scholarly journals The Impact of Class and Income on Attitudes Towards Women’s Careers and Career Choices

2019 ◽  
pp. 198-220
Author(s):  
Vimee Patel
Keyword(s):  
Career Choices ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Male Domination ◽  
Women's Careers ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women’S Careers ◽  
Cultural Status ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Status Of Women

The status of women is defined by the cultural norms and not their monetary status. But if we compare their monetary status with their cultural status, we come across a very strange result. Regardless of the class she belongs to, she is free and independent only for two reasons. Either she can be happily ambitious, or she is in need of money and has no other source. Equality of gender still does not exist. It might never exist, according to the culture we follow. Male domination will still be in fashion, women will still have to act within the boundaries of cultural norms and this will continue until the women of our nation raises their son with the values of eliminating dominance of the female gender. Also, for this to happen, a woman herself needs to understand and accept her importance of existence. The change in the psychology and acceptance power of both women and men will bring about existence of 'woman empowerment‘, until then, these two words will merely remain just two words.

The Muslim Surgeon and Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas Surrounding the Restoration of Virginity

Hawwa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 324-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vardit Rispler-Chaim
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Scientific Technology ◽  
Status Of Women

AbstractIn the last few decades surgeons have been able to perform an operation that repairs a torn hymen, and thus allows young women and girls whose hymen is not intact to reappear as virgins. Most of the ethical issues related to hymen repair surgery concern the conduct of the surgeon and the question of whether restoration of virginity is a way to deceive husbands. The status of hymen restoration surgery has been the subject of several fatwas issued by leading religious authorities and articles written by Muslim lawyers, physicians and ethicists. Virginity restoration, based on the above sources, appears to have its supporters and opponents. The study of hymen restoration is also related to the status of women in society and their rights, to ancient social taboos, and to the impact of modern scientific technology on society at large.

Women in management: A personal retrospective

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 555-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie Still
Keyword(s):  
Employment Status ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Women In Management ◽  
Management Area ◽  
The Status ◽  
Actual Change ◽  
Australian Experience ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Occupational Employment

The status of women in employment in general and in management in particular has interested researchers in Australia since the mid-1970s, although interest in women's industrial and occupational employment segregation and pay inequality has an even longer history. However, this overview concentrates on developments in the ‘women in management’ field since the 1970s, primarily because of the concerted and concentrated efforts to raise the employment status of women since that time.The overview also concentrates on the Australian experience, in an attempt to determine if ‘the more things change the more they remain the same’ or if actual change and progress has been made. My credentials for undertaking this retrospective are that I have been researching in the women in management area since the early 1980s and have tracked the main changes, influences and dimensions since that time. Readers who are expecting a critique of the impact of feminism and other ideologies in the area will be disappointed. My research perspective is, and always has been, managerial and organizational. I will thus not be mentioning a whole raft of substantive thinkers and researchers from other perspectives who have contributed to this area over the years. To assist the process of review, I have divided developments into a number of eras to illustrate the progression of both policy and research over the various periods.

scholarly journals Women in the Profession: An Update on the Gendered Composition of the Discipline and Political Science Departments in the UK

2020 ◽  
pp. 147892992090550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Pflaeger Young ◽  
Fran Amery ◽  
Stephen Holden Bates ◽  
Stephen McKay ◽  
Cherry Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Group Membership ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Science Departments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Qualitative Changes

We present data on the proportions and seniority of female and male political scientists working in the UK. Comparing the results with previous research from 2011, we find that progress has been made. However, progress has been incremental and we find no qualitative changes in the status of female political scientists: they continue to be outnumbered by their male counterparts; they are overrepresented in the least senior job groups and underrepresented in the most senior; and the average female political scientist occupies a less senior position than the average male counterpart. We also run regression analyses to explore the impact of broader contextual factors on the proportion of female political scientists within a unit and that unit’s ‘gender seniority gap’. We find evidence that gender equality kitemarks, university mission group membership, the gender of the Head of Unit and Vice-Chancellor and the proportion of female members of university governance bodies appear to matter for one or both of these measures but not always in the direction that might be expected. These results, then, raise questions about what strategies might be pursued by those who wish to improve the status of women in the profession.

Women and Capitalism: Oppression or Emancipation? A Review Article

1988 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 534-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Working People ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Transition To Capitalism ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Status Of Women

In the last few years, work in social history and the history of women has centred on the transition to capitalism and the great bourgeois political revolutions—also variously described as industrialization, urbanisation, and modernisation. Throughout this work runs a steady debate about the improvement or deterioration brought about by these changes in the lives of women and working people. On the whole, sociologists of the 1960s and early 1970s and many recent historians have been optimistic about the changes in women's position, while feminist and Marxist scholars have taken a much more gloomy view.1 There has been little debate between the two sides, yet the same opposed arguments about the impact of capitalism on the status of women crop up not only in accounts of Britain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, but also in work on women in the Third World, and cry out for critical assessment.

scholarly journals Post-legislative Domestic Violence Situation and Socio-cultural Status of Women in Punjab: An Objective Hermeneutics Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-466
Author(s):  
Beenish Ijaz Butt ◽  
Nargis Abbas ◽  
Uzma Ashiq
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Qualitative Social Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Objective Hermeneutics ◽  
Cultural Status ◽  
Status Of Women

Violence against Women (VAW) occurs in different societies in assorted ways in the world. It can be seen from the different lens starting from family structure to the workplaces of women. In Pakistan women experience violence from their own family members even after the promulgation of legislation at national as well as at provincial level. There is variety of existing literature which explains the prevalence of violence in different countries around the globe but mere to find the literature that shows the post-legislative status of women in a country.  This paper aims at describing the status of women after filing a case under the PPWAV Act, 2016 in Punjab. To explain and describe the said issue, the following study followed descriptive analysis and was based on qualitative social research methodology, followed by narrative approach. Relying on saturation of data, thirteen interviewees were interviewed for the said study. For analyzing the narratives, the objective hermeneutics as explained by flick (2014) was used to present data analysis. Major themes derived from the data were violence bringing women from four walls of the house, filing a case of domestic violence: violation of society values and Post case filed domestic problems. It is concluded that the said law does not harmonizes with the family values prevailing in Pakistani social structure hence is unable to eliminate the problem of domestic violence from Punjab.

scholarly journals Flawed Data and Unjustified Conclusions Cannot Elevate the Status of Women in Science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen A Lindquist ◽  
June Gruber ◽  
Jessica L. Schleider ◽  
Jennifer Suzanne Beer ◽  
Eliza Bliss-Moreau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women’S Careers ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Junior Scientist

Scientists can and should critically examine the dynamics of, and biases within, their own fields. However, AlShebli and colleagues’ (2020) publication neither advances scientific knowledge nor makes empirically justified recommendations in their recent analysis of the citation rates of 3 million unique senior-junior scientist co-author pairs. The authors assess how ostensible markers of career success and the assumed gender of senior co-authors predict junior co-authors’ subsequent citation rates and find that women who publish with women are less likely to be cited. On the basis of these findings, they suggest that both senior and junior women should avoid working with, or being mentored by, other women. Based on correlational and unidimensional data, AlShebli et al. further offer policy recommendations for increasing diversity in science. In this brief commentary, we first explain methodological problems limiting the validity of the findings, then highlight significant conceptual concerns that undermine the conclusions drawn, and conclude by noting the lack of novelty in what the data do (if accurate) suggest about women’s careers in sciences.

Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) Presidium Committee Nairobi Preparations

Meridians ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-182
Author(s):  
Destiny Wiley-Yancy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Status Of Women

Abstract The Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization’s (AAPSO) Presidium Committee on Women met to prepare for the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya. The committee aimed to tackle the impact of colonialism and imperialism and the ways they disproportionately impacted the lives of women. The AAPSO wanted to do this through a series of workshops focusing on the status of women in apartheid South Africa, the destabilization of women and children in Africa and Asia, the burden of debt in developing countries, and the subversive role of transnational corporations in mass media. The committee also recognized that women, particularly in Africa and Asia, formed the forefront of resistance movements, driving the struggle. This meeting shows that the Presidium Committee on Women optimistically saw women’s social justice as an integral component to the larger anticolonial and anti-imperial project.

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