Women In Government Research Articles

Women in government, public corruption, and liberal democracy: a panel analysis

Ever since a 2001 World Bank report, many policymakers have come to accept a gender-based approach to corruption control, which posits that women in government reduce corruption because females are more ethical than males. An alternative explanation asserting the spuriousness of the gender-corruption link suggests that both gender equality and lower corruption result from a functioning liberal democracy. In this study, eight hypotheses are formulated and tested with longitudinal data for 204 countries. Findings demonstrate that neither the level of women in government nor a change in it has any impact on the prevalence and/or short-term trend of corruption. But both the strength of liberal institutions and an increase in this strength predict the prevalence and trend of corruption.

Barriers to Continuing Education among Working Muslim Women in Government and Semi-Government Organizations in Malaysia

The forces of the knowledge-based and global economy have made it essential for every citizen to contribute towards the development of the country. In the case of Malaysia where women comprise a crucial half of the productive workforce, their contribution can have significant impact on the country's development. Today many Muslim women in Malaysia are educated and making important contribution to the country's economy and monetary contribution towards better standard of living for their families. However, not many women further their education once they have joined the workforce and started their families. This article reports on research conducted among 85 Muslim women working in eight government and semi-government departments in Perak (a northern state in Malaysia) and seeks to provide information on their (a) reasons for non-participation and (b) relationship between reasons for non-participation and demographic variables. Data indicated three barriers: financial constraints, family commitment and lack of benefits which reflect situational and dispositional barriers consistent with earlier findings. The inquiries also showed that demographic characteristics together with deterrent factors do have an impact on women particularly in advancing their education.

The Grace Abbott Reader

Introduction John Sorensen Edith Abbott and Sister's Memories Grace Abbott: A Biographical Timeline Part 1: Immigrants Introduction: Hull House Days (ca. 1952) Edith Abbott 1. The Immigrant Girl (1909) 2. The Education of Foreigners in American Citizenship (1910) 3. The Immigrant as a Problem in Community Planning (1917) 4. Problems of the Immigrant Girl (1917) Part 2: Children Introduction: The Maternity and Infancy Revolution (ca. 1952) Edith Abbott 5. A Constitutional Amendment (1920) 6. Public Protection for Children (1924) 7. Perpetuating May Day (1929) 8. The Next Steps (1929) 9. Boarding Out (1930) 10. The Challenge of Child Welfare (1931) 11. The Real American Vice (1931) 12. The Washington Traffic Jam (1931) 13. Why Did Child Labor Ever Develop in America? (ca. 1933) 14. Promoting the Welfare of All Children (1937) 15. Children and the Depression (pub. 1941) Part 3: Women Introduction: How Women Achieve in Government (1939) Frances Perkins 16. Dorothea Dix (1926) 17. Women (1933) 18. The Changing Position of Women in Government (1930) Postscript Dr. Jeanne C. Marsh Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Gender Balance and the Meanings of Women in Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Across Africa many countries have taken initiatives to increase the participation and representation of women in governance. Yet it is unclear what meaning these initiatives have in authoritarian single-party states like Rwanda. Since seizing power in 1994 the Rwandan Patriotic Front has taken many steps to increase the participation of women in politics such as creating a Ministry of Gender organizing womens councils at all levels of government and instituting an electoral system with reserved seats for women in the national parliament. This article explores the dramatic increase in womens participation in public life and representation in governance and the increasing authoritarianism of the Rwandan state under the guise of democratization. The increased political participation of women in Rwanda represents a paradox in the short term: as their participation has increased womens ability to influence policy making has decreased. In the long term however increased female representation in government could prepare the path for their meaningful participation in a genuine democracy because of a transformation in political subjectivity. (authors)

Is There a “Woman's Way” of Governing? Assessing the Organizational Structures of Women's Membership Associations

To what extent do women's organizations share a common commitment to organizational participatory democracy? Research suggests that women appear more likely than men to prefer democratic decision-making processes, yet these studies generally compare women's and men's behavior in organizations that are not only numerically dominated by men but that were also initially formed by men. I examine the electoral and policymaking rules of 37 membership-based women's associations in order to determine the extent to which the bylaws of women's groups exhibit the high levels of democracy predicted by the theoretical and empirical literature. I find that levels of democracy in women's associations vary more than research on women's governance would suggest. I then explore factors that influence the observed variation in women's groups. I find that the extent to which a women's group relies on membership dues, the year it was founded, and, to a lesser extent, its size affect how democratically it is structured. I conclude by considering the implications of these findings for the representation of women's diverse political and economic interests.

Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650) (review)

Reviewed by: Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650) Siân Echard (bio) Mark Crane, Richard Raiswell, and Margaret Reeves , editors. Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650) Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. xiv, 334. $53.00 Shell Games is a collection of thirteen essays concerned with lying and truth-telling in western Europe in the medieval and early modern period. The many different kinds of lies - deceit, perjury, fraud, impersonation, playacting - all serve to throw ideas about truth into high relief. The earliest case dealt with is Robert of Artois's ultimately unsuccessful attempt, in 1329, to claim the county of Artois through an elaborate edifice of perjured witnesses and forged letters; the latest concerns the fabrication of the story of the Yorkshire prophetess Mother Shipton, examining the layers added to her myth from the seventeenth century to the present day. The essays range across borders and centuries in their pursuit of liars both historical and literary. Inevitably there is some disorientation for a reader trying to track these ne'er-do-wells across so broad a canvas, but the individual essays generally make for fascinating reading. Richard Raiswell's introduction unpacks the exposure of the Boxley Rood in 1538 to show how frauds can offer a window into mentalités. After an overview of ideas about truth and lies in the medieval and early modern period, the essays follow, grouped into five thematic sections. There are three essays in the first section, 'Knowledge for Sale.' Tara E. Nummedal ' s discussion of fraud in early modern alchemy centres on practitioners and their patrons in the Holy Roman Empire. Both this essay and Paul M. Dover's study of diplomacy in late fifteenth-century Milan argue that we must abandon present-day assumptions - that alchemists were charlatans, [End Page 250] or that early modern Italian court culture was characterized by deception - in order to understand what German princes expected of alchemists, or how Italian resident diplomats went about the business of collecting information. The section's theme, the commodification of learning, is seen most clearly in Sarah Knight's study of the scholar-mountebank of Jacobean satire. She shows how competition for economic advantage produced both academic impostors and vitriolic literary criticism of those impostors. The second section, 'Reputation and Honour,' is less thematically cohesive. Michael Cichon reads the deceptions in Titus Andronicus through the lens of anthropological theory about feud. Steven Bednarski's examination of two cases of fraud prosecuted in Provence in the late fourteenth century considers how the constraints upon the women involved produced their frauds and governed the reactions to those frauds. Roni Weinstein ' s account of courting games between unmarried Jewish youth in early modern Italy shows how game-playing could shade into reality. The third section, 'Government of Women,' links fraud to issues of gender. Georgia Wilder examines the impersonation of the voice of female petitioners in the pamphlet wars of the English Revolution, while Núria Silleras-Fernández explores the attempts of two late fourteenth-century Aragonese queens to take some control over their destinies through fraud. The essays in 'An Idle Press' deal with the opportunities and anxieties presented and represented by the transition to print. Allyson F. Creasman shows the many tricks used by the printers of Augsburg in the mid-sixteenth century to circumvent the censors, while Michael Long explores the connections between the shady practices of seventeenth-century English popular printers and the negative reputations of those who wrote for the popular press. Finally, 'Inventing the Past' offers three essays which consider the wilful reinvention of history: Johannes C. Wolfart's study of the Lindau archives; Dana L. Sample's essay on the Robert of Artois case; and David A. Wilson's excursion through the development of Mother Shipton's myth. It is not always clear why some essays appear in one section and not in another - a slightly different articulation of the relationship between gender and fraud would have grouped Bednarski with Silleras-Fernández, for example, while Wilder's piece would fit well with other essays particularly concerned with print culture. Because so many of the early modern essays...

Women Leading Change: The Case for Oral Health

At a recent annual session of Executive Women in Government, I had a very special experience listening to one of the keynote speakers, Dr. Laura Liswood of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. As she talked about her interviews with women world leaders, I was struck by the

Women in Governance for Development at Grassroots

Women in Governance for Development at Grassroots

Women and political power: Europe since 1945

1. Introduction 2. Slow Progress, 1945-1970 3. Second Wave Feminism - the 1970's and early 1980's 4. Women and Political Parties 5. Women in Government 6. Women in Local Government 7. The International Context: Impact of the European Union and United Nations 8. Electoral Systems 9. Conclusion: Do Women Make a Difference? 10. Guide to Further Reading

CONFRONTIN POLICY FRAGMENTATION: A POLITICAL APPROACH TO THE ROLE OF HOUSING NONPROFITS

Review of Policy ResearchVolume 18, Issue 4 p. 111-127 CONFRONTIN POLICY FRAGMENTATION: A POLITICAL APPROACH TO THE ROLE OF HOUSING NONPROFITS Julia Koschinsky, Julia Koschinsky Director, Policy Information Network Center for Women in Government and Civil Society SUNY, Albany, New York Julia Koschinsky received a Masters from the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany with a specialization in housing policy and nonprofits. She presently works as the Director of the Policy Information Network at the Center for Women in Government in Albany New York.Search for more papers by this authorTodd Swanstrom, Todd Swanstrom Department of Public Policy Studies School of Public Service Saint Louis University Todd Swanstrom is Professor of Public Policy in the school of Public Service at Saint Louis University. He is the author of The Crisis of Growth Politics (Temple University press, 1985) co-author (with Dennis Judd) of City Politics: Private Power and Public Policy, 2nd ed. (Longman, 2002). He recently co-authored (with Peter Dreier and John Mollenkopf) Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty First Century, which examines the relationship between suburban sprawl and central city and inner city declineSearch for more papers by this author Julia Koschinsky, Julia Koschinsky Director, Policy Information Network Center for Women in Government and Civil Society SUNY, Albany, New York Julia Koschinsky received a Masters from the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany with a specialization in housing policy and nonprofits. She presently works as the Director of the Policy Information Network at the Center for Women in Government in Albany New York.Search for more papers by this authorTodd Swanstrom, Todd Swanstrom Department of Public Policy Studies School of Public Service Saint Louis University Todd Swanstrom is Professor of Public Policy in the school of Public Service at Saint Louis University. He is the author of The Crisis of Growth Politics (Temple University press, 1985) co-author (with Dennis Judd) of City Politics: Private Power and Public Policy, 2nd ed. (Longman, 2002). He recently co-authored (with Peter Dreier and John Mollenkopf) Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty First Century, which examines the relationship between suburban sprawl and central city and inner city declineSearch for more papers by this author First published: 24 June 2005 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-1338.2001.tb00209.xCitations: 3 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume18, Issue4December 2001Pages 111-127 RelatedInformation

AN ARISTOPHANIC CONTRAST TO PHILIPPIANS 2.6–7

Commentators often note that the emphasis in Phil 2.6–7 on Christ's selfless giving is quite contrary to pagan concepts of divinity. N. T. Wright, for example, writes that αρπαγμoς, when construed as an abstract noun meaning ‘snatching’, ‘grasping’, or ‘getting’, ‘refers, intransitively, to a particular way of life, namely, that which characterized pagan rulers, and indeed pagan gods and goddesses such as the Philippians might have worshipped in their pre-Christian days’. Yet no commentator to my knowledge has referred to the excellent example of the grasping nature of pagan deities found in Aristophanes’ comedy the Ecclesiazusae (‘Women in Government’).

Women at the Crossroads: Women in Governance

Women in civil society and women Parliamentarians met to strategise on how to build on the gains made over the first four years of democracy especially in the light of the upcoming election. Women need to check gender issues are prioritised by their parties, write MIRJAM VAN DONK and MALETSATSI MACEBA

"Broke in Spirits": Death, Depression, and Endurance through Writing

Women's history has often been described as an attempt to recover lost and hidden histories. Within those hidden histories are the voices of generations of mothers and grandmothers, women who may have been too reticent to share many aspects of their lives, even with those closest to them. Although the parameters of women's history have widened considerably in the last thirty years, there are many facets of the female experience that have yet to be explored fully. The public lives of American women are fairly well documented. Women in government and in the workplace left tangible, visible evidence of their presence. The private lives of women and their families are another matter altogether. The evidence of how women lived their lives within the home tends to be scattered and fragmentary, often leaving questions of enormous interest to historians unan

Gender In Third World Development Studies: An Overview Of An Underview

This paper reviews twenty years progress in the study of gender in Third World development and the extent to which gender has been incorporated within mainstream development theory and practice. Special reference is made to the role geography has played in this arena. It is argued that while gender as a theoretical framework for explaining women's differential but continued subordination should be reaching maturity, there has been little attempt to formulate cohesive models which integrate micro‐and macro‐level concepts and which could provide a firm base for future theory‐building. More important, studies of gender in the Third World development have seldom addressed the question of development policy or put forward practical solutions for the integration of gender issues in development planning. As a case study of gender in development planning the paper examines the Australian Government's women in development (WID) policy, the ways in which it was informed, and the extent to which it has been implemented.

Women's Struggle for Governance in U.S. Amateur Athletics

There has been a long struggle for governance in U.S. amateur women's athletics. During 1920-1940 two women's sport organizations attempted to control female athletics in conflict with the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). Women did achieve authority over educational athletics, but not public sports. Through 1960-1980 a women's governance association (AIAW) controlled women's collegiate athletics. However, after a decade, the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) took control of AIAW. Individual governing bodies also govern men's and women's Olympic sports. The NAGWS lost authority in educational athletics. Women lost decision-making roles, and now have only limited access to governance in U.S. amateur athletics.

Thinking about Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender

Each chapter includes Summary, Key Terms, and Discussion Questions/Projects for I.INTRODUCTION. 1.Studying Women: Feminist Perspectives. The Sociological Imagination. Defining Feminism. Women's Studies and the Inclusion of Women. The Sociological Framework for Thinking about Women. II.GENDER, SEX, AND CULTURE. 2.The Social Construction of Gender. Sex, Gender, and Sexuality. The Institutional Basis of Gender. Sex Differences: Biology and Gender. Socialization and the Formation of Gender Identity. Socialization across the Life Course. Theoretical Perspectives on the Formation of Gender. Limitations of the Socialization Perspective. 3.Gender and Culture: The Social Construction of Knowledge. Gender, Language, and Popular Culture. Gendered Images in the Media. The Sociology of Knowledge. Women and Educational Thought. Gender, Science, and Society. 4.Sexuality and Intimate Relationships. The Social Construction of Sexuality. The History of Sexuality in the United States. Contemporary Sexual Attitudes and Behavior. Race, Sexuality, and Power. Sexual Development over the Life Cycle. Love and Intimate Relationships. Friendship. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences. III.GENDER AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS. 5.Women, Work, and the Economy. Historical Perspectives on Women's Work. What Is Work? Gender and Class Stratification. The Contemporary Status of Women. Poverty and Welfare. Work Environments for Women. Intersections of Family and Work. Policies for Gender Equity. 6.Women and Families. Historical Perspectives on Modern Families. Feminist Perspectives on Families. Portraits of Contemporary Households. Race, Gender, and Families. Families and Social Problems. 7.Women, Health, and Reproduction. The Social Structure of Health. Race, Class, and Health. Women, Work, and Health. Gender, Health, and Social Problems. The Politics of Reproduction: Birth Control, Abortion, and Childbirth. Women and the Health Care System. 8.Women and Religion. Sociological Perspectives on Religion. Religion and Social Control. Religion and the Emergence of Feminism in the United States. Women and Religiosity. Women's Status in Religious Institutions. Religion, Racism, and Social Change. Religion as a Basis for Antifeminism. Faith, Feminism, and Spirituality. 9.Women, Crime, and Deviance. Origins of Deviance Theory. Sociological Perspectives on Crime and Deviance. Women as Criminals. Women as Victims of Crime. Women in the Criminal Justice System. 10.Women, Power, and Politics. Defining Power. Women and the State. Women and the Law. Women in Government. Women and the Military. Rethinking the Political. The Women's Movement. IV.FEMINIST THEORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE. 11.Women and Social Reform: Liberal Feminism. Frameworks of Feminist Theory. The Liberal Basis of Modern Feminism. Liberalism as a Mode of Social Thought. An Enlightenment for Women? Mary Wollstonecraft. Harriet Martineau. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill. The Critique of Liberalism. 12.Radical Alternatives: Socialist and Radical Feminism. The Political Context of Radical Feminism. The Marxist Perspective. Socialist Feminism. Family and Economy in Capitalist Society. Radical Feminism. Intersections of Capitalism and Patriarchy. Comparing Liberal and Radical Feminism. 13.Conclusion: New Directions in Feminist Theory. Feminist Epistemology. Feminism and Postmodernism. Feminism and the Analysis of Race, Class, and Gender. Glossary. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.

Women in Government: A View From Québec

Women in Government: A View From Québec

Books: Notes & reviews

Australian T. Brennan, New Community, Problems and Policies, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1973, pp. 353, $3.95. J. E. Richardson, Patterns of Australian Federalism, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Research Monograph No. 1, ANU, Canberra, 1973, pp. 142 + x, $4.00. Australian Women in Governments Past and Present, revised as of July, 1973, pp. 15. Survey of Women in Local Government in Australia, 3rd edn, September, 1973, pp. 60. Both compiled by A. Viola Smith, 6 Baden Road, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089. The Government Law Newsletter (the Newsletter of the Government Law Interest Group of the Australasian Universities Law Schools Association), No. 1, August, 1970; from No. 2, March, 1972, issued twice a year. Editor: Stan Hotop, University of Sydney Law School, 173–5 Phillip St, Sydney, NSW 2000. Free. Australian Law Librarians’ Group Newsletter, No. 1, December, 1973. Six times a year. Editor: Robert Watt, Law Reform Commission, Box 6, GPO, Sydney, NSW 2001. Free. Non‐Australian Jeffrey L. Pres...

Participation of Women in Government

Participation of Women in Government

Foreign and Comparative Government Women Servants of the State, 1870–1938 (London: George Allen and Unwin, pp. 218, 7s. 6d.), by Hilda Martindale

Foreign and Comparative Government Women Servants of the State, 1870–1938 (London: George Allen and Unwin, pp. 218, 7s. 6d.), by Hilda Martindale