Social norms

ALIGN Platform

[toc] What is ALIGN? The Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALIGN) project convenes a Community of Practice (CoP) and digital platform, www.alignplatform.org, for shared learning on gender norms and norm change. ALIGN connects a global community of researchers and thought leaders to share learning on the impact of harmful gender norms and the […]

International Congress on Social Diversity 2016

Location November 25, 2016 University of Castile-La Mancha Toledo, Spain Conference Aim The main aim of this congress is to promote high quality interdisciplinary research in all sub-areas of Social Diversity, including disability, gender, social integration, social responsibility, ethical and religious diversity or educational diversity management. Conference Topics Disability Gender Sexual orientation Culture, ethnicity, race, […]

Women‘s Access to Employment in the Media in Malawi

  This article was written by Roselyn Dalitso Makhambera from the United Nations University (UNU-GEST) as part of the Wikigender University Programme.         [toc] Media background in Malawi The media sector in Malawi dates back from the early 19th Century colonial period, when publishing was established. Currently, there are numerous State, private and […]

Social norms

Definitions Discriminatory social institutions are “formal and informal laws, social norms and practices that restrict or exclude women and consequently curtail their access to rights, justice, resources and empowerment opportunities” (OECD Development Centre, 2014). Social norms act as powerful prescriptions for how women and men should behave and what is expected of them. They interact […]

Motherhood + Career = Success?

Women have made many strides towards gender equality within the among other developed nations. But despite these vast improvements from what they were a hundred years ago, there are still discrepancies within the workforce between men and women. According to Jane Waldfogel, professor at Columbia University in a New York Times article said, “American made […]

Parental authority

Parental authority can be defined as the ensemble of rights and powers that the law accords to the father and the mother with respect to the person and the goods of their unemancipated minor children, to the end of their accomplishing the duties of protection, education, and support that are incumbent on them.Rubellin-Devichi, J. (1999), […]

Missing Women

Defining the concept of “missing women”  The term was first coined in the late 1980s by Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. The economist observed that the demographic deficit of women affecting mainly Asia and North Africa went against biological trends: indeed, when they receive the same care, infant boys are normally more vulnerable to mortality […]

Masculinities

In everyday use, the term “masculinity” is associated with the biological male sex and the qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men.Oxford Dictionaries. “Definition of masculine”. Retrieved 20 October 2012. However, in gender-related areas, masculinity, or masculinities, is understood more as a social, cultural and temporal construct, rather than a biological one. In consonance with […]

Matriarchy

Matriarchy (or gynecocracy) refers to a gynecocentric form of society, in which the leading role is taken by the women and especially by the mothers of a community. Strongly matrilocal societies sometimes are referred to as matrifocal, and there is some debate concerning the terminological delineation between matrifocality and matriarchy. Even in societies that are […]

Machismo

Machismo is a prominently exhibited or excessive masculinity.  As an attitude, machismo ranges from a personal sense of  virility to a more extreme male chauvinism. In machismo there is supreme valuation of characteristics culturally associated with the masculine and a denigration of characteristics associated with the feminine. Its manifestation can include , , , and […]

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