In hindsight, the history of gender relations in any society emerges as an exegesis of conflict and accommodations between the sexes. It is also a history of inequality or disequilibrium in the status of women in relation to men, where women, in general, have suffered restraints at the hands...
For the very first time, this chapter offers a translocal and transnational history of a crucial but hitherto neglected part of Italian feminisms: the national branch of the Women’s Health Movement, which consisted of a multitude of small collectives and was the protagonist of an extraordinary s...
A guide to the changing experience of women through history. From ancient times to today, women have adapted, survived and thrived. A brief timeline of women's roles in society.
Much research has examined the position of women faculty members (see Chamberlain1988, Jacobs1996for reviews). Studies have examinedgender inequalitywith respect to hiring patterns, promotion rates, publication rates, mobility between institutions, job satisfaction, turnover, salaries, and the sense of...
in Massachusetts at least, our commitment to marriage equality remains strong. In fact, in our home state, marriage of same-sex couples has become so ordinary that when you hear that someone is about to tie the knot, you can make no assumptions about the gender of the bride/groom to be...
The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology, women’s studies, and literature. Among the issues they address are: the impact of migration, education, early socialization of gender roles, the role of ...
of history, while also addressing the effect of the AIDS pandemic in a region of great social and economic dynamism. A number of factors including gender and economic inequality, as well as colonialism and economic growth, have been identified as important to the historical spread of sexually ...
Poverty, inequality, and low literacy rates also compromise people’s commitment to democratic reforms since survival becomes a higher priority.Human Rights ViolationsNearly all the Middle Eastern states, including those categorized as democratic, violate some of what according to international legal ...
Terreblanche, Sampie (2002) A History of Inequality in South Africa1652–2002 (Durban, SA: University of Natal Press). Google Scholar Thompson, Leonard (2001) A History of South Africa, 3rd edn (New Haven, NJ/London: Yale University Press). Google Scholar Thörn, Håkan (2006) Anti...
摘要:This paper analyzes incomes and income inequality in Stockholm from 1870 to 1970. The paper builds on a new dataset of 38,022 randomly sampled Stockholm residents 1870–1950, with information on income, occupation, age, gender, and household composition. This is complemented by the Census ...