Affirmative action and women participation to the job market

In Indonesia, decentralization and democratization have prompted the issue of women’s representation to be brought upon local and small-scale communities. One of the examples is the Indonesian Law No.6/2014 (the Village Act) in which the affirmative action for women’s participation is mandated in village’s representative body. Later, the same action is implemented in the urban counterpart to village’s rural that is Kelurahan, with the same Act –mutatis mutandis-. This article explores the implementation of Law No. 6/2014’s affirmative action to the kelurahan’s representative body, the Community Empowerment Institution or Lembaga Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Kelurahan (LPMK) in Salatiga. Acknowledging that there are fundamental differences between village and kelurahan, we found that such a maneuver has caused policy and practical inconsistencies where gender equality clause is omitted and the organization’s structure remains unreformed. Thus, it seems that the implementation of affirmative action for women participation in kelurahan’s politics has been withered before blooming.

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Hiring The Handicapped: The Role of the Human Factors Practitioner

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1071181381025001197 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 759-761

Author(s):

Jack R. Ellner ◽

Henry E. Bender

Keyword(s):

Affirmative Action ◽

Human Factors ◽

Job Market

A study performed for American Management Associations to study the attitudes of industrial and business employers to affirmative action programs concerning the hiring of the handicapped revealed a number of areas where human factors practitioners may exercise their unique talents in mainstreaming the handicapped into the job market.

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Universidade e mercado de trabalho: a trajetória social dos alunos cotistas egressos da Faculdade de Serviço Social da Uerj | University and the labor market: the social trajectory of quota graduate students from the College of Social Work at the State University of Rio de Janeiro

Revista Em Pauta ◽

10.12957/rep.2019.42538 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 (43) ◽

Author(s):

Clarissa Fernandes do Rêgo Barros

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Social Work ◽

Affirmative Action ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

The State ◽

State University ◽

Job Market ◽

Affirmative Action Policy ◽

The Social ◽

The University

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar os resultados da pesquisa qualitativa realizada no doutorado, relacionando educação, política de ação afirmativa na universidade e inserção no mercado de trabalho com 11 alunos cotistas egressos da Faculdade de Serviço Social da Uerj. Os dados apresentados resultam da análise da trajetória social dos estudantes cotistas ao longo da formação na Educação Básica, do ingresso e conclusão na universidade e da inserção no mercado de trabalho. Assim, buscou-se identificar as particularidades, dificuldades, conquistas e possíveis mudanças socioeconômicas alcançadas a partir das políticas de ação afirmativa, tendo como base os princípios normativos de igualdade substancial, justiça social e de eventual mobilidade social, derivadas da profissionalização e do alcance de melhores colocações no mercado de trabalho para este grupo étnico-social específico beneficiado pelas cotas na Uerj.Palavras-Chave: educação; trabalho; política de ação afirmativa; ensino superior. Abstract – This article aims to present the results of the qualitative research carried out in the doctorate’s research connecting education, affirmative action policy in the university, and the insertion in the job market with 11 students from the College of Social Work at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj). The data presented is based on the analysis of the social trajectory of the quota students along their formation in basic education, access to the university, graduation, and insertion in the labor market. In this way, it is sought to identify the peculiarities, difficulties, achievements, and possible socioeconomic changes achieved from the affirmative action policies, based on the normative principles of substantial equality, social justice, and possible social mobility, derived from the professionalization and the reach of better job market placements for this specific social ethnic group benefited by the quotas at Uerj.Keywords: education; labor; affirmative action policy; higher education.

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Homophily in the Job Market and No-Go Results for Affirmative Action

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3053853 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Steven Kerr

Keyword(s):

Affirmative Action ◽

Job Market

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Speaking in one voice: the response of higher education to affirmative action threats

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.1002/j.0022-0337.1999.63.10.tb03312.x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 63 (10) ◽

pp. 753-758

Author(s):

H Garza

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Affirmative Action

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Affirmative Action and Leadership Attitudes in Brazilian Women Managers

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000039 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 139-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gazi Islam ◽

Sarah E. S. Zilenovsky

Keyword(s):

Affirmative Action ◽

Latin American ◽

Women Managers ◽

Psychological Effects ◽

Preferential Selection ◽

Justice Perceptions ◽

First Time ◽

The Relationship

This note examines the relationship between affirmative action (AA) program perceptions and women’s self-ascribed capacity and desire to become leaders. We propose that women who believe that their organization implements a program of preferential selection toward women will experience negative psychological effects leading to lowered self-expectations for leadership, but that this effect will be moderated by their justice perceptions of AA programs. We test this proposition empirically for the first time with a Latin American female sample. Among Brazilian women managers, desire but not self-ascribed capacity to lead was reduced when they believed an AA policy was in place. Both desire’s and capacity’s relationships with belief in an AA policy were moderated by justice perceptions.

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