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How Women can Make it Work
The Science of Success
by Eden B. King and Jennifer L. ...
In a recent survey, working women in the millennial generation (aged from 22 to 35) reported persistent concerns of gender bias in the form of inequitable pay scales, corporate cultures that favor men, stereotypes, few women among the top echelons of the organization, and barr...
(2011)
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Women in Scientific Careers
Unleashing the Potential
While women account for more than half of university graduates in several OECD countries, they receive only 30% of tertiary degrees granted in science and engineering fields.This publication presents the proceedings of a recent international workshop to assess the underlying c...
(2006)
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Women in Leadership
Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries
by Karin Klenke
Women leaders in many parts of the world have leadership opportunities that never existed before as a result of technology, globalization, and demographic shifts that have produced more female graduates than in the past and created a workforce which consists almost 50% of wome...
(2011)
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Our Sisters' Promised Land
Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence
by Ayala Emmett
In this powerful and timely book, Ayala H. Emmett examines the political roles of women in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Emmett's insights come from numerous trips to the region that included in-depth interviews with many of the participants. Excerpts from the intervi...
(2010)
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Centaurs and Amazons
Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being
by Page duBois
In Centaurs and Amazons, Page duBois offers a prehistory of hierarchy. Using structural anthropology, symbolic analysis, and recent literary theory, she demonstrates a shift in Greek thought from the fifth to the fourth century B.C. that had a profound influence upon subsequen...
(2010)
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Women of the Andes
Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns
by Kay Barbara ... and Susan C. Bou...
Pilar is a capable, energetic merchant in the small, Peruvian highland settlement of Chiuchin. Genovena, an unmarried day laborer in the same town, faces an impoverished old age without children to support her. Carmen is the wife of a prosperous farmer in the agricultural comm...
(2010)
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Gender, War, and Militar...
Feminist scholars have long contended that war and militarism are fundamentally gendered. _Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives_ provides empirical evidence, theoretical innovation, and interdisciplinary conversation on the topic, while explicitly&mdash...
(2010)
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Reproductive Justice
A Global Concern
The statistics are ugly: one woman somewhere in the world dies every minute of every day due to pregnancy- and childbirth-related complications. The United Nations estimates that three million girls worldwide are at risk of female genital cutting each year. Every year, tens of...
(2012)
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Starting Over
Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique
For more than a decade Judith Newton has been at the forefront of defining and promoting materialist feminist criticism. Starting Over brings together a selection of her essays that chart the establishment of feminist literary criticism in the academy and its relation to other...
(2012)
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Women in Business
Policies to Support Women's Entrepreneurship Development in the MENA Region
This publication provides an overview of approaches and measures in MENA-OECD Investment Programme economies to promote, support and advance women's entrepreneurship development in the Middle East and North Africa. It covers such issues as access to credit and business develop...
(2012)
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