While much has been written on gender diversity management approaches of multinational corporations, relatively little research-oriented efforts have been done and reported on gender diversity that addresses individual concerns, especially in developing countries. There is, ther…
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Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region. The detailed examples and engaging language make this a useful overview for students not only of gender history,…
The Starsplitters, a historical and literary fiction, highlights cultural prejudice, gender inequality, and a struggle for autonomy, absolution, and forgiveness in northern New England. A mysterious letter summons Helen Starbird and her granddaughter Laramie to a dying mill town…
Girls' education has been promoted by the international development community for over two decades; however, it has proven harder to promote gender equality through education than it has been to promote gender parity in education. Of significance is the global circulation and co…
For centuries the West has seen the Muslim woman as an entire group of people in need of saving. Lacking a thorough understanding of Islam and an incredibly diverse Middle Eastern society, Western powers endeavored to shape women of the Middle East into secular, modern examples …
This dissertation addresses the question, "What has prevented the goal of gender equality from being achieved in three countries - South Africa, India, and Turkey?" All three countries ratified the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (…
Although the overall health of children is much improved in Matlab, Bangladesh since the late 1970's, when life expectancies were low and females suffered significantly higher rates of mortality than males, sex differences in nutritional status, negatively affecting girls, remai…
In a world filled with competing multinational corporations, a rising and falling global political economy, progressive advancements in technology and communication and immense inequality of wealth, globalization has become a buzzword often surrounded with expectations and misco…
This paper analyzes gender issues starting from the early twentieth century to the present day and their connection to other social issues in Tajikistan. Presenting extensive research on gender issues within this time frame, it argues that to build a holistically sustainable soc…
Iranian women have shown themselves to be anything but victims (Afkhami, 2009; Price, 1996; Shiranipour, 2002). Although they live in an oppressive regime (Nafisi, 1999; "Symbolic annihilation," 1999), grassroots efforts of their One Million Signatures Campaign transformed gende…
This dissertation examines the association between educational gender equality from one hand, and the Religious and Modernization Theories from the other hand, using fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010. The results indicate that less religious countries …
This dissertation is a comparative analysis of state policymaking to advance women's status toward gender equality in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan from 1995 to 2004. I show that the diffusion of international norms of gender equality caused the establishment of women's policy age…
This study is concerned with the judicial implementation of the revised family code in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The revised family code pertains to the family courts of Addis Ababa which are situated at the lower level of government structure. These courts have a public mandate an…
The changes that affected Iranian women's lives after the coming of Islam in the seventh century were similar to the changes that occurred in their lives after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In both cases these changes were largely wrought by men. Iranian women have been active…
This research attempts to shed light on how the State sustains and perpetuates the gender-based disparities in education leading to inequitable social outcomes. Its purpose is to examine the role of Turkish education policies and practices in formal and non-formal education in c…
In this thesis, I focus on the relationship between gender and nation in post-colonial India, through the lens of Muslim women, who are located on the margins of both religious community and nation. The contradictory embrace of a composite national identity with an ascriptive re…
Why do Muslim-majority states adopt some policies to improve women's lives but reject others? Despite concerted local and international pressure on states to adopt policies promoting women's rights, not all policies are adopted. Existing explanations focus on the role of women's…
This study investigates to what extent international human rights advocates and conflict resolvers are skilled and equipped to deal with situations such as the state-run gender violence which has led to a protracted conflict in a country like Iran. This project aims to first con…