Decolonial Approach to Leadership: Latin American Women in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada

The absence of Latin American women in positions of authority and power is indicative of the career limitations they face. This paper examines the leadership experiences of Latin American women who are leaders and reside in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). I apply a decolonial feminism approach and the concept of intersectionality to examine the intersection of race, gender, and class. Also, I employ qualitative research using 10 in-depth semi-structured, individual interviews. I find that current Latin American women leaders still face barriers that prevent them from continuing their advancement in leadership positions. These barriers include racial and gender discrimination, negative stereotypes, scarcity of networks and mentors, and the struggle to achieve a work-life balance.

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Public Strategy and Eco-Social Engagement in Latin American States: An Analysis of Complex Networks Arising from Their Constitutions

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12208558 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (20) ◽

pp. 8558

Author(s):

Arturo Luque González ◽

Fernando Casado Gutiérrez

Keyword(s):

Citizen Participation ◽

Latin American ◽

Gender Discrimination ◽

Social Engagement ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Positive Trend ◽

American States ◽

The World ◽

And Gender ◽

And Control

Over the past four decades, Latin American states have drafted relatively new constitutions in comparison with other regions of the world. These transformations, in some cases, have helped governments leave behind the former authoritarian regimes, or in others, have simply established a more democratic system incorporating a forward-looking approach to rights. For example, stronger individual and collective rights have been forged, together with new avenues for citizen participation. Certainly, many of the new constitutions grant a much broader base of rights, including collective political and territorial rights for indigenous communities, protections against ethnic, racial, and gender discrimination, and greater guarantees of privacy and control over information. Consequently, some Latin American constitutions are held up as among the best in the world. For this study, the constitutional texts of 22 Latin American countries were analyzed with the aim of understanding their regulatory changes and impacts, pointing out the existing inequalities they address, as well as the clear positive trend established in terms of the generation of greater social engagement.

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Feminist birds of passage: Feminist and migrant becomings of Latin American women in Spain

European Journal of Women s Studies ◽

10.1177/1350506817741324 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 198-213

Author(s):

Cecilia Gordano Peile

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Political Action ◽

Social Activism ◽

Active Role ◽

Ethnic Origin ◽

Subject Formation ◽

American Women ◽

Qualitative Research Study ◽

Rich Diversity ◽

And Gender

This article focuses on the articulations of migration and gender, from the vantage point of women whose feminist experiences have been both enriched and challenged by migration and vice versa. It presents the results of a qualitative research study of five Latin American women who migrated to Barcelona and felt close to feminisms. The author draws on feminist and postcolonial approaches to migration studies that highlight the active role women play in migratory processes as well as how intersectional variables of ethnic origin, socioeconomic class, education and family contexts are articulated, configuring different power relations and resources in specific sociohistorical contexts. The results challenge widespread stereotypes about migrant women by revealing a rich diversity of profiles, motivations and migratory pathways, as well as how informants’ experiences of social activism across national borders have transformed their subject formation processes and re-positioned them as active subjects of political action.

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Invisible Visits

10.1093/oso/9780190840204.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Tina K. Sacks

Keyword(s):

Black Women ◽

Middle Class ◽

Gender Discrimination ◽

The United States ◽

Negative Stereotypes ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Healthcare Settings ◽

Exam Room ◽

History Of ◽

And Gender

Although the United States spends almost one-fifth of all its resources on funding healthcare, the American system is dogged by persistent inequities in the treatment of racial and ethnic minorities and women. Invisible Visits analyzes how Black women navigate the complexities of dealing with doctors in this environment. It challenges the idea that race and gender discrimination, particularly in healthcare settings, is a thing of the past. In telling the stories of Black women who are middle class, Invisible Visits also questions the persistent myth that discrimination only affects racial minorities who are poor. In so doing, Invisible Visits expands our understanding of how Black middle-class women are treated when they go to the doctor and why they continue to face inequities in securing proper medical care. The book also analyzes the strategies Black women use to fight for the best treatment and the toll that these adaptations take on their health. Invisible Visits shines a light on how women perceive the persistently negative stereotypes that follow them into the exam room and makes the bold claim that simply providing more cultural competency or anti-bias training to doctors is insufficient to overcome the problem. For Americans to really address these challenges, we must first reckon with how deeply embedded discrimination is in our prized institutions, including healthcare. Invisible Visits tells the story of Black women in their own words and forces us to consider their experiences in the context of America’s fraught history of structural discrimination.

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