinary boundaries, all concentrate on the crucial activities of women. They serve to increase our understanding of the political implications of the family, of the sexual divisions of both domestic and wage labour and of the role of education in these inequalities at the time. They show the fundamental comparability of the problems posed by patriarchy as well as the diversity of their manifestations in different political and economic systems. Further, the studies show an unexpected dependence of male-dominated institutions, such as the military and high technology, on women’s traditional gender roles. Ways of empowering the powerless through law, political activity and employment are also discussed. By extending the scope of discussion, this book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of politics and of the centrality of women to political structures.
Download or read book The Struggle for Equal Political Representation of Women in Sri Lanka written by Chulani Kodikara and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and Politics in Latin America written by Nikki Craske and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different arenas of action and debate: political institutions, workplaces, social movements, revolutions and feminisms.
Download or read book Gender Discrimination written by Prem R. Bhardwaj and published by Anamika Pub & Distributors. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles with reference to Indian women's rights on discrimination presented earlier at National Seminar on Gender Discrimination and Empowerment of Women--A Vision for 21st Century organized at Nāhan, Himachal Pradesh on April 13-15, 2002.
Download or read book Double Edged Politics on Women s Rights in the MENA Region written by Hanane Darhour and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries. Changes in the position of women are crucial to the reconfiguration of state-society relations and to the discussions between Islamist and secular trends. Theoretically framed and based on new empirical data, this edited volume explores women’s activism and political representation as well as discursive changes, with a particular focus on secular and Islamic feminism, and changes in popular opinions on women’s position in society. While the contributors express optimistic as well as more pessimistic views for the future, they agree that this is a period of uncertainty for women in the region, and that support by ruling elites towards women’s rights remains ambiguous and double-edged.
Download or read book Women in Politics written by Mariz Tadros and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women's political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still. We have, however, begun to understand what it takes to create an enabling environment for women's political participation. In this exciting and pioneering collection, writers from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East are brought together for the first time to talk explicitly about women's participation in the political scene across the global South. Answering such questions as how women can get political apprenticeship opportunities, how these opportunities translate into the pursuit of a political career, and how these pursuits then influence the kind of political platform women advocate once in power, Women in Politics is essential reading for anyone interested in what it means to engage politically.
Download or read book Empowerment of Women in India written by V. S. Ganesamurthy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent of empowerment of women in a nation is largely determined by three factors - economic, social, and political identity. India's Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-07) called for a three-pronged strategy of social empowerment, economic empowerment, and providing gender justice to create a positive environment of economic, and social policies for women, and eliminating all forms of discrimination against them. The government of India has initiated various schemes spread across a broad spectrum, such as women's need for shelter, security, safety, legal aid, justice, information, maternal health, food, nutrition etc., as well as their need for economic sustenance through skill development, education, and access to credit and marketing. In order to address the phenomenon of domestic violence, which is widely prevalent but remains largely invisible in the public domain, the Protection from Domestic Violence Act, 2006 was enacted by the Indian Parliament. This collection of 35 papers examines various areas of interest including socio-economic status, women entrepreneurship, women in politics, role of information and communication technology in empowering women, and domestic violence.
Download or read book Feminisms Empowerment and Development written by Jenny Edwards and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy. Feminisms, Empowerment and Development explores what women are doing to change their own personal circumstances whilst providing an in-depth analysis of collective action and institutionalized mechanisms aimed at changing structural relations. Drawing on unique, original research and approaching empowerment as a complex process of negotiation, rather than a linear sequence of inputs and outcomes, this crucial collection highlights the difficulty of creating common agendas for the advancement of women's power and rights, and argues for a more nuanced, context-based approach to development theory and practice. An indispensible text for anyone interested in gender and development, this book shows that policies and approaches to development that view women as instrumental to other objectives will never promote women's empowerment as they fail to address the structures by which gender inequality is perpetuated over time.
Download or read book Women and Empowerment written by Marilee Karl and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empowerment of women by their increased participation in all aspects of political, social and economic life has become one of the major goals of democratic and participatory movements, as well as women's organizations, throughout the world. This book examines the vital interaction of women's increasing participation, decision-making and empowerment. Marilee Karl also examines the legal, economic and social obstacles faced by women around the world. She provides vivid examples of women responding to those challenges. Beyond offering an understanding of what participation and empowerment are and can be, this book seeks to promote women's participation whether at the grassroots or at national and international levels. The book looks at the growing involvement of women in different organizations, politics and public life, development programmes and international decision-making. It outlines the strategies, mechanisms and tools that women are using for their empowerment and explains new priorities and perspectives that women are bringing to today's key issues.
