scholarly journals How Theological Librarians Can Help Change the World

2021 ◽  
pp. 246-259
Author(s):  
Kerrie Burn
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Collaborative Initiative

The 1000 Women in Religion Project is working towards adding 1,000 biographies about women to Wikipedia, where only 18% of entries are about women. Knowledge and gender gaps on Wikipedia are well documented and exist despite the platform’s idealistic early goal of providing “free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” This paper details the Australian Women in Religion Project, a collaborative initiative under the auspices of the University of Divinity. The experience of the Australian project can be used as a model for similar projects in other parts of the world. Understanding Wikipedia’s policies around notability, reliability, secondary sources, and conflict of interest is important. There are many benefits to participating in Wikipedia projects like this and theological librarians are well placed to contribute. This is a practical way to highlight noteworthy women in religion while addressing issues of systemic knowledge and gender bias on platforms like Wikipedia.

Assessing Gender Gaps on ICT Competences in Four European Countries

2019 ◽  
pp. 132-153
Author(s):  
Maria Sarmento ◽  
Diego Galego ◽  
Marta Alexandra da Costa Ferreira Dias ◽  
Marlene Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Youth Employability

ICT competences still represent a “stigma” attached to gender around the world. This chapter focuses an analysis on the gender gaps and ICT competences to the access workforce, by analyzing data collected in four European countries (Portugal, Poland, Lithuania and Cyprus) in the scope of a Project “EU Youth: From theory to action (ActYouth).” Within the purpose of answering the hypothesis in understanding, the youth employability, and gender division in the labor market in different regions in Europe, statistical methods were selected and tested. The 537 responses were acquired by questionnaires and interviews and analyzed concerning ICT competences. Data shows that students self-assessment and employer's perspectives of important competences for entry in the labor market. Therefore, an importance performance analysis (IPA) was performed considering the four competences, comparing importance (employers) with performance (students) of competences, and then presented by gender for each analyzed country.

scholarly journals Contributions Of International, Regional, National, Local Feminists And Women Organisation Networks To Women Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-47
Author(s):  
Comfort Yemisi Afolabi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
The Waves

The sufferings of women in the society and other acts of discrimination against women resulted in the rise of women or feminist movements worldwide especially in the Northern countries of the globe. As a result of the dehumanization of women in most communities of the world, many activists and women movements evolved to proffer solutions to women and gender issues. This paper examined the contributions of international, regional, national and local women’s movements to development. The paper delved into the Waves of Feminism which made various changes and resulted in major freedom and development for women in education, family life, health wise, employment and politics. It looked at the importance of women to economic development. Various women’s movements and networks were discussed. Challenges of these women’s movements were identified and recommendations were made. The paper employed secondary sources for information for the study.

Meeting Gender Gaps in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

2019 ◽  
pp. 212-229
Author(s):  
Chunfang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Training Programs ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Creativity Training ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
And Gender

This chapter will bridge theories such as ICT, creativity, learning, and gender in one framework, and particularly focuses on how to meet gender gaps in learning contexts by using ICT and the strategies of developing gender sensitive creativity training programs in developing contexts. In this sense, this chapter contributes to imply both how to encourage more women users and how women can better use ICT for developing contexts in the changes towards creative society. Accordingly, a review on developing ICT-supported educational programs in diverse contexts around the world will be firstly made, which highlights the strategy of learning though ICT is not a new initiative; however, why gender gaps in using ICT are still key issues? This drives this chapter to further discuss gender gaps in developing creativity by ICT from a psychological perspective. Finally, a series of strategies of developing gender sensitive creativity training programs will be discussed in order to facilitate the changes towards a creative society.

Improvising Improperly

2021 ◽  
pp. 214-244
Author(s):  
Alison Rice
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Inappropriate Behavior ◽  
Complex Formulation ◽  
The World ◽  
Fictional Space ◽  
And Gender

Chapter 8 is attentive to the innovation that women writers from around the world are introducing into their work in French. It explores how certain books depict inappropriate behavior in inventive textual turns that are transgressive but also transformative, ultimately allowing for the complex formulation of truths that are so often elided in euphemistic writings. Many of the writers who have come to France have encountered prejudice in various forms that they address in their work. They portray racial discrimination and gender bias, and they contemplate the plight of migrants in Europe at a time of political change. Theatrical metaphors frequently emerge in the work of authors who describe encounters in performative terms, emphasizing how the script their characters are assigned appears to preclude all forms of improvisation. Despite the difficulties of this vocation, many women writers describe a compulsion to compose literary works, an irresistible pressure to take up the pen that propels them to write, even when their texts meet with criticism and misunderstandings. The role of generic categorizations often predetermines textual interpretations in ways that mirror the confining societal categorizations these authors represent in their writing. The fictional space of literary creations nonetheless allows for the creative staging of unacceptable actions in which characters from elsewhere who have experienced trauma effectively act out, demonstrating the pent-up frustration and releasing the tension that has accumulated in a setting where they are often not afforded the opportunity to express themselves verbally.

scholarly journals KURIKULUM PENDIDIKAN DASAR DALAM PERSPEKTIF GENDER

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamqad Mustaqim
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

<p>Tulisan ini bermaksud mengkaji tentang implementasi kurikulum pada pendidikan dasar yang berbasis pada kesetaraan gender. Untuk maksud tersebut, penulis melakukan penelitian kualitatif. Dengan melihat berbagai fenomena bias dan diskriminasi gender yang selama ini membudaya, termasuk dalam dunia pendidikan menjadikan upaya untuk membangun kurikulum berperspektif gender menemukan relevansinya. Pendidikan dasar, sebagai upaya membangun pengetahuan, keterampilan  dan sikap sejak dini menjadi hal penting dalam sosialisasi dan penanaman keadilan gender.Dari hasil penelitian yang telah dilakukan, dapat diketahui bahwa implementasi kurikulum berperspektif  gender ini bisa dilakukan  melalui  beberapa pendekatan, baik secara implisit, eksplisit,  perubahan maupun aksi sosial sebagai upaya dalam meminimalisir bias gender yang ada dalam pendidikan, tentunya dengan berbagai formulasi yang ditawarkan.</p><p><strong>Kata kunci: kurikulum, pendidikan,  gender</strong></p><div class="Section1"><p><em>B</em><em>A</em><em>S</em><em>I</em><em>C EDUCATION CURRICULUM IN A GENDER PERS- PECTIVE. This paper  intends  to examine the implementation  of the curriculum in primary education based on gender equality.  For that purpose, the authors did a qualitative  research. By looking at t</em><em>h</em><em>e various </em><em>of bias phenomena  and gender discrimination  that is widespread, including in the world of education is making  efforts to build the curriculum based on gender perspective finds its relevance. Primary  education, as an effort  in building  the  knowledge, skills and attitude  since early phase becomes an important  thing in the socialization and instilling  the  gender justice. From  the  results of research that has been done, it can be noted that the implementation of the curriculum based on gender perspective can be done through a number of approaches, either implicitly or explicitly, changes, or social action in an effort to minimize  the gender bias that exists in education, of course with the variety of formulations  that are offered.</em></p></div><p><strong><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>:  curriculum, primary education, gender</em><br /></strong></p>

scholarly journals The Nature of Personality Disorders among Females

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reem Kh. Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Social Bias ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

The study aimed to review the literature about personality disorders among females and the role of potential gender bias in diagnosis with these disorders. Personality disorder PD had defined as an inflexible pattern of long duration leading to significant distress or impairment. Women suffer from many types of stress throughout their life according to economic position and social status. However, there are many opinions on the gender differences in PD's and gender can be a powerful element to determine mental health. Unfortunately, there is gender and social bias to view mental illness depending on the patient's gender. Many regions in the world have social cultures that contribute to disorders' development. Due to stigma and social traditions, the Arab region seems to be further away from global diagnosis and statistics for personality disorders. Finally, It's essential for clinicians and researchers to move away from being satisfied with the results of Western studies and not trying to generalize only western findings in diagnosing disorders.

scholarly journals Globalization, Migration and Gender Equality: A Case from Okhaldhunga Village of Gorkha District

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Harihar Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
And Gender

Globalization is an intense of social relationship and closer integration of the countries and peoples of the world as well as it is a process involving increasing liquidity and growing multidirectional flows of people, objects, places and information. To become global is to be worldly and to be conscious of the current scenario of the present. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of globalization on gender equality in rural society of Nepal. For the same, the study limits on the changing gender roles of 50 respondents have been analyzed in Okhaldhunga Village of Palungtar Municipality word no.4 of Gorkha District. Theory of globalization is applied and primary and secondary sources of information are used in this study. One of the result of this paper is women are enjoying modern technology and are increasing involvement in various local institutions and governance. Even though they are not aware about education and to be more advance life like men but they claim that they are more advanced than the previous generation women.

FRANCESCO COTTICELLI (Seconda Università di Napoli) and PAOLOGIOVANNI MAIONE (Conservatorio di Musica di Avellino) write:

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-122
Keyword(s):  
Computer Programs ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
Google Books ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
Printed Materials

Over the last two decades digital resources have proved to be extremely useful even in the humanities. Apart from library catalogues and sophisticated databases, which enable any reader from anywhere in the world to search for items and often offer free access to rare books and prints – not to mention a huge project like Google books or the diffusion of e-books as an alternative to printed materials – websites and computer programs have become an essential part of the daily work of scholars, and they keep providing wonderful opportunities to collect, analyse and compare primary (and secondary) sources.

scholarly journals The Art of Rambling: Journeys through Space and Time with Mary Kingsley, Rose Macaulay, Ursula Le Guin, Naomi Mitchison and Octavia Butler

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Sarah LeFanu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Mary Kingsley ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Octavia Butler ◽  
The World ◽  
Travel Writings ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Rose Macaulay

In “The Art of Rambling: Journeys Through Space and Time”, Sarah LeFanu will look at the travels and travel-writings of, predominantly, Mary Kingsley and Rose Macaulay, and will boldly suggest some connections with the science fictional spacewomen and time-travellers of the second wave of feminism. She will talk about five travelling women whose lives span over one hundred years, and look at some of the connections between them in their lives and in their writing. By focusing on the experience of the five authors in a larger socio-cultural and literary context, LeFanu will trace the implications of writing and travelling vis-à-vis the intersectionality of one’s personal commitments and motivations, with the aim to discovering how these are inflected by questions of gender and gender bias, consequently bearing upon the shape of modern discourses of women travel and travel writing. While each of the women travelled in different modes and to different places, for every one of them the imaginative worlds of their childhoods inspired them to engage with the world outside, an engagement that was not just personal but was also profoundly political.

scholarly journals In Opposing Community Wisdom: Exposing Lexicon Choices in Kimeru Folklore as Agents of Patriarchy and Gender Bias

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Ann Hildah Gatakaa Kinyua
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Pastoralist Communities ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

Since time immemorial, communities across the world exhibit gender inequity whereby the feminine gender is viewed as lesser to their male counterparts. Studies indicate that no one is born a man or a woman, but rather the society makes us men or women through acculturation into roles that are conventionally stereotyped as male or female. However, the roles and duties for men and women vary from community to community; some duties are strictly viewed as being for one gender in one community are considered duties for the other gender in another community. For example, among the Ameru, a patriarchal society of Eastern Kenya, no woman can undertake the task of building a shelter, while among the pastoralist communities of Kenya, women build family shelters. This means there are no duties that are strictly for men or women in the world. This paper argues that one way that society makes men and women out of her people is through the language used in community folklore transmitted through formal or informal linguistic interactions. A case is made from a careful examination of the Ameru proverbs, wise sayings, and riddles. It will be shown that the language used in these genres continually exhorts and invites the male gender to manifest macho and positive qualities while at the same time depicts the female gender as feeble, vain, and weak. The paper proposes the repackaging of community folklore and wisdom through language that establishes positive qualities for members of both genders.

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