Economic Development, Women’s Status, and Changing Family Structure in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Peter S.K. Chi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Women’S Status

Follow the Money

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Olcott
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Consultative Committee ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
The World

This chapter considers the ways that the paltry funding available for IWY resulted in considerable influence by states and organizations that contributed to the UN voluntary fund for IWY activities. Due to time constraints, IWY planners established a consultative committee to plan the intergovernmental conference; Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, who had pledged $2 million to the voluntary fund, was named chair. While drafting the World Plan of Action, the consultative committee deliberated about how to prioritize issues related to women’s status, particularly between those who wanted to emphasize equality between men and women and those who sought economic development to improve standards of living across societies. Australian delegate Elizabeth Reid established a reputation for her facility in adjudicating these debates.

A Country of their Own: Women and Peacebuilding

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 522-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Post Conflict

Research on women and post-conflict reconstruction tends to focus primarily on women as victims and passive targets for aid rather than conceptualizing peacebuilding as a process where greater participation by women may help increase the prospects for success. Here, I argue that women’s social status is a dimension of social capital that is largely independent of general economic development. Societies and communities where women enjoy a relatively higher status have greater prospects for successful peacebuilding, as cooperation by the local population with peacebuilding policies and activities increases. Thus, in the presence of a UN-led peacebuilding operation, women’s status has a direct and independent impact on post-conflict reconstruction. The theoretical claims are empirically assessed by looking at variation in levels of cooperation and conflict during the UN peacebuilding missions within the countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Metaphors and Dehumanization Ideology

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-377
Author(s):  
Chaoyuan Li
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Women Health ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
Women's Magazine

Abstract Rich literature on the representation of women in advertising has repeatedly concluded a message in keeping with a GDP-promoting agenda: with economic development and modernization, women’s status has been elevated and they appear in professional and other settings beyond domesticity. Amid this optimism, the present study cautions that women’s elevated status and transformed roles should not give way to the exuberance on display in many sectors. Motivated by the unusual persistence of women’s decorative role against the background of pro-egalitarian industrialization and modernity, this study, drawing on advertising discourse in Cosmopolitan, the world’s leading women’s magazine, aims to investigate the gender ideology that dehumanizes women by exploring the various dehumanizing metaphors and the visual and linguistic codes deployed to construct the metaphors. In identifying and analyzing two major dehumanizing metaphors – WOMEN ARE OBJECTS and WOMEN ARE ANIMALS – this study outlines a critical metaphorical landscape that goes beyond the warfare metaphor which is popular in various fields (e.g. women, health care, and economy), and highlights HUMAN BEINGS ARE THINGS metaphors as a major instrument in constructing dehumanizing discourse and ideology.

Country Rankings of Women's Status: An Alternative Index

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (4III) ◽  
pp. 1025-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Mohiuddln
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Implicit Assumption ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Country Rankings ◽  
Population Crisis ◽  
Status Of Women

The purpose of the present paper is to formulate a composite index of the status of women and to rank both developed and developing countries on the basis of that index. This index is presented as an alternative or complement to the current status of women index, published by the Population Crisis Committee (PCC) and used by the World Bank and the United Nations, which focuses on indicators measuring health, education, employment, marriage and childbearing, and social equality. The paper argues that these indicators have a poverty-bias and measure women's status in terms of structural change rather than in terms of their welfare vis-ii-vis men. The PCC index is also based on the implicit assumption that women's status in developing countries ought to be defined in a similar way as in developed countries, thus including primarily only those indicators which are more relevant for developed countries. To remedy these defects, the paper presents an alternative composite index, hereafter labelled the Alternative Composite (AC) index, based on many more indicators reflecting women's issues in both developed and developing countries. The results of the statistical analysis show that the ranking of countries based on the AC index is significantly different from the PCC index.

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