scholarly journals Perception of gender equality in new media

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kübra Küçükşen

AbstractIntroduction : Social gender is a concept that is used to describe the roles to be fulfilled, behavioral patterns and duties and responsibilities expected from males and females in socialization process according to the culture of the society where they live in different from biological gender. Media is a significant tool for determination and internalization of social gender roles. In parallel with social change and transformation, the change had in mass communication tools become effective in every field. New communication aspect called as new media provide opportunity for individuals to express themselves and present their opinions on every issue freely different from other mass communication tools.Methods : In this study, it was aimed to investigate the comments made on the concepts of "gender equality" and "gender inequality" on the social sharing sites named Ekşi Sözlük and Uludağ Sözlük. The comments made over the concepts of “social gender equality” and “social gender inequality” in web site called “Ekşi Sözlük” and “Uludağ Sözlük” were reviewed during to 1 June- 15 September 2015 in this study and it was targeted to research the perception of social gender. For analyzing data, content analyzis was applied to comments.  Results :In the study, 105 comments made on Ekşi Sözlük and 39 comments made on Uludağ Sözlük in regard to the subject matter were categorized and analyzed as "gender equality/inequality" and "gender roles". According to the data attained from analysis of the study, as opposed to conventional media, it is seen that the comments made on gender are quite varied. Besides such comments which reduce women merely to a body, insult them, assert that they lack the knowledge, skills and competence for existing in the public sphere, comments exceeding the equalitarian viewpoint on the subject, grounding on justice and equity have been identified.Discussion : Reflections of the conventional patriarchal mentality are evidently seen in the comments on Ekşi Sözlük and Uludağ Sözlük. Being an environment where an issue is discussed by people in several numbers and having quite different opinions in different perspectives, social networking sites provide an important source of knowledge to the forms of peoples’ understanding and interpretation of social life. According to the data obtained in the research, the perception of social gender has still been produced in new media. However, it can be said that social gender perception is directed through the course where the understanding of “difference is not inequality” with an upper point of view exceeding the concepts of equality and inequality is grounded on in new media despite adopting an opponent discourse on the contrary to mainstream media.

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zafer Uzun ◽  
Sezgin Erdem ◽  
Kadir Güç ◽  
Ayşenur Merve Şafak Uzun ◽  
Elif Erdem

Sex has been the most important criteria when categorizing and differentiating individuals. While the concept of sex is used to describe the biological side of being a man or woman, the concept of gender refers to the expectations and meanings formed by the society and culture. In this respect, passive roles are thought suitable for women in the social life while men have more active roles. Socialization agents, such as family, media, peer groups and education are playing an active role in transferring the codes related to gender roles. The aim of this research is to test the effectiveness of gender education on the attitudes towards gender perception and gender roles. In accordance with this purpose, an experimental study was designed as a part of the protocol called “Providing Gender Equality, Strengthening Institutional Capacity while Fighting with Violence Against Women, Enhancing Cooperation and Coordination” which was conducted between the Ministry of Turkish National Defense and the Ministry of Family and Social Policies. And an education (Gender Equality and Fighting with Violence Against Women) was given to the research group consisting of 23 participants. In order to collect data, we used Gender Perception Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale. As a result of the study, firstly the education given to the participants raised their score of gender perceptions and attitudes towards gender roles significantly. It also increased the mean score of men much more than that of women. And after the training, the initial difference between the mean scores of men and women almost disappeared. It was seen that the training increased the final test mean scores of married individuals significantly. After the training, the mean scores of both women and men increased. ÖzetBireyleri, kategorilere ayırmak ve farklılaştırmak için kullanılan ölçütlerden en önemlisi cinsiyet olmuştur. Cinsiyet (sex) kavramı, kadın ya da erkek olmanın biyolojik yönünü ifade etmekte iken, toplumsal cinsiyet (gender) terimi, toplumun ve kültürün yüklediği anlamlara ve beklentilere atıfta bulunmaktadır. Toplumsal hayatta kadınlara pasif, edilgen roller uygun görülürken; erkeklere aktif, etken roller atfedilmektedir. Aile, medya, arkadaş grubu ve eğitim gibi toplumsallaşma ajanları ise toplumsal cinsiyet rollerine ilişkin kodların aktarılmasında etkin bir rol almaktadır. Bu araştırma ile her geçen gün artan toplumsal cinsiyet eşitsizliği ve ayrımcılığını önleme yönünde politikalara öncü olmak için verilen eğitimlerin, toplumsal cinsiyet algısına ve toplumsal cinsiyet rollerine ilişkin tutumlar üzerindeki etkinliğinin sınanması amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda Millî Savunma Bakanlığı ile Aile ve Sosyal Politikalar Bakanlığı arasında yapılan “Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliğinin Sağlanması ve Kadına Yönelik Şiddetle Mücadelede Kurumsal Kapasitenin Güçlendirilmesi, İşbirliği ve Eşgüdümün Artırılmasına Dair Protokol” kapsamında verilen “Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği ve Kadına Yönelik Şiddetle Mücadele Eğitici Eğitimi ”ne katılan 23 katılımcı araştırma grubuna dâhil edilerek deneysel bir çalışma yürütülmüştür. Verilerin toplanmasında Toplumsal Cinsiyet Algısı (TCA) ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rolleri Tutum (TCRT) ölçekleri kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonucunda ilk olarak çalışma grubuna verilen eğitimin katılımcıların toplumsal cinsiyet algılarında ve toplumsal cinsiyet rollerine ilişkin tutumların ortalamalarında anlamlı derecede yükseltmiştir. İkinci olarak, çalışma grubuna verilen eğitim, erkeklerin ortalamalarını çok daha fazla arttırmış ve eğitim sonucunda kadın ve erkeklerin ortalamaları birbirine son derece yaklaşmıştır. Bunun yanı sıra verilen eğitim evli bireylerin son test ortalamalarını çok daha fazla arttırdığı görülmüştür. Son olarak verilen eğitim sonrasında hem kadınların hem de erkeklerin ortalamaları yükselmiştir.


This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.


Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 480
Author(s):  
Frank G. Bosman

The story collection known in the West as The Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights, is famous, among other things, for its erotic playfulness. This eroticism was (and is) one of the key reasons for its continuous popularity after Antoine Galland’s French translation in 1704. The Arabian Nights includes, besides traditional, heterosexual acts, play, and desires, examples of homoerotic playfulness—even though we must tread lightly when using such Western concepts with an oriental text body such as this one. The homoerotic playfulness of The Arabian Nights is the subject of this article. By making use of a text-immanent analysis of two of the Nights’ stories—of Qamar and Budûr and of Alî Shâr and Zumurrud—the author of this article focuses on the reversal of common gender roles, acts of cross-dressing, and, of course, homoerotic play. He will argue that these stories provide a narrative safe environment in which the reader is encouraged to “experiment” with non-normative sexual and gender orientations, leaving the dominant status quo effectively and ultimately unchallenged, thus preventing the (self-proclaimed) defenders of that status quo from feeling threatened enough to actively counter-act the experiment.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth

<p>Visual expression is something un-denayable in social life because the viasuality is the expression of the social life. This article has the purpose to explore how visual expression of women resistance toward gender inequality. Applying qualitative research with the method of documentation study this article in detail analyses the interpretation of religious text as the source of inequality and gender reality in social context. It is revealed that visual expression of the poster suggesting to treat men and women respectfully is the resistance toward religious text interpretation which is inequally treat men and women.</p>


LITERA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Harti Widyastuti

This study aims to describe Javanese women’s personality in the perspective of feminism and gender equality and inequality in Serat Suluk Residriya and Serat Wulang Putri. It employed the qualitative research design and modern philology. The findings are as follows. Javanese women’s personality in Serat Suluk Residriya includes their images. Gender inequality in Serat Suluk Residriya includes subordination, woman stereotype, rights to use but not to possess, women as sexual objects, and polygamy. Gender inequality in Serat Wulang Putri shows that women must have a lot of children. Gender equality in Sera Wulang Putrishows that men and women have equal rights to be ascetic, knowledgeable, skillful, brave and great, and wealthy.


Author(s):  
Safak Oz Aktepe

In this chapter, the author aims to present, through a review of literature, that the gender equality assumption of the human resource management (HRM) approach is not taken for granted. It seems there exist two sides of the same coin, one representing the HRM approach and the other representing the gendered approach to HRM practices. This chapter reviews HRM practices in work organizations as the potential facilitator of gender inequalities in organizations. In addition, the contentious function of HRM practices in maintaining gender inequalities within work organizations is reviewed. In spite of knowing the implication of HRM practices on being a gender-diverse organization, there remain few studies on the relationship between HRM practices and gender inequality in work organizations. Such research will add a different perspective to HRM practices and contribute to the awareness related to the gendered nature of organizations and their organizational practices.


2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 649-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdel-Khalek Ahmed M. ◽  
Bader M. Alansari

This study investigated gender differences in anxiety among volunteer undergraduates recruited from 10 Arab countries; Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Oman, Egypt, Syria,Lebanon, Palestine (Nablus and Gaza), Jordan and Iraq (N = 3,064). The Kuwait University Anxiety Scale (KUAS) was used in its Arabic form. It was found that females had higher mean anxiety scores than did their male counterparts in all 10 countries. However, significant differences were found in 7 out of the 10 countries. The salient gender differences were interpreted in the light of a socialization process; especially sex-typing and gender roles.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-190
Author(s):  
Katalin Tardos ◽  
Veronika Paksi

Understanding the impact of various diversity management (DM) practices in terms of their effectiveness in achieving desired outcomes within the organisation is a prevalent research gap in the general DM literature and the new stream of literature on DM in the research, development, and innovation (RDI) sector. Therefore, this article reviews the literature on gender diversity practices in RDI workplaces and how DM contributes to gender equality outcomes. For this purpose, we introduced a conceptual framework to demonstrate the interrelatedness of the forms and reasons for gender inequality, and the choice of DM practices and their outcomes. Moreover, we compiled an extensive list of DM practices for practitioners related to how to address the different forms and underlying reasons for gender inequality. Finally, by comparing the literature on DM outcomes in the business and the RDI sector, we concluded that research on measuring the outcomes of DM practices was less developed for RDI organisations, but gaps of knowledge on the outcomes of DM practices prevailed in both sectors. Organisational contexts in which specific diversity practices were implemented had a significant role in determining their effectiveness,highlighting the relevance of the institutionalist theory.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Siti Malaiha Dewi

<p>One that perpetuates gender inequality is education at various levels.<br />Then break ing the early gender bias chain through gender responsive learning<br />at Pre-school (PAUD) on the agenda are not inevitable. Manipulating gender<br />responsive learning can be taught in two aspects: teaching materials and teachinglearning process. The subject matter development is done by inserting a gender quality message into the subject matter. While the development of teaching and learning activities is carried out since teachers set instructional design models to the classroom learning implementation process. They are packaged so that the<br />gender equality implementation could be realized.</p>


PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0249459
Author(s):  
Hayk Amirkhanyan ◽  
Michał Wiktor Krawczyk ◽  
Maciej Wilamowski

Using a large dataset of marathon runners, we estimate country- and gender-specific proxies for overconfidence. Subsequently, we correlate them with a number of indices, including various measures of gender equality. We find that in less gender-equal countries both males and females tend to be more self-confident than in more equal countries. While a substantial gender gap in overconfidence is observed, it only correlates with some sub-indices of gender equality. We conclude that there is likely a weak relationship between OC gender gap and gender inequality.


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