Gender Inequality and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Inequality

Women Entrepreneurs Address Poverty and Social Change Through Empowering Grassroots Initiatives in Tanzania

2019 ◽  
pp. 1371-1388
Author(s):  
Ladislaus M. Semali
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Grassroots Initiatives ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Grassroots Level

This chapter investigates the story of Jitahidi women in Tanzania to understand the dynamics of empowerment at the grassroots level. The stories chronicled in this chapter present self-reliance events, motivations, and practical initiatives of a small entrepreneurial group of women, organized with shoe-string budgets. Their goal was to establish a women's collective strength that could unleash women's lives from oppressive economic regimes, patriarchal traditions, gender inequality, gender discrimination, and socio-historical legacies that exploit women everywhere. The study revealed that dialogical way of thinking and underlying conventions wrapped-up in Women in Development activities in Tanzania were critical in providing the vision that guided the Jitahidi group to create a space for transformation and potential to empower women so as to define their own educational needs and create political organizations within the local community.

The Millennial/Gen Z Leftists Are Emerging: Are Sociologists Ready for Them?

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-427
Author(s):  
Elaine Bell Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Do So

Sociology is being challenged by the new generation of students and scholars who have another view of society. Millennial/Gen Zs are the most progressive generation since the 1960s. We have had many opportunities to discuss and imagine power, diversity, and social change when we teach them in our classes or attend their campus events. Some Millennial/Gen Z believe, especially those in academia, that social scientists are tied to old theories and ideologies about race and gender, among other inconsistencies. These old ideas do not resonate with their views regarding equity. Millennials are not afraid to challenge the status quo. They do so already by supporting multiple gender and race identities. Several questions come to mind. How do we as sociologists with our sense of history and other issues such as racial and gender inequality help them along the way? Are we ready for this generation? Are they ready for us?

scholarly journals Women, protest and social change in Julie Okoh’s Edewede

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-40
Author(s):  
Margaret Fafa Nutsukpo
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Female Circumcision ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
African Women ◽  
African Society ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
African Women Writers

The 21st century African society is rife with oppressive and retrogressive customs and values that oppress and subjugate women. As a result, African women writers have embraced literary forms and subjects that highlight these issues and advocate for their elimination from society. Among these writers is Julie Okoh, a playwright, who projects her concerns about the dangers of female circumcision in her play, Edewede. Using feminism as a theoretical framework, this article interrogates Okoh’s adoption of the principles of two opposing feminist perspectives─African and radical feminism─with a view to revealing their impact in rousing her female characters from subservience, ignorance and passivity, to revolt against their oppression through social protest. It is discovered that education, consciousness-raising, sisterhood, female solidarity and resilience are powerful tools for women’s empowerment in the play. It is recommended that women should not be context bound in their choice and expression of feminist perspectives, strategies or weapons in the fight against gender inequality, oppression and exploitation; they should be open to contemporary avenues and progressive choices that will pave the way to their emancipation and social change.

scholarly journals The High-hanging Fruit of the Gender Revolution: A Model of Social Reproduction and Social Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-61
Author(s):  
David Calnitsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Equilibrium Path ◽  
The Social ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
And Gender

This article proposes an abstract sociological model of stable patriarchal social relations and feminist social change. I describe a patriarchal equilibrium of gender inequality and propose an approach for thinking about how various kinds of interventions can short-circuit the system, pushing it onto a new equilibrium path. In particular, I focus on possible interventions into parental leave policy, describing their social structural and cultural ramifications as well as a range of objections to them. However, more important than the specific interventions proposed is the general model itself, which depicts reinforcing structures of patriarchal culture, gender inequality in labor markets, and gender inequality in the home—and moreover, how this model can evolve. It describes a feedback loop that can lock structures of gender inequality in place but also provides a means for considering the spaces available to both blunt the social reproduction of gender inequality and reinforce “genderless” social relations.

Value Creation Through Social Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 333-351
Author(s):  
Nurgül Keleş Tayşir
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
The Social

The social entrepreneur's role in creating social change has been emphasized in the literature. These individuals offer new solutions to society's problems and by doing that they transform the existing institutions. However, there is limited information how these change agents generate value and cause a transformation in society. This chapter tries to identify how a social entrepreneur, individually, has a potential to cause social change. In order to give information about the process of value creation an Ashoka Fellow from Turkey has been selected. Gender inequality and violence against women might be one of the important issues that have to be solved in the country. The selected fellow empowers women by creating social value and advancing social change in Turkey.

Masculinity, Fun, and Social Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-124
Author(s):  
C.J. Pascoe
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
And Gender

Raewyn Connell’s theorizing in The Men and the Boys shaped my analysis of young men’s engagements with masculinity, and my thinking about gender inequality more generally. The claims about relationships between global inequalities and gender relations in that text shifted my focus away from types of boys—gay boys, straight boys, nerdy boys, popular boys—to a focus on gender relations among boys themselves, processes by which boys both robbed others of precious indicators of masculinity and attempted to claim said indicators for themselves. This shift highlights the centrality of interaction, practice, and institutions to gender inequality among American teenagers. The essay concludes by discussing how Connell’s focus on global inequalities provided a foundation from which to argue that many of the same gendered dynamics we see among American teenagers—what I came to call masculinity contests—are also deeply woven into political discourses and practices.

Social change and masculinities: exploring favourable spaces?

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110482
Author(s):  
Pam Papadelos ◽  
Chris Beasley ◽  
Mandy Treagus
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

Understanding social change remains a challenge in the social sciences. This has resonance when considering the continuing significance of gender inequality in Australian society despite decades of political and social reform. Our aim is to elaborate a framework regarding social change which engages with major debates in masculinity studies, with applications beyond gender and masculinity. The potential of favourable spaces for social innovation is explored by outlining a dynamic taxonomy of masculinity and change. This framing of social change is located in a material social context involving specific actors. While popular media accounts of boys’ schooling and the specific instance of private boys’ schools indicate the maintenance of hegemonic norms upholding masculine dominance, we investigate illustrative instances of Catholic boys’ schools committed to gender equality. Yet, constructions of masculinity shift between and/or incorporate hegemonic styles and gender equitable styles, even in situations where gender equality is publicly promoted.

Masculinity, Fun, and Social Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-124
Author(s):  
C.J. Pascoe
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
And Gender

Raewyn Connell’s theorizing in The Men and the Boys shaped my analysis of young men’s engagements with masculinity, and my thinking about gender inequality more generally. The claims about relationships between global inequalities and gender relations in that text shifted my focus away from types of boys—gay boys, straight boys, nerdy boys, popular boys—to a focus on gender relations among boys themselves, processes by which boys both robbed others of precious indicators of masculinity and attempted to claim said indicators for themselves. This shift highlights the centrality of interaction, practice, and institutions to gender inequality among American teenagers. The essay concludes by discussing how Connell’s focus on global inequalities provided a foundation from which to argue that many of the same gendered dynamics we see among American teenagers—what I came to call masculinity contests—are also deeply woven into political discourses and practices.

Tradition and the Veil: Female Status in Tunisia and Algeria

1981 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Marshall ◽  
Randall G. Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Female Status ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Veil

Theories of modernisation and social change have been increasingly challenged during the past decade by events in the Middle East and other areas of the developing world. Leaders of oil-rich nations are choosing to industrialise but not to westernise, and Islamic revivals are shaping new patterns of political and social development. For example, improvements in female status can no longer be regarded as the inevitable concomitants of industrialisation; to the contrary, gender inequality may actually be exacerbated by national resurgences of religious and cultural traditions which often accompany planned social change.1

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