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Anatomy: Gender Disparities in East Africa
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 16–17.
Published: 01 December 2016
... World Policy Journal examines East African gender data in politics, education, and labor. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 gender politics education labor ANATOMY
GENDER DISPARITIES IN EAST AFRICA
World Policy Journal examines gender data in politics, education...
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A Seat at the Table: The Fight for Gender Parity in Kenya and Somalia
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 10–15.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the patriarchy conspires to undo them. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Kenya Somalia East Africa gender politics Wangari Muta Maathai, Nobel Prize winner and former Kenyan MP THE-TIME-LINE Wangari Muta Maathai, Nobel Prize winner and former Kenyan MP. / THE-TIME-LINE...
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Latin Women Take the Helm
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 39–47.
Published: 01 March 2014
... would you want more?” “Our patriarchs resented [Bachelet’s win] and the fact that she followed through with her campaign promise to appoint a Cabinet with gender parity,” Valdés continued. “She also appointed women [to the Cabinet] that the political parties didn’t want. They resented...
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Gender Über Alles
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 17–23.
Published: 01 March 2014
... are indeed quite different, and that each sex has its own identifiable strengths and weaknesses. Acknowledging these basic differences between the sexes, in turn, is a crucial step toward accepting other approaches to gender identity and allowing gender to enrich the workplace, politics, and society at large...
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Unveiling Koovagam
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 91–99.
Published: 01 June 2014
... community believe that recognition of the “third gender” as a protected class was the first step of many others leading toward the full repeal of Section 377. Tripathi issued a call to political action. In October 2013, she filed a petition demanding establishment of a “third category” in identity...
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Trans[ition] in Iran
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 28–38.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Rochelle Terman Rochelle Terman is an Iranian-American Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and sits on the advisory council for Women Living Under Muslim Law’s International Solidarity Network. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy...
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Blood Ties: Intimate Violence in Shinzô Abe’s Japan
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 28–35.
Published: 01 September 2017
... assault on citizens’ rights. This time around, Abe has softened his reactionary tone, and relies instead on the rhetoric of economic growth to maintain political popularity. Abe played a key role in attacks on gender-equality policies in 2005, portraying feminist scholars and bureaucrats who sought...
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The Patriarchy’s Revenge: How Retro-Macho Politics Doomed Dilma Rousseff
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 82–91.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of State Hillary Clinton, the first female major-party presidential nominee in U.S. history. It may seem strange to suggest Rousseff’s gender as a primary cause for her political demise given the success of women in politics in Latin America. After all, the first woman to rise to the presidency...
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Good Girls Revolt: The Future of Feminism in China
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 18–22.
Published: 01 December 2016
... or freedom for Tibet. But with Xi’s ascension, authorities have also been clamping down on rights lawyers, NGO workers, political reformers, investigative journalists, academics who don’t toe the party line, and activists for causes that had previously been safe—like feminism. Four of the women were...
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Gender Trouble: On Egypt’s revolution and the future of international feminism
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 42–47.
Published: 01 March 2018
... than gender, every day. For me, the experience demonstrated how everything is interconnected—you can’t pluck a thread out of embedded political and economic problems and say, “this is a feminist issue.” Everything is linked, from the state, to economic systems of oppression, to the family...
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The Big Question: How Do Sex and Sexuality Affect One’s Role in Society?
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... Which means that to be a man today—a good man—is to listen. In the Arab world, sex is a powerful lens through which to view a society because what happens in intimate life is shaped by forces on a larger stage—politics, economics, religion, gender, and generations. If you really want to know...
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Women and the New Global Order: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 51–57.
Published: 01 March 2014
... for political office. Do you think that is a positive step toward achieving gender equality in government? SLAUGHTER: It is a positive development for those societies where it is possible. It is most unlikely that we would see that in the United States, largely because of the way our culture reacts...
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Daddy Issues: “Responsible Paternity” as Public Policy in Latin America
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... In Chile, feminists who helped defeat the Pinochet dictatorship adopted the slogan, “democracy in the nation and in the home.” Governments across the region created women’s ministries to design and advance policies promoting gender equity. Children’s rights, too, gained political currency. In Brazil...
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Femme Fascista : How Giorgia Meloni became the star of Italy’s far right
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 14–21.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the League’s Salvini, Meloni has been strategic in using her gender for political gain. Along with Frauke Petry and Tatjana Festerling in Germany, and Beata Szydło in Poland, Le Pen and Meloni belong to an elite club of far-right female politicians in Europe hewing close to traditional values. Putting a female...
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Is it Time to Drop the F-Bomb on Russia?: Why Putin Is Almost a Fascist
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 48–53.
Published: 01 March 2017
...” alternative to the sexual “deviants” of a “degenerate” West. Valerie Sperling, a political science professor at Clark University, writes that to the extent that Putin’s Russia has a “personality cult, the personality at the center is defined in strongly emphasized gendered terms, which shapes the tenor...
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“Not Blacks But Citizens”: Race and Revolution in Cuba
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 23–29.
Published: 01 March 2016
...) to stimulate the existence of a counterdiscourse to dismantle the negative, racist, and sexist stereotypes [that exist in Cuba] about black women.” The estatutos state that persons of any race, gender, sexual orientation, or political leaning can join the group, but they also emphasize that the project has...
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Indian Women: No Friends Online
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 85–91.
Published: 01 June 2015
... daughter’s name and school details were tweeted because of her political views. Sagarika now abstains from putting her views on Twitter, but sometimes she does something interesting. She re-tweets some of the abusive tweets to let her followers know about the threats female journalists face. Gul Panag...
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Crashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 70–74.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Kristen R. Ghodsee Copyright © 2018 World Policy Institute 2018 SOVIETECA SOVIETECA In recent years, American and Western European policymakers and business leaders have been forced to confront stark gender imbalances within prestigious and well-paid fields, including medicine...
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“We Want to Stay Alive”: Ending Feminicide in Juárez, Mexico
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 39–46.
Published: 01 December 2016
... bodies. It is a term that recognizes the sexual politics of homicide. At the march, women called out in unison for members of public institutions, like the justice system, to be required to attend workshops on gender violence. They proposed mechanisms to combat sexism, and they demanded equal...
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The Accidental President: A Conversation with Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of Mauritius
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 35–38.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ameenah Gurib-Fakim World Policy Journal speaks with Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, a biochemist who became the first female president of Mauritius. She discusses the importance of integrating science into politics, what prevents women from rising into positions of power, and how her country pulled off...
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