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Using case studies from around the world, this volume argues that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than just additional women in politics: it requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.
Over the past several years, the fields of Leadership Studies and of Women's Studies have grown tremendously. This book, which is a series of case studies of women who have headed governments across the globe, will discuss the conditions and situations under which women rose to power and give a brief biography of each woman . A special chapter on why no U.S. woman has risen to the top, and a review of the political campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Michele Bachmann and others will be included. This book will be of interest for courses in women and leadership, global politics and gender studies.
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women. The book’s argument is that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than more women in politics. It requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.
This book provides comparative data and policy benchmarks on women's access to public leadership and inclusive gender-responsive policy-making across OECD countries.
This edited volume examines policies aimed at increasing the representation of women in governing institutions in six South Asian countries. Divided into three parts, it addresses the implications of uniformity and diversity for the substantive representation of women in parliament, civil service and local government. The contributing authors explore the scope and limits of ‘positive discriminatory policies’ within distinct country contexts, and the implications of the lack of such policies in other countries. Their findings shed new light on the extent to which the higher presence of women in different governing institutions matters, particularly in respect of promoting women’s issues; and also on the way men and women in different governing institutions look upon each other’s roles and adopt strategies for mutual adjustment. This innovative collection will appeal to students and scholars of gender studies, public policy and administration, international relations, law and political science.
This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism.
Governing in a Global World captures the panorama of women governing around the world. Even though the modern era marks history’s greatest advancements for women, worldwide they hold fewer than 30 percent of decision-making positions and are often missing from negotiating tables where policies are made and conflicts resolved. The opening chapters present trends and context for studying women in public service by focusing on path-setters across the globe, the status of women in the world’s executive and legislative bodies, and their participation in public service across several nations. Later chapters examine power, leadership and representation of women in public service, with several chapters looking at women governing from a regional perspective in the Middle East, Sub Sahara Africa, Latin America, and China. The final chapter presents empirical evidence that shows how policies to increase women’s representation in the public arena reduce gender inequality more than any other policy intervention. Taken together, the chapters illustrate the worldwide importance of, and challenges to, promoting gender equality and women governing.
A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.
Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power. The chapters in this volume present diverse analyses of the ways in which projects of governance both reproduce and challenge binaries.
"Patenting is gendered. This book explores why this is, including an analysis of the gendered nature of patent law itself. It argues that the "women in STEM" rhetoric is a distraction from the fact that gendered concepts underlie patent law and the knowledge governance system it creates. The book discusses different ways of viewing knowledge and offer an alternative means of governing knowledge. The world-over, the vast majority of patented inventions are attributed to male inventors. This has resulted in discourses around "women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)". Namely that there are not enough women in STEM and that females are inherently (biologically) pre-disposed away from STEM. This book highlights that these discourses are misguided and dangerous. It shows that the reason why fewer females patent than men is that patent law and the knowledge governance system it creates are gendered. The law protects the masculine at the sacrifice of the feminine. Those in power protect those most like themselves and thereby retain their power. This re-framing is important as it allows us to stop telling women, whether consciously or unconsciously, that they are the problem if they cannot succeed in patenting and commercialisation. When, in reality, the Western knowledge governance system sets women up to fail. Furthermore, giving shape and form to a power dynamic allows us to deconstruct it, which we have to do as there are harms of the status quo. Patents are a primary tool used in Western jurisdictions to promote innovation and they can have negative wealth distributing effects through creating "haves" and "have nots". Thus, this book examines alternative ways of thinking about and regulating knowledge. This book is for anyone who is interested in gender bias in knowledge generation, protection and commercialisation. This includes those concerned with patent law, scholars of law and feminism and law and sociology, as well as policymakers in knowledge governance, innovation and women's affairs"--