scholarly journals Empowering young immigrant girls in Canada through the ‘Girls’ Voices’ Curriculum: A qualitative study

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 799
Author(s):  
Salima Meherali ◽  
Mehnaz Rehmani ◽  
Arzoo Rafiq ◽  
Neelam Punjani ◽  
Helen Vallianatos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Immigrant Adolescents ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Immigrant Adolescent ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Promote Gender Equality

Background: Gender inequality is a global issue. In Canada, 70% of women experience some form of inequality in their lifetime. Immigrant adolescents in Canada make up a substantial proportion of newcomers, and immigrant girls face the threat of subjugation and oppression, which has a significant impact on their health, development, and economic outcomes as well as gender inequality. Research on girls’ empowerment and resilience-building programs and interventions is virtually nonexistent. In this project, we implemented the ‘Girls’ Voices’ Curriculum. The aim of this project was to engage and empower South Asian (SA) immigrant adolescent girls and to promote gender equality in Canada. Methods: This study utilized a qualitative descriptive design. Pre- and post-curriculum implementation focus group discussions were conducted. Results: A total of 16 adolescent girls ranging from 11 to 18 years of age participated in this study. The participants described challenges many young girls face in relation to gender inequality such as gender discrimination, gendered stereotyping, barriers to education, etc. The ‘Girls’ Voices’ Curriculum allowed participants to highlight and reflect on the various problems faced by SA immigrant adolescents in their communities. The participants learned to examine these challenges through a variety of engaging activities to identify their root cause, effects and propose solutions to bring long-lasting change. The curriculum equipped them with useful tools such as decision-makers maps and advocacy skills to educate decision-makers by creating and delivering powerful messages influenced by personal stories and evidence-based literature.  Conclusion: The study provided significant insight into understanding the diverse challenges encountered by SA immigrant adolescent girls in Canada and linking them to the effectiveness of the ‘Girls’ Voices’ Curriculum. The girl-focused development programs that emphasize developing self-confidence, communication skills, problem-solving skills, and decision making are effective in empowering the socially deprived adolescent girls locally and in the global context.

Invisible Barriers, Undeclared Wars

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Lina Kurchenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Measurable Factors

Despite the indisputable progress of gender equality in academia in recent decades, the relative stagnancy of women's participation in decision making and resource distribution remains a global issue. There is growing evidence that a large part of gender inequality in higher education and research cannot be explained by explicit measurable factors. Male bias is encoded in societal and academic culture and to a significant extent determines subconscious choices and decisions benefiting men. This chapter analyses cultural reasons behind gender inequality and typifies them in a form of a matrix based on gendered attitudes to women's leadership in academia. The analysis of typical resistances reveals psychological and social mechanisms of subtle gender discrimination and is followed by a set of proposed preventive measures.

scholarly journals PROSES RESILIENSI PADA REMAJA AKHIR PEREMPUAN YANG PERNAH MENGALAMI BULLYING VERBAL KARENA OBESITAS

MANASA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Cicilia Ajeng Yunisca ◽  
Dhevy Setya Wibawa
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Resilience Process ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Verbal Bullying

Bullying may occur in the form verbal bullying. It often happens in late adolescent girls whosedifferent physical appearance compared to others, such as obesity. Bullying can negatively affectindividuals who experience it, both in long and short period of time. However, with the ability tobounce back from negative situations, an individual can recover from the adverse experiencecaused by verbal bullying. The aim of the study was resilience process using qualitative methodswith homogenous sampling to select the participants. Researcher used semi structured interviewstowards two late adolescent girls aged 18 to 21 years old who experienced verbal bullying becauseof obesity during the middle school (Sekolah Menengah Pertama) and high school (SekolahMenengah Atas). The results showed that two participants experienced negative effects because ofverbal bullying especially in their self-confidence and the ability to develop their skills. Allparticipants could adapt positively by involving protective factors from the environment andinternal resilience factors. Environment factors that helped the participants were from theirparents and friends. Internal factors that helped participants including spirituality, cognitive,physical, social and emotional factors. Both participants showed resilient integration as theirpositive adaptation. This can be seen from the ability to increase environmental resources bydeveloping new social support, increasing internal resources within themselves and developcoping and problem solving skills.

Positive Duties and Gender Equality

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colm O'cinneide
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Positive Duty ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Substantive Equality ◽  
Promote Gender Equality ◽  
Positive Duties ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First Time

The imposition since 1998 of a variety of positive equality duties upon public authorities has attracted comparatively little academic attention. However, these duties are a central part of current government equality initiatives, increasingly constitute a major part of the work of the UK's equality commissions, and have been described as an essential part of a new ‘fourth generation’ of equality legislation. It now appears likely that a positive duty to promote gender equality will soon be imposed upon public authorities, which will complement similar race and disability duties. Will the introduction of this positive gender equality duty add to, detract or complement existing statutory provisions? Given the danger that ‘soft law’ initiatives may undermine existing anti-discrimination controls, will the duty provide a clear steer to public authorities, or will it lack teeth, substance and direction, and possibly even prove counter-productive? Such positive duties are designed to compensate for the limitations of existing anti-discrimination law, by requiring the taking of positive steps to promote equality and eliminate discrimination, rather than just compelling a reactive compliance with the letter of the (equality) law. The justifications in principle for the introduction of such duties are strong: for the first time, the introduction of a positive gender duty will impose a clear legislative obligation upon public authorities to adopt a substantive equality approach and to take proactive action to redress patterns of disadvantage linked to gender discrimination. Serious concerns do however exist as to the extent to which such duties can be enforced, and the danger that they will simply encourage greater bureaucratic activity at the expense of real change. The proposed gender duty, as with the other duties that have been introduced, is no panacea. Nevertheless, it does constitute a good start, can serve a useful function by empowering public authorities to take positive action, and if effectively used will be a very valuable point of pressure to push for better things.

scholarly journals Gender discrimination, victimisation and women's mental health

2018 ◽  
Vol 213 (6) ◽  
pp. 682-684
Author(s):  
Georgina M. Hosang ◽  
Kamaldeep Bhui
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Women’S Mental Health ◽  
Women's Mental Health ◽  
The Impact

SummaryGender inequality and discrimination, as well as violence and victimisation towards women, have recently hit the headlines creating a media furore. We provide a timely discussion surrounding the impact of these issues on women's mental health and a discussion of the role of psychiatry in this context.Declaration of interestK.B. is the editor for the British Journal of Psychiatry but has not played a role in the decision to accept this editorial for publication in this journal. G.H. has no conflict of interest to declare.

scholarly journals Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model

2021 ◽  
pp. 030913332110650
Author(s):  
Edward Rollason ◽  
Pammi Sinha ◽  
Louise J Bracken
Keyword(s):  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Water Transfer ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Interbasin Water Transfer ◽  
Water Scarce

Water scarcity is a global issue, affecting in excess of four billion people. Interbasin Water Transfer (IBWT) is an established method for increasing water supply by transferring excess water from one catchment to another, water-scarce catchment. The implementation of IBWT peaked in the 1980s and was accompanied by a robust academic debate of its impacts. A recent resurgence in the popularity of IBWT, and particularly the promotion of mega-scale schemes, warrants revisiting this technology. This paper provides an updated review, building on previously published work, but also incorporates learning from schemes developed since the 1980s. We examine the spatial and temporal distribution of schemes and their drivers, review the arguments for and against the implementation of IBWT schemes and examine conceptual models for assessing IBWT schemes. Our analysis suggests that IBWT is growing in popularity as a supply-side solution for water scarcity and is likely to represent a key tool for water managers into the future. However, we argue that IBWT cannot continue to be delivered through current approaches, which prioritise water-centric policies and practices at the expense of social and environmental concerns. We critically examine the Socio-Ecological Systems and Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus models as new conceptual models for conceptualising and assessing IBWT. We conclude that neither model offers a comprehensive solution. Instead, we propose an enhanced WEF model (eWEF) to facilitate a more holistic assessment of how these mega-scale engineering interventions are integrated into water management strategies. The proposed model will help water managers, decision-makers, IBWT funders and communities create more sustainable IBWT schemes.

scholarly journals Statistical Discrimination and the Rationalization of Stereotypes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
András Tilcsik
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Statistical Discrimination ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Managerial Experience ◽  
Scientific Framework

The theory of statistical discrimination is a dominant social scientific framework for understanding discrimination in labor markets. To date, the literature has treated this theory as a model that merely explains employer behavior. This article contends that the idea of statistical discrimination, rather than simply providing an explanation, can lead people to view social stereotyping as useful and acceptable and thus help rationalize and justify discriminatory decisions. A preregistered survey experiment with more than 2,000 participants who had managerial experience shows that exposure to statistical discrimination theory strengthened people’s belief in the accuracy of stereotypes, their acceptance of stereotyping, and the extent to which they engaged in gender discrimination in a hiring simulation. Reading a critical commentary on the theory mitigated these effects. These findings imply that theories of discrimination, and the language associated with them, can rationalize—or challenge the rationality of—stereotypes and discrimination and, as a result, shape the attitudes and actions of decision-makers in labor markets.

Gender inequality in the risk of violence: material deprivation is linked to higher risk for adolescent girls

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 811-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Nasr ◽  
V. Sivarajasingam ◽  
S. Jones ◽  
J. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Material Deprivation

Promoting Academic Engagement Among Immigrant Adolescents Through School-Family-Community Collaboration

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X1001400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carola Suárez-Orozco ◽  
Marie Onaga ◽  
Cécile de Lardemelle
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Community School ◽  
Ecological Framework ◽  
Community Collaboration ◽  
Immigrant Adolescents ◽  
Immigrant Adolescent ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Academic Trajectories ◽  
Over Time

Schools are receiving students of immigrant origin in unprecedented numbers. Using an ecological framework, the authors reviewed the community, school, familial, and individual challenges that immigrant adolescent students encounter. They examined cognitive, relational, and behavioral dimensions of student engagement as well as culturally sensitive strategies for parental involvement. Varying academic trajectories were identified revealing that although some students performed at high or improving levels over time, others showed diminishing performance. The implications for school counselors’ roles in school-family-community collaboration and intervention and practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Splitting and blaming: The psychic life of neoliberal executive women

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren T Baker ◽  
Elisabeth K Kelan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Executive Women ◽  
Psychic Life ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
Psychosocial Approaches

The aim of the article is to explore the psychic life of executive women under neoliberalism using psychosocial approaches. The article shows how, despite enduring unfair treatment and access to opportunities, many executive women remain emotionally invested in upholding the neoliberal ideal that if one perseveres, one shall be successful, regardless of gender. Drawing on psychosocial approaches, we explore how the accounts given by some executive women of repudiation, as denying gender inequality, and individualization, as subjects completely agentic, are underpinned by the unconscious, intertwined processes of splitting and blaming. Women sometimes split off undesirable aspects of the workplace, which repudiates gender inequality, or blame other women, which individualizes failure and responsibility for change. We explain that splitting and blaming enable some executive women to manage the anxiety evoked from threats to the neoliberal ideal of the workplace. This article thereby makes a contribution to existing postfeminist scholarship by integrating psychosocial approaches to the study of the psychic life of neoliberal executive women, by exploring why they appear unable to engage directly with and redress instances of gender discrimination in the workplace.

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