VOLUME 6(2) • 2016
GENDER INEQUALITY AMID EDUCATIONAL EXPANSION IN INDIA: AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE ATTAINMENT OF READING AND MATHEMATICS SKILLS
ABSTRACT. This article analyzes gender differences in the attainment of reading and mathematics skills among Indian children ages 8–11 using data from the 2005 India Human Development Survey. This dataset, collected at a time when India was nearing universal educational enrollment and gender parity ..
IS THE DECREASE IN THE GENDER WAGE GAP THE PRINCIPAL DRIVER OF THE SUSTAINED RISE IN FEMALE LABOR MARKET PARTICIPATION?
ABSTRACT. Over the past decade, there has been increasing evidence describing the increasing female participation in the labor market, the function of social norms concerning women’s performance in influencing observed gender outcomes, and the labor market effects of gender dissimilarities in conduc..
EMPLOYER SPONSORED FERTILITY PRESERVATION: DEBATING INSTITUTIONAL PROMOTION OF REPRODUCTIVE PROCRASTINATION OR CHOICE
ABSTRACT. Increased interest in fertility preservation, informally called “social freezing,” prompted high profile US technology companies in 2014 to add coverage for the retrieval, freezing and storage of sex cells of eligible employees electing to delay family building. Although an extension of th..
GENDER AND THE LAW
ABSTRACT. To what extent does the essentialist Cult of Domesticity still haunt the legal imagination in the United States and elsewhere? This paper scrutinizes the feminist slogan “the personal is political” through a series of reform legal discourses and their repercussions for women and girls in t..
ORDINARY MEN WITH EXTRA-ORDINARY SKILLS? MASCULINITY CONSTRUCTS AMONG MMORPG-GAMERS
ABSTRACT. Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) involve long term intense social bonds between male players. Still, little is known about how masculinity constructs work as glue in these game communities. This study concerns masculine identities in applications (N=210) for commun..
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC: MIGRATION, GENDER, AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH LITERATURE
ABSTRACT. Contemporary Irish literature has a noticeable interest in women’s diasporic experiences in the 20th century. This article analyses the construction process of a new society in America in four selected novels, focusing on the physical and emotional (dis)locations undergone by their female ..
RECONCEPTUALIZING GENDER: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE FROM STRUCTURE TO PROCESS AND INTERSECTIONALITY
ABSTRACT. An important theoretical advancement in the study of gender has been the interactionist perspective with a body of empirical work focusing on “Doing Gender.” This historical review will discuss the roots and development of doing gender as well as review the transition from sex differences ..
FEMINIZING WORLD POWER: A NEW CONSTELLATION OF WOMEN IN POLITICS?
ABSTRACT. This article charts the emergence of women leaders currently in power, the highest it has ever been with 22 female heads of state and political leaders in 2015. It canvases Fukuyama’s (1988) sociobiology arguments and those of feminists on questions of women’s political representation. It ..
ROMANTIC TERRORISM? AN AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF GENDERED PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL TACTICS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
ABSTRACT. This paper draws on the theoretical arguments outlined in Hayes (2014) to frame critical analyses of two real life domestic violence narratives. The authors are both academic criminologists and victims/survivors of domestic violence, but within differing contexts – one a conventional heter..
ATTITUDES TOWARDS PARENTAL EMPLOYMENT: A RANKING ACROSS EUROPE, AUSTRALIA, AND JAPAN
ABSTRACT. Based on the Generations and Gender Survey, this paper studies attitudes towards parental employment in 14 European countries – among them ten located in Central and Eastern Europe, – Australia and Japan. In a multivariate framework we examine how the acceptance of the employment of mother..