scholarly journals A Study of Gender Inequality in India

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Priti Jha ◽  
Niti Nagar
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Economic Issues

This study considers the gender inequality that exists among every region, social class and prevents the growth of Indian economy from improving the lives of Indian people. The reality of gender inequality in India is very complex and diversified, because it exists in every field like education, employment opportunities, income, health, cultural issues, social issues, economic issues etc. An attempt has been made to find out those factors which are responsible for this problem in India. So, this paper highlights the multi-dimensional context of gender inequalities prevalent in India. Overall, the study indicates the inequality in economic, social, cultural and legal biasness which are of a great challenge for policy-makers and social scientists to establish proper equality in the entire social field. The researchers have tried to suggest some relevant strategies and policies implication for reducing this gender inequality and to promote the dignified position for Indian women.

Culture and context matter: gender in international business and management

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Eden ◽  
Susan Forquer Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
International Business ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
Very High

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to argue that culture and context (policy and environment) are key factors affecting gender inequalities within and across countries. Design/methodology/approach This paper applies conceptual and descriptive statistics. Findings The authors found evidence of increasing gender equality in the workplace, but only for rich countries. Gender inequalities persist in the poorest countries, and the gap between rich and poor countries appears to be widening not narrowing. Research limitations/implications This paper demonstrates the need for a comprehensive research program on gender and international business. Practical implications The authors provided useful statistics that could possibly be picked up by newspapers. The paper also highlights the need for a more sustained research program on gender and development. Social implications This paper demonstrates that the public perception of increasing gender equality applies only in very high development (rich) countries. In fact, gender inequality rises as economic development levels decline across countries, and the gap between very high and low countries has widened over the past 15 years. Originality/value The empirical findings with respect to gender inequality across United Nations Development Program country categories over time are, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, novel and original. Relating the gender inequality gap to culture and context highlights the roles that social issues and the environment play in affecting gender inequality across countries and across time.

Contextualising women’s workplace activism in post-war England

2019 ◽  
pp. 26-55
Author(s):  
Jonathan Moss
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
Post War

This chapter provides an overview of how women’s growing presence in the workforce was understood by contemporaries. It demonstrates that female workers, trade unions, social scientists, and WLM activists were increasingly drawing public attention to the poor conditions and inequalities working-class women were likely to experience in the workplace. At the same time, there was a growing commitment from policy makers and the main political parties to understanding and addressing gender inequality as a political issue. This chapter argues the growing politicisation of gender inequality in the workplace was part of a broader transition in public understandings of gender roles taking place in post-war Britain. It concludes that women’s workplace activism should be understood within this context.

scholarly journals Constraints And Challenges Faced By Women Entrepreneurs In Emerging Market Economy And The Way Forward

JWEE ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Reena Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Psychological Issues ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
The Impact

It is well acknowledged fact thatentrepreneurship is an engine of economic growth and social development. Women entrepreneurship though has been growing around the world, but the evidences suggest that women entrepreneurscontinue to be adversely affected by the numerous socio-economic issues in the male dominated business societies, which hugely undermine the morale of women entrepreneurs.The current study was taken up to investigate the working of twenty sevenwomen entrepreneurs working on micro and small levels, in different areas of Uttar Pradesh (India), who have created employment opportunities for thousands of people living at grass root level and also created new prospects for the rural artisans in theirregion.  The study aims to explore the various the obstacles faced by the women entrepreneurs working in different areas of Uttar Pradesh (India),analyze the impact of the prevailing constraints and challenges on the progress of these women entrepreneurs, and recommend the aspects that he to be looked into by the policy makers, to address the issues and challenges. It is also anticipated that the findings will bring to light valuable insights, which might be used by the policymakers, organization and institutions who intend to assist more and more entrepreneurs, especially women entrepreneurs, to venture into businesses. The study revealed multifarious constraints and challenges faced by the women during their entrepreneurial journey. In the current study we have tried to classify these constraints into four broad categories: Socio-Cultural Issues; Economic Issues; Psychological Issues and Managerial Issues.

scholarly journals http://jibas.org/index.php/jibas/article/view/7

JIBAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Fizza Ahmed ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
The Real ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Difficult Situations ◽  
Present World

This research is all about the rights of women. Women in the present world, before and after, in every era of life have suffered through many problems and obstacles. They have been dealing with difficult situations in every aspect of life, educational issues, social issues, cultural issues, economic issues but they have found a useless solution to their issues, instead of focusing on Islam, they have been looking forward towards secular and liberal feminists which don’t even guide them to a nearly sensible solution. Feminism is a present day issue; women and men as well are suffering through. This research is to clearly define them the true importance of women in Islam and that to every problem; Islam gives you the best solution. I have raised this issue to aware the people of the “The Real Feminism”. Being Muslims, it is our duty to make the women realize that what they are doing and what should they do. If the teachings of Islam are being practiced all around the world, there is no gainsaying the fact that the world would witness a peaceful atmosphere and women will realize what true freedom is.

Getting the Ecostructure of Social Science Education Right

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Colander ◽  
Roland Kupers
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Social Science Education ◽  
Policy Frame ◽  
High Level ◽  
Science Training ◽  
Standard Frame

Social policy is, in large part, shaped not in the halls of Congress but in the classrooms around the country where policymakers, academics, and the general public receive their training, and where they have embedded in them the policy frame they use. However, a large separation of humanist and science training has created a standard policy frame that has lost the heart of the humanist. To offset that separation, social scientists with humanist tendencies need more mathematical training, while social scientists with more scientific tendencies need more humanist training. Complexity theory is starting to bring the two back together. By embracing the use of high-level mathematics to analyze issues that are excluded in the standard frame, it reintegrates humanist cultural and social issues back into the policy frame. This chapter reflects on how the education of policy makers might evolve to include the complexity policy frame in its considerations.

Party representation across multiple issue dimensions

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 609-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell J Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Political Extremism ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Party Elites ◽  
European Election ◽  
Party Family ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Very High

Issue congruence between citizens and policy makers should be one of the central aspects of a democratic process. This study uses the 2009 European Election Study to compare the views of citizens and party elites on a diverse set of domestic policy issues and overall Left-Right identities. We find very high levels of congruence for Left-Right positions and socio-economic issues. Parties are less representative of their supporters on the newer cultural issues of immigration and authority, as well as gender issues. National political contexts have limited influence on congruence levels, although some party characteristics such as political extremism or party family are linked to citizen-voter agreement. On the whole, citizens and like-minded parties do connect through the electoral process to a high degree. However, the results also argue for a multidimensional approach to assessing representation to recognize where parties agree and deviate from their supporters.

scholarly journals The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172199563
Author(s):  
Alan Wager ◽  
Tim Bale ◽  
Philip Cowley ◽  
Anand Menon
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Value Differences ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Significant Disagreement ◽  
Party Members ◽  
First Time

Party competition in Great Britain increasingly revolves around social or ‘cultural’ issues as much as it does around the economic issues that took centre stage when class was assumed to be dominant. We use data from surveys of members of parliament, party members and voters to explore how this shift has affected the internal coalitions of the Labour and Conservative Parties – and to provide a fresh test of ‘May’s Law’. We find a considerable disconnect between ‘neoliberal’ Conservative members of parliament and their more centrist voters on economic issues and similarly significant disagreement on cultural issues between socially liberal Labour members of parliament and their more authoritarian voters. We also find differences in both parties between parliamentarians and their grassroots members, albeit that these are much less pronounced. May’s Law, not for the first time, appears not to be borne out in reality.

Gender Norms and Household Labor: Time Use in the Context of Social Class Differentiation in Transitional China

2021 ◽  
pp. 048661342199044
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Zhun Xu
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Market Process ◽  
Nutrition Survey ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transitional China

This paper studies the historical evolution of China’s gender relations through the lens of housework time allocation. In particular, we highlight the role played by social class and income. Drawing upon data from the Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that during the period 1991–2011, being a peasant or earning less than the spouse was increasingly associated with a higher share of housework. The market process appears to have indirectly improved the social status of women (most likely rural women) married to peasant husbands as measured by the former’s declining housework share. Such changes, however, have not challenged traditional patriarchal norms in the countryside and have even facilitated the rise of a new market-based patriarchy. Policy makers should empower women by tackling the different faces of patriarchy as a whole. JEL Classification: B51, J16, P16

scholarly journals What Do Partisan Donors Want?

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
David Broockman ◽  
Neil Malhotra
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Significant Heterogeneity ◽  
Mass Survey ◽  
Independent Dataset ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
Original Survey

Abstract Influential theories indicate concern that campaign donors exert outsized political influence. However, little data have documented what donors actually want from government, and existing research has devoted less attention to donors’ views on individual issues. Findings from an original survey of US donors, including an oversample of the largest donors, and a concurrently fielded mass survey document significant heterogeneity by party and policy domain in how donors’ and citizens’ views diverge. We find that Republican donors are much more conservative than Republican citizens on economic issues, whereas their views are similar on social issues. By contrast, Democratic donors are much more liberal than Democratic citizens on social issues, whereas their views are more similar on economic issues. Both parties’ donors, but especially Democratic donors, are more pro-globalism than their citizen counterparts. We replicate these patterns in an independent dataset. Our findings have important implications for the study of American politics.

scholarly journals Sex and the Fieldwork: Gender, Sexuality, Nationality, and Social Class in Research on European (Heterosexual) Men

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692093896
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Wojnicka
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Multiple Issues ◽  
Men And Masculinities ◽  
Female Researcher ◽  
Tremendous Impact

The overall goal of this article is to make a contribution to the developing, but not yet sufficiently explored, issue of methodology in research on men and masculinities performed by female researchers. This article is based on my professional experience gained during a research project on the European fathers’ rights movements. This was conducted between 2011 and 2016 with members of fathers’ rights groups in Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The central issue here is the process of carrying out interviews with men by a female researcher and the variety of gender dynamics produced through this particular type of interaction. This process is connected to multiple issues arising from gender inequalities and power relations. This article provides an intersectional analysis of the relations between the researcher and the researched since social factors such as gender, sexuality, nationality, and social class have a tremendous impact on the interview process in different sociopolitical contexts in Europe.

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