Grappling with the relationship between men's endorsement of positive stereotypes of women and support for women's rights

Author(s):  
N. Eugene Walls
Author(s):  
Rosita Ortega Vásquez

This article analyzes the relationship between the extractivist model in Ecuador and state violence against Amazonian women defenders based on the case of Nema Grefa, President of the Sapara Nation of Ecuador (NASE), who has been intimidated and threatened with death on several occasions. From the demand for protective action and request for precautionary measures in favor of the leader and the Sapara people. The analysis of this case discusses collective and women’s rights in a local justice scenario, where the articulation of indigenous organizations, organizations for the defense of women’s rights, ecofeminists and the Ombudsman’s Office (Defensoría del Pueblo) will be key.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-69
Author(s):  
Syeda Mehmoona Khushbakht ◽  
Munazza Sultana

In Pakistan, although women’s activism was initiated since the country came into existence, but a diverse activism was observed by the nation in the form of ‘Aurat March during 2018-2020. The current study examines the Western feminism, what it was initiated for and its accomplishments in the current time. By employing a discourse analysis approach to the ‘Aurat March event, this study highlights the women’s activism in Pakistan, ‘Aurat March and the antipathy faced by organizers and supporters from the public because of its strange slogans and ridiculous placards. It also observes the relationship between western feminism and ‘Aurat March activism from the perspective of the social, cultural, and religious transformation of society. The study finds the need to raise a constructive and logical voice for women’s rights with support of the public to eradicate social evils instead of focusing on insignificant matters. It has further recommended that there is a need to build a framework in which one may be able to differentiate women’s rights in the context of western feminism and the limitation of women’s emancipation in Islamic context.


2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-393
Author(s):  
Shannon Speed ◽  
María Teresa Sierra ◽  
Lynn Stephen ◽  
Jessica Johnson ◽  
Heike Schaumberg

In recent years in both the United States and Latin America, indigenous peoples have taken increasing control over local justice, creating indigenous courts and asserting more autonomy in the administration of justice in their tribes, regions, or communities. New justice spaces, such as the Chickasaw District Courts in Oklahoma and the Zapatista Good Governance Councils in Chiapas, work to resolve conflict based largely on indigenous ‘customs and traditions.’ Many of the cases brought before these local legal bodies are domestic cases that directly involve issues of gender, women’s rights and culture. Yet the relationship between ‘indigenous traditions’ and women’s rights has been a fraught one. This forum article considers how these courts emerged in the context of neoliberalism and whether they provide new venues for indigenous women to pursue their rights and to challenge gendered social norms or practices that they find oppressive.


2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 650-670
Author(s):  
Ana Vuković

The paper deals with the analysis of feminists' arguments about the sex/gender dichotomy within the relationship to trans activism. In the first part of the paper, we will give the usual definitions of sex and gender in feminist literature and the views of feminists on trans activism. Next, we will explain which trans activists' views feminists disagree with, and how language is used for ideological purposes. The aim of this paper is to identify the basic dilemmas and bioengineering associated with the underestimation of biological sex, that is, with the opinion of trans activists that men who are trans women are also women. The author will explain why feminists believe that this approach to the sex/ gender dichotomy is a threat to women's rights in the society.


Author(s):  
Laurensius Arliman S ◽  
Isdal Veri ◽  
Gustiwarni Gustiwarni ◽  
Elfitrayenti Elfitrayenti ◽  
Ade Sakurawati ◽  
...  

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of individual characteristics on the quality of services in Komnas Perempuan, protection of women's rights to service quality in Komnas Perempuan, individual characteristics of human resource competencies in Komnas Perempuan, human resource competencies on service quality in Komnas Perempuan, protection of women's rights to human resource competencies in Komnas Perempuan, human resource competencies in mediating the relationship between characteristics and quality of services in Komnas Perempuan, and human resource competencies mediating the relationship between protecting women's rights and the quality of services protecting women rights in Komnas Perempuan. Based on the formulation, objectives and research hypotheses, the method used in this study is quantitative research with a descriptive approach. Descriptive approach can be interpreted as a research method that seeks. The results found that the individual characteristics variable had a significant effect on the human resource variables of the National Commission on Violence Against Women employees. The variable on the protection of women's rights has a significant effect on the human resource variable of the National Commission's female employees. Individual Characteristics Variable has a significant effect on service quality variables in the National Commission on Violence Against Women. The variable of human resources has a significant effect on the variable service quality of employees. The variable on the protection of women's rights has a significant effect on the variable service quality of employees. 6) Characteristic variable does not significantly influence Service Quality through human resource construct variables. 7) The variable for the protection of women's rights does not significantly influence the Quality of Service through the human resource construct variable. Keywords: Human Resources, Mediation, Komnas Perempuan.


The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the view of many Western commentators, the question of women’s rights is the litmus test for Muslim societies in the age of democracy and liberalism. This book critically re-engages this too simple binary opposition by reframing the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature that examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality, with the goal to challenge the taken-for-granted connection between secularism and democracy and its positive effects on women’s rights.


Author(s):  
Jocelyn Viterna ◽  
José Santos Guardado Bautista ◽  
Silvia Ivette Juarez Barrios ◽  
Alba Evelyn Cortez

States’ governance of gender is not unidirectional. In addition to stagnation and progress, there can be an active reversal of women’s rights. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this chapter investigates the following questions. What are the likely causes of rights reversals? How might rights reversals be more consequential for women’s lives than rights stagnations? And how might studying rights reversals as separate and distinct phenomena improve our scholarly understanding of the relationship between gender and development more broadly? Examining the full range of possible transformations in state governance (reversals, stagnations, and progress), we conclude, results in improved theory and more effective interventions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeni Sri Lestari

This article discusses the theoretical analysis of gender and its relationship to women's development in post-conflict Aceh and the tsunami. This discussion is considered important because of two causes, first the development of women in most countries is always focused on the gender concepts that discuss the position of men and women from the socio-cultural side that influence development in particular in this study is the development of women's rights Aceh . While the development of women is still minimal has led to demands for the fulfillment of women's rights in Aceh. Based on this, then the issues studied in the discussion of this article are  what is meant by gender and how can gender be formed? What is the relationship between gender concepts and women's development process in Aceh ?. The findings of the study found that the concept of gender is an important contributor to the birth of women's power in advocating for the development of their rights in post-conflict Aceh and the tsunami. This is because the concept of gender provides a great opportunity for the existing women's movements in various parts of the world, especially in post-conflict Aceh and tsunami in Aceh. At the end of the study, this article shows that gender plays an important role in the development of women's rights in Aceh.Keywords: Gender, Development of women, Aceh, Conflict and Tsunami.


2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 832-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom

The literature is divided on the nature of the relationship between state-level restriction of religious freedom and women’s rights, as religious freedom can empower members of marginalized groups or advance gender-discriminatory practices. Employing a time-series cross-sectional analysis of data for two decades from 153 nations, this study shows that the relationship between religious regulation and women’s rights depends on the type of regulation, with regulation of the majority religion improving state-level women’s rights and discriminatory regulation specifically targeting minority religions impairing them. Furthermore, the effect of regulation is moderated by the context. Even relatively small regulatory steps promote women’s rights in patriarchal and non-democratic regimes by weakening the religion-state fusion and patriarchal values. However, in liberal democracies, the beneficial effects of regulation wane or even backfire, as religious institutions may rally around the religion. Consequently, this article advocates a multidimensional view of religious freedom, and warns against viewing secularization as inherently promoting gender equality.


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