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Author: Virginia Sapiro Publisher: ISBN: 9780608015248 Category : Languages : en Pages : 272
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Three current issues in social science research are examined in this volume: the problems affecting women in their everyday lives, the relationship between the physical and social-political lives of people, and the role of normative theory in policy science. Going beyond theories of traditional sociobiology, this multi-disciplinary volume focuses on the reciprocal relationship between biology and the formulation, implementation, and impact of public policies. The contributors argue that assumptions about biological differences between the sexes affect public policy. These assumptions create a gender ideology that shapes not only public opinion on gender issues in politics, but also affects the development, interpretation and application of scientific research to public policy. In turn, gender-based public policies are shown to have tangible effects on the biological condition of men and women even when the policy is not gender based.
Author: Virginia Sapiro Publisher: ISBN: 9780608015248 Category : Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Three current issues in social science research are examined in this volume: the problems affecting women in their everyday lives, the relationship between the physical and social-political lives of people, and the role of normative theory in policy science. Going beyond theories of traditional sociobiology, this multi-disciplinary volume focuses on the reciprocal relationship between biology and the formulation, implementation, and impact of public policies. The contributors argue that assumptions about biological differences between the sexes affect public policy. These assumptions create a gender ideology that shapes not only public opinion on gender issues in politics, but also affects the development, interpretation and application of scientific research to public policy. In turn, gender-based public policies are shown to have tangible effects on the biological condition of men and women even when the policy is not gender based.
Author: Mary Margaret Conway Publisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 244
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The contributors examine the ways in which cultural change in the United States has created a need for public policy, and conversely, how public policy has led to cultural change. Issues include education, health care, equal economic opportunity, child care, and the justice system.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309100410 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 245
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During the last 40 years, the number of women studying science and engineering (S&E) has increased dramatically. Nevertheless, women do not hold academic faculty positions in numbers that commensurate with their increasing share of the S&E talent pool. The discrepancy exists at both the junior and senior faculty levels. In December 2005, the National Research Council held a workshop to explore these issues. Experts in a number of disciplines met to address what sex-differences research tells us about capability, behavior, career decisions, and achievement; the role of organizational structures and institutional policy; cross-cutting issues of race and ethnicity; key research needs and experimental paradigms and tools; and the ramifications of their research for policy, particularly for evaluating current and potential academic faculty. Biological, Social, and Organizational Components of Success for Women in Academic Science and Engineering consists of three elements: an introduction, summaries of panel discussions including public comment sessions, and poster abstracts.
Author: Ruth Dixon-Mueller Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313390711 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 304
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Global population policies are under intense scrutiny as environmental and development organizations worry about the threat of overpopulation and call for stronger measures of population control. At the same time, women's organizations in both developing and industrialized countries are intensifying their attacks on the simplistic thinking of the population controllers and the quest for a technological fix on the part of the family-planning establishment. Population Policy and Women's Rights presents a forceful argument for a more responsive approach to fertility limitation in developing countries--one that builds on women's concerns about their survival and security and strengthens women's rights. Ruth Dixon-Mueller reviews the history of the debate between feminists and the birth control movement, examines the forces affecting U.S. population policy on the domestic and international fronts, and documents the relationship between women's reproductive rights and their rights in other areas. Dixon-Mueller begins by focusing on the evolution of the political positions of the women's movement and the birth control/population control movements. She examines the relationship between different aspects of women's rights and reproductive choice in developing countries. She concludes with a proposal for a woman-centered approach to reproductive policy-making, based on promoting women's rights and protecting women's sexual and reproductive health. Written from a sociological perspective, Population Policy and Women's Rights is recommended for researchers, policy-makers, and students in the fields of population, development, women's studies, and human rights.
Author: Virginia Sapiro Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 280
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Three current issues in social science research are examined in Women, Biology and Public Policy -- the problems affecting women in their everyday lives, the relationship between the physical and socio-political lives of people, and the role of normative theory in policy science. Going beyond beyond theories of traditional sociobiology, this multi-disciplinary volume focuses on the reciprocal relationship between biology and the formulation, implementation, and impact of public policies.
Author: Linda Briskin Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773567895 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 407
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Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden highlights the impact of women's organizing on the framing and implementing of public policy, the reconstituting of discourse, and the practices of unions, political parties, and the state. It examines the strategies women have used to organize themselves as a vocal and politicized constituency. In so doing, it stretches definitions of organizing and of political practice, politicizes the social and the private, and expands conceptions of agency. Comparing Sweden and Canada allows the mechanisms at work in each society to emerge more clearly, challenging what is often taken for granted. Contributors include Christina Bergqvist (Uppsala, Sweden), Linda Briskin, Barbara Cameron (York, Canada), Marianne Carlsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Rebecca Priegert Coulter (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Mona Eliasson, Georgina Feldberg (York, Canada), Sue Findlay (private scholar, Canada), Lena Gonäs (National Institute for Working Life, Sweden), Wuokko Knocke (National Institute for Working Life, Sweden), Catharina Landström (Linkoping, Sweden), Colleen Lundy (Carleton, Canada), Rianne Mahon (Carleton, Canada), Chantal Maillé (Concordia, Canada), Roxana Ng (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada), Becki Ross (University of British Columbia, Canada), Lena Wängnerud (Göteborg, Sweden), and Inga Wernersson (Göteborg, Sweden).
Author: Cecile Jackson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134727135 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
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Key issues in gender studies and development today are explored in detail, from rural and urban poverty to population and family planning, resulting from the 1995 UN Conference on Women.
Author: Griet Vandermassen Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 146164707X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 241
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The relationship between feminism and the biological sciences has always been particularly tense and hostile. Feminists have been inclined not to trust what scientists had to say about the sexes, with science often being pronounced a Owhite, male enterprise.O But why should feminism and the biological sciences remain at odds? And what might be gained from a reconciliation? In Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Griet Vandermassen shows that, rather than continuing this enmity, feminism and the biological sciences, and in particular evolutionary psychology, have the potential and the need to become powerful allies. Properly understood, the Darwinian perspective proposed in this volume will become essential to tackling the major issues in feminism.
Author: Virginia Sapiro
Author: Virginia Sapiro
Author: Mary Margaret Conway
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Ruth Dixon-Mueller
Author: Virginia Sapiro
Author: Linda Briskin
Author: Ellen Boneparth
Author: Janet A. Flammang
Author: Cecile Jackson
Author: Griet Vandermassen