Future Of Women Research Articles

Engendering a Future for the Catholic Church

The future of women in the Catholic Church, and indeed of the Church itself, is a point of heated contention. This article explores how the climate emergency is causing Catholics not only to reposition the human subject in relation to the natural world, but to re-evaluate and redefine the nature of the actors within it. Within this emerging sphere of Catholic environmentalism, institutional priorities have been slowly reconfigured, allowing arguments for greater liturgical inclusivity to resurface in novel ways. This process has been particularly pronounced in the Church of Latin America, where questions of sex and gender have become more polarized than ever.

The Future of Women in Technology : Challenges and Recommendations

When only women turn up to a panel on challenges for women in technology, how do we then reach out to industry, academia and government to encourage them to listen to the current challenges experienced by women in tech. Technology is rapidly changing and we are seeing women disadvantaged by less training opportunities, lack of role models, perceived penalties for taking time off to have children or discharge caring responsibilities as well as the risk that their jobs are subject to more automation. Multiple workshops at the Institute of Science and Technology highlighted significant challenges for women in tech, the data from our empirical study illustrates these challenges in detail. With the workplace still male dominated and the landscape changing rapidly, women have a significant role to play and we need to ensure that role is not only facilitated but the existing challenges are mitigated. This is a discussion paper with empirical data that illustrates challenges currently experienced by women in tech and how we can move forward to ensure not only equal opportunity but remove some of the challenges currently experienced. In this paper we have not considered the same impact on men who take career breaks for reasons of caring responsibilities.

Young Women's Experiences of Violence and Homelessness.

This article explores the lived experience of young women navigating and surviving domestic and family violence (DFV) and homelessness. Promoting the voices of young women through in-depth interviews, this article considers their story of violence, abuse, homelessness, and sense of safety. Such stories enable reflection on the ability of services to provide personal, material, emotional, and cultural safety in a way that recognizes the intersecting impact of trauma before, during, and after experiences of DFV. We conclude by arguing that providing emotional and cultural safety through the relational aspects of service delivery is essential to developing a strong foundation for young women's futures.

Gender gap and gender data gap in futures research: Focusing on the studies employing the Delphi technique

The gender gap in futures research, rooted in male dominance, results in limited visibility of female futurists and neglect of women's issues. This study focuses on the gender data gap as an indicator of the existing gender gap in futures research and analyze the literature employing the Delphi technique—a widely employed research method in this field. When societal gender gaps influence data collection and utilization, a gender data gap arises, leading to underrepresentation of women's perspectives and experiences. The Delphi method, operates on the principle of expertise, may inadvertently exclude women experts whose expertise tends to be underrecognized. Our analysis, based on Temin and Roca (2016)’s definition of gender data, shows the gender data gap in the futures research literature. The gender gap in futures research, demonstrated by gender data gap, not only colonizes women's futures, but also impedes the potential for planning, social decision-making, and policies aimed at fostering a gender-equitable future. Futures research holds the potential to serve as a tool for decolonization. To achieve a future free of gender disparities, it’s imperative to address issues directly relevant to women but also crucial for humanity as the main challenges of futures research and ensure women’s participation.

Glass Ceiling in the Nigerian Banking Sector: Evidence from Senior Male and Female Employees

The banking and finance sector is a major employer in many countries, especially in emerging economies. Decisions made in the sector have significant implication on the economy. There is evidence that decision- making has significant implications for organisations (and, by extension, the economy) when their manage- ment teams are diverse in terms of gender. Yet only a few women are promoted to executive and managerial roles. This research qualitatively explores how senior male and female employees experience the glass ceiling in the Nigerian banking sector. We conducted 40 interviews, comprising 20 senior male executives and 20 senior female executives from 4 banks in Nigeria. Our study reveals that the glass ceiling is characterised by a male-dominated meritocratic organisational culture that is driven by the goal of profit maximisation, consis- tent with the meritocratic perspective of role congruity theory. We contribute to the extant literature on this topic by examining how women’s strategies for navigating this landscape (namely, the self-directed actions women take in order to progress in their careers) diminish men’s view of the glass ceiling, suggesting a para- dox of meritocracy. This study contributes significantly to the debates on the future of women’s progression in the banking sector in an emerging economy.

Feminist Formalism: A Future Women’s Prophetic Literature in Early Modern England

Feminist Formalism: A Future Women’s Prophetic Literature in Early Modern England

Socio-cultural semiotic analysis of Palestinian films on gender-based violence

ABSTRACT This descriptive-analytical study used thematic analysis within a socio-cultural semiotic approach to explore how violence against Palestinian women is semiotically represented in short Palestinian films. Using desk research and two-day focus group discussions with 17 participants, the study analysed a sample of four films, selected out of 270 surveyed. The study also produced an annotated bibliography of 21 Palestinian films that address gender-based issues, especially violence against women. The analysis revealed four common themes of films on Palestinian women: blockade and war, Palestinian identity, the future of women, and social control, mostly linked to political themes such as identity, power abuse, and women’s resilience and resistance to various forms of injustice.

Synthetic data & the future of Women’s Health: A synergistic relationship

ObjectivesThe aim of this perspective is to report the use of synthetic data as a viable method in women’s health given the current challenges linked to obtaining life-course data within a short period of time and accessing electronic healthcare data. MethodsWe used a 3-point perspective method to report an overview of data science, common applications, and ethical implications. ResultsThere are several ethical challenges linked to using real-world data, consequently, generating synthetic data provides an alternative method to conduct comprehensive research when used effectively. The use of clinical characteristics to develop synthetic data is a useful method to consider. Aligning this data as closely as possible to the clinical phenotype would enable researchers to provide data that is very similar to that of the real-world. DiscussionPopulation diversity and disease characterisation is important to optimally use data science. There are several artificial intelligence techniques that can be used to develop synthetic data. ConclusionSynthetic data demonstrates promise and versatility when used efficiently aligned to clinical problems. Therefore, exploring this option as a viable method in women’s health, in particular for epidemiology may be useful.

Exploring the future potential of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells and their derivatives to support assisted reproductive technology for female infertility applications.

Women's infertility impacts the quality of life of both patients and couples and has multifaceted dimensions that increase the number of challenges associated with female infertility and how to face them. Female reproductive disorders, such as premature ovarian failure (POF), endometriosis, Asherman syndrome (AS), polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and preeclampsia, can stimulate infertility. In the last decade, translational medicine has advanced, and scientists are focusing on infertility therapy with innovative attitudes. Recent investigations have suggested that stem cell treatments could be safe and effective. Stem cell therapy has established a novel method for treating women's infertility as part of a regeneration approach. The chief properties and potential of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) in the future of women's infertility should be considered by researchers. Due to their high abundance, great ability to self-renew, and high differentiation capacity, as well as less ethical concerns, MSC-based therapy has been found to be an effective alternative strategy to the previous methods for treating female infertility, such as intrauterine insemination, in vitro fertilization, medicines, and surgical procedures. These types of stem cells exert their beneficial role by releasing active mediators, promoting cell homing, and contributing to immune modulation. Here we first provide an overview of MSCs and their crucial roles in both biological and immunological processes. The next large chapter covers current preclinical and clinical studies on the application of MSCs to treat various female reproductive disorders. Finally, we deliberate on the extant challenges that hinder the application of MSCs in female infertility and suggest plausible measures to alleviate these impediments.

Screening difficult women: 21st century reclamations of women’s history

ABSTRACT Historical fiction has long been one of television’s most prominent genres. It was not until the advent of streaming TV in the 21st century, however, that the genre reached its radical feminist potential. Written, directed, produced by and starring women, contemporary women’s historical fiction has exploded as both a marketable and an ideological genre. Three series - Good Girls Revolt (Amazon, 2016), Mrs. America (Hulu, 2020), and Halt and Catch Fire (AMC, 2014–17)—exemplify women’s challenge to the orthodoxy of male-driven historical fiction. These three shows not only reclaim women’s 20th Century American histories, but they also refute accepted conceptualizations of the genre and of History itself. Through circular storytelling, the blending of fact and fiction, and new female archetypes, these three series narrate coherent and consistent women’s histories heretofore missing in popular memory. From this foundation, these series discuss, debate, and fantasize about women’s lived experiences in the past, as well as commenting on the present and dreaming about the future of women’s lives and desires.

The past, present and future of women in the United States urological workforce.

The past, present and future of women in the United States urological workforce.

Debating the fate of the homemaker: The ERA and the death of the family wage

ABSTRACTThis article revisits the campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution to argue that amendment adversaries fought over the future of women's economic security. Post‐war US economic growth stalled in the 1970s, bringing the family‐wage ideal of male breadwinning and female homemaking down with it. In these unsettled years, how female economic dependence would be addressed was an open question: would it be by propping up male breadwinning, as ERA opponents wanted, or by combining good jobs with fairly compensated domestic labour and government assistance, as supporters believed the ERA promised? A revisionist interpretation of the ERA battle, this article shifts attention from conflict over gender identity and cultural values to economics and capitalist transformation. It examines arguments presented in pamphlets, the media and to Congress about how homemaking women could achieve security in the face of changing economic reality. The ERA's defeat was a Pyrrhic victory for conservatives. The threat to government‐sanctioned male breadwinning appeared to have been vanquished. But the family‐wage system was truly on the rocks, and supporters’ vision of a working‐family norm, with roles based on function, not gender, won out. Without the ERA, however, working mothers shouldered the consequences.

Sexual Violence in the Zinder Region, about 441 Cases in Reference Motherhoods

Background: Niger is one of the countries that have the highest fertility rate in the world, with 7, 6 children per woman. Zinder is the most populated region of Niger with 5 million inhabitants that is 1/5 of Niger population. The demographic impact that has affected Niger the last 10 years: unemployment poverty and drug use, spawned violence of all kinds in Zinder region (physical and sexual violence). Sexual abuse is a major risk for poor psychiatric and physical outcomes. As sexual violence has serious consequences on the life and future of women and the community and it concerns our field of intervention, we initiated this study whose objective was to determine the socio-epidemiological and lesional aspects, the consequences and appropriate solutions of sexual violence in the Zinder. Methodology: This was a retrospective collection study of all cases of alleged sexual violence received over a 12-year period from 1 January 2009 to 30 June 2021 in Zinder’s referral maternity wards. Results: During the study period, 441 cases of sexual violence were collected; an annual average of 36 cases (441/12). The frequency is 1.29% on the 34,186 consultations. The mean age was 12.31 years with age extremes of 3 to 43 years. Students accounted for 25.39%. Street vendors were found in 224 cases or 50.79%. The predominant reason for admission is rape in 64.63%. The defloration was 52.15%. Pregnancy was found in 118 cases or 26.75%. HIV serology was positive in 1 victim. School dropout was 26.75%. Conclusion: The victims of sexual violence were minors, mostly street vendors and school children. The lack of means of repression at the time allowed the expansion of this violence. The consequences of sexual violence were severe. Advocacy has improved the phenomen on of sexual violence in Zinder.

Editor’s Note] Inclusive Society and the Future of Women"s Labor

Editor’s Note] Inclusive Society and the Future of Women"s Labor

Perceived Traits for Future Women Academic Leaders in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions

Perceived Traits for Future Women Academic Leaders in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions

Narrating the History of Women’s History

Narrating the History of Women’s History Monica Pacini Enrica Asquer, Anna Bellavitis, Giulia Calvi, Isabelle Chabot, Cristina La Rocca, and Manuela Martini, eds. Vingt-cinq ans après. Les femmes au rendez-vous de l’histoire [Twenty-five years after. Women at the rendezvous with history]. Rome: École française de Rome, 2019. 498 pp. ISBN 9782728313785 (pb). Teresa Bertilotti, ed. Women’s History at the Cutting Edge: An Italian Perspective. Rome: Viella, 2020. 120 pp. ISBN 9788833131412 (pb); 9788833136196 (PDF); 9788833139074 (ePub). Julie E. Gallagher and Barbara Winslow, eds. Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 292 pp. ISBN 9780252042003 (cl); 9780252083693 (pb); 9780252050749 (e-book). Elizabeth Jacoway, ed. No Straight Path: Becoming Women Historians. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 264 pp. ISBN 9780807170434 (cl); 9780807172124 (ebook). Karen Offen and Chen Yan, eds. Women’s History at the Cutting Edge. London: Routledge, 2019. 130 pp. ISBN 9780367029074 (cl); 9780367663520 (pb); 9780429001093 (ebook). Hilda L. Smith and Melinda S. Zook, eds. Generations of Women Historians Within and Beyond the Academy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 336 pp. ISBN 9783319775678 (cl); 9783030084820 (pb); 9783319775685 (ebook). It has been over a year since the Covid-19 pandemic considerably transformed women’s lives and work. The closure of libraries, archives, and laboratories has distanced people from one another, reduced physical mobility, and entrusted contacts and projects to webs of words and virtual images. Remote working within domestic spaces has compelled people to seek out a new balance between family and personal needs, between production and caretaking, and it has revealed the deep fractures of society, the preexisting disparities, and the unequal impacts of the crisis in terms of gender.1 In this suspended time of mourning and emergency, as the work of women historians is changing, that work has become an even more important object of reflection. The matter of women’s historical work intertwines with debates over policy and the strategies to adopt for maintaining countries’ social and democratic fabrics, and with the challenges that feminist activism is facing.2 Representation, health, forms of [End Page 120] control, work protections, access to income and credit, taxation, life-work balance, protests, consumption, and public and social spending all appear under a different light considering the events of the past few months, the shock that struck the markets and the world, and the catastrophe of millions of human lives lost. Between 2018 and 2020, right before the pandemic unfolded, numerous collected volumes were published on the relationship between the past, present, and future of women’s and gender history; on the forms of access for women to research and write; and on the historian’s profession between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Adopting different critical tools, these studies have contributed to the revival of the discussion of the interconnection between the personal, political, and professional dimensions of women’s history work, twenty years after the release of the collection edited by Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri.3 Since its inception, women’s and gender history has stood out for its distinct tendency to reflect on itself: from the seminal questions of the 1970s on the possibility of “making” women’s history to the debates that have followed about the state of the profession, the historiographical trajectories followed in various countries, the ability to transform mainstream historiographic practices, and how to educate new generations and how to have an impact on a wide audience (Asquer, et al., 25–34; Bertilotti, 45–53). Not infrequently, this intense work of introspection and synthesis has sprung up from a desire to measure women’s history against History, which is understood as an exclusive, professional academic prerogative of a male white elite. Even in the early 1990s, Hilda L. Smith and Bonnie G. Smith asked provocative questions and brought attention to the contemporary representations of the “noble dream” of historical research that had omitted women’s intellectual contributions and women’s history.4 Recently, Bonnie G. Smith has recalled that one of her articles on the contribution of women historians to modern French and Anglo-Saxon historiography did not resonate with members of the American Historical Association when...

“The Future of Women Is the Future of the Nation”: Marie-Élisabeth Cavé’s Drawing Manuals and Art Education in Nineteenth-Century France

French artist Marie-Élisabeth Cavé (ca. 1809–83) was a successful watercolorist whose works were frequently exhibited at the Parisian Salons and whose art manual Le dessin sans maitre: Méthode pour apprendre à dessiner de mémoire (1850; Drawing without a Master: The Cavé Method for Learning to Draw from Memory, 1868) achieved wide acclaim with multiple editions in the nineteenth century. Yet Cavé has not received much scholarly attention today. This article recovers the history of Cavé and repositions her as an agent of her own success. The simplicity and autonomy of her novel technique, which used repetition to cultivate visual memory, permitted students of all backgrounds to learn to draw. According to artist Eugène Delacroix, Cavé’s method was the only one that could meet the demands of a growing industrial nation. Remarkably, within these treatises, Cavé marshaled the medium of the art manual to inscribe her own ideas about women’s education and work, and to encourage women in nineteenth-century France to become professional artists.

Sarah Grand and the Woman Question: Dialectical Progress and Hope

One of the staunch advocates of women’s suffrage, Sarah Grand, expresses her hope in a better future for women in her novelistic and journalistic work. In her view, two contemporary types of individuals, here referred to as the New Woman and the New Man, play an essential role in engendering societal change that helps the woman’s cause. Extensive literary criticism of Grand’s oeuvre has identified the New Man in her later work. This essay establishes that as early as her <em>succès de scandale</em> novel, <em>The Heavenly Twins</em> (1893), and the articles published a year later, Grand conjoins the New Woman and the New Man to oppugn the Victorian doctrine of separate spheres and to underscore the progress of the women’s suffrage. She paints the arduous path to progress through the New Woman’s believable partners and advocates, adequate rather than idealized examples of New Men: Dr. Galbraith, Mr. Kilroy of Ilverthorpe, Dr. Shadwell and Mr. Price. Alongside these, Grand places three characters: Evadne Frayling, a potential suffragette who marks a regress from the advances of women’s movement; Angelica Hamilton-Wells, a potential New Woman who gains a political voice by writing her husband’s speeches; and Ideala, the New Woman, a model of behavior and harbinger of hope for the female readership. Drawing from Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold and Charles Darwin, Grand dismantles the typical Victorian ideas about woman and man to emphasize the importance of education in the lives of both. For women to achieve a personal identity, the New Man needs to support her to redefine, at least partially, the ‘nature’ of woman. Through her dramatizations of models of men and women who can bring about progress, Grand initiates her reader into the changes that can help the suffrage movement gain momentum and move forward.

The future of women's football in Asia: a look at competitive balance in top 5 domestic football leagues from 2010 to 2019

PurposeThis paper analyses competitive balance in the “big five” women's football leagues in Asia longitudinally between 2010 and 2019.Design/methodology/approachCompetitive balance has been measured using recognised measures of concentration, HICB and NHICB, alongside recognised measures of dominance, i.e., identification of top teams. A time-trend analysis has been employed to identify trends of CB in the respective leagues followed by ANOVA and relevant post-hoc tests to identify difference in concentration measures. A multiple linear regression analysis has been conducted to identify the impact of external economic factors on CB.FindingsSome significant differences were detected in the levels of concentration between leagues. There was also some variation in terms of some leagues being dominated by a fewer number of teams. However, these two measures of competitive balance (concentration and dominance) were not necessarily correlated with each other. The paper also tries to find the optimum number of teams to maintain CB in the women's football leagues in Asia, but an exact figure could not be found.Research limitations/implicationsSome significant differences were detected in the levels of concentration between leagues. There was also some variation in terms of some leagues being dominated by a fewer number of teams. However, these two measures of competitive balance (concentration and dominance) were not necessarily correlated with each other. External economic factors were found to have negative impact on CB.Originality/valueThe paper is an original research and aims to add to the growing body of CB research in world through analysis of competitive balance (ACB).

Effective investment in women's futures: Schooling with learning

Women's schooling has long been regarded as one of the best investments in development. Yet countries vary widely in the extent to which a year of schooling conveys useful skills and knowledge and hence schooling and education cannot be treated as synonyms. Using two different cross-nationally comparable data sets which contain measures of schooling, assessments of literacy, and life outcomes for more than 50 countries we show the association of women's education, defined as schooling and the acquisition of literacy, with four life outcomes (fertility, child mortality, empowerment, and financial practices) is much larger than the standard estimates of the gains from schooling alone. In our preferred instrumental variables (IV) estimates, that correct for the attenuation bias induced by measurement error, the gain from education is more than 3 times larger than the standard OLS estimates of gains from schooling alone. While our results are not causal estimates, if anything like our results are true in the causal pathways whereby schooling and learning lead to improvements in women's well-being this implies the estimates of the costs and benefits of expansions in grade attainment versus improving learning need to be adjusted accordingly.