Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway write by Masako Ishii-Kuntz. This book was released on 2021-11-28. Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book compares perspectives on gender equality in Norway and Japan, focusing on family, education, media, and sexuality and reproduction as seen through a gendered lens. What can we learn from a comparison between two countries that stand in significant contrast to each other with respect to gender equality? Norway and Japan differ in terms of historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Most importantly, Japan lags far behind Norway when it comes to the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report. Rather than taking a narrow approach that takes as its starting point the assumption that Norway has so much ‘more’ to offer in terms of gender equality, the authors attempt to show that a comparative perspective of two countries in the West and East can be mutually beneficial to both contexts in the advancement of gender equality. The interdisciplinary team of researchers contributing to this book cover a range of contemporary topics in gender equality, including fatherhood and masculinity, teaching and learning in gender studies education, cultural depictions of gender, trans experiences and feminism. This unique collection is suitable for researchers and students of gender studies, sociology, anthropology, Japan studies and European studies.
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality write by Margaret O'Brien. This book was released on 2016-09-28. Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these contrasting policy regimes. The book brings together three major theoretical strands: social policy, in particular the literature on comparative leave policy developments; family and gender studies, in particular the analysis of gendered divisions of work and care and recent shifts in parenting and work-family balance; critical studies of men and masculinities, with a specific focus on fathers and fathering in contemporary western societies and life-courses. Drawing on empirical data from in-depth interviews with fathers across eleven countries, the book shows that the experiences and social processes associated with fathers’ home alone leave involve a diversity of trends, revealing both innovations and absence of change, including pluralization as well as the constraining influence of policy, gender, and social context. As a theoretical and empirical book it raises important issues on modernization of the life course and the family in contemporary societies. The book will be of particular interest to scholars in comparing western societies and welfare states as well as to scholars seeking to understand changing work-life policies and family life in societies with different social and historical pathways.
Firms, Boards and Gender Quotas
Firms, Boards and Gender Quotas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Firms, Boards and Gender Quotas write by Mari Teigen. This book was released on 2012-02-10. Firms, Boards and Gender Quotas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses gender quota reform from an economic, political and philosophical point of view. This title looks at whether the economic performance of companies is influenced, positively or negatively. It provides a comparative study of the access of women to top positions in business in Europe.
Comparing Post War Japanese and Finnish Economies and Societies
Comparing Post War Japanese and Finnish Economies and Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparing Post War Japanese and Finnish Economies and Societies write by Yasushi Tanaka. This book was released on 2014-11-13. Comparing Post War Japanese and Finnish Economies and Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book compares two countries with striking parallels in economic and political outcomes, yet with some distinct features in terms of institutional structures, relative size, and culture. Therefore, this book forms a fruitful platform for the study of the similarities and differences in the economic and societal development of Japan and Finland. Despite their geographic distance from one another and the aforementioned differences, both countries experienced rather similar economic and societal development patterns after the Second World War. The study of these societies both individually and through commonalities will provide a unique perspective on the emergence of modern economies and institutions. The book provides comprehensive coverage on issues such as welfare state formation and society, security and military spending, education system, industrial development, international trade, governmental economic policies, energy solutions, and bubbles and their collapse; thus, issues typical for these countries, as well as most modern states, studied from a longitudinal perspective. The book aims to answer a fundamental question in social science: Why do there seem to be common trends and developmental paths among countries differing in size, culture, and economic structure? This book will provide insights for those seeking to decipher how the developments in their own countries came about and where they may be headed to.
Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation
Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation write by Griffin, Gabriele. This book was released on 2022-06-17. Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Nordic countries are regarded as frontrunners in promoting equality, yet women’s experiences on the ground are in many ways at odds with this rhetoric. Putting the spotlight on the lived experiences of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic countries, this volume explores why, despite numerous programmes, women continue to constitute a minority in these sectors. Contributors flesh out the differences and similarities across different Nordic countries and explore how the shifts in labour market conditions have impacted on women in research and innovation. This is an invaluable contribution to global debates around the mechanisms that maintain gendered structures in research and innovation, from academia to biotechnology and IT.
