Does the Global North Still Dominate Women's International Organizing? A Network Analysis From 1978 to 2008*

Hughes, Melanie M.; Paxton, Pamela; Quinsaat, Sharon M.; Reith, Nicholas E.

doi:10.17813/1086-671x-23-1-1

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“…These universalist approaches have been promoted disproportionately by women from wealthy societies of the Global North ( Hughes et al 2018 ; Merry 2007 ), whose perspectives may not represent the priorities of women in the rest of the world. A number of women’s movements have raised subjectivist objections to universalist approaches to gender equality.…”

Section: Two Centuries Of Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s Assessments of Gender Equality

Kurzman

Dong

Gorman

et al. 2019

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Women’s assessments of gender equality do not consistently match global indices of gender inequality. In surveys covering 150 countries, women in societies rated gender-unequal according to global metrics such as education, health, labor-force participation, and political representation did not consistently assess their lives as less in their control or less satisfying than men did. Women in these societies were as likely as women in index-equal societies to say they had equal rights with men. Their attitudes toward gender issues did not reflect the same latent construct as in index-equal societies, although attitudes may have begun to converge in recent years. These findings reflect a longstanding tension between universal criteria of gender equality and an emphasis on subjective understandings of women’s priorities.

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Section: Two Centuries Of Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s Assessments of Gender Equality

Kurzman

Dong

Gorman

et al. 2019

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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“…Berkovitch (1999) first compiled memberships in WINGOs by country from 1875 to 1985 from the Yearbook of International Organizations (Union of International Associations, various years). Recently, Hughes et al (2017Hughes et al ( , 2018 expand this list to include data through 2008 while further updating the list of WINGOs by searching for terms specific to women's INGOs from print and online editions of the Yearbook. We use their measure and log it to allow for percentage-level interpretations of the coefficients.…”

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

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Global linkages, the higher education pipeline, and national contexts: The worldwide growth of women faculty, 1970–2012

Wotipka

Nakagawa

Svec

2018

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Despite the surge in women’s enrollments in higher education over the last several decades, women continue to be unequally represented in faculty careers around the world. In this article, we use data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to examine and explain regional and global trends in percentages of women faculty within 92 countries from 1970 to 2012. Drawing on world society and development perspectives, we posit that women’s representation among faculty is influenced by a combination of global norms of justice and women’s rights as well as national contexts. Results of descriptive analyses show remarkable growth over time for all world regions, although gender parity has yet to be reached. Using country fixed effects panel regression strategies, we find that countries with higher levels of women who earn higher education degrees, stronger linkages to global norms of women’s rights, and higher levels of economic development are more likely to have higher percentages of women faculty, with the caveat that the effect of economic development is conditioned by national levels of women’s caregiving burdens. Although the pipeline argument serves as a popular narrative, women’s access to higher education is only part of the story; our analyses indicate that percentages of women faculty are shaped by the intersection of norms, national contexts, and human capital.

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“…Schlozman et al (1995: 268) addressed these questions by examining the idea that women are more likely than men to anchor their participation in concern for the good of the community; to be active on behalf of issues involving children and families, human welfare, broadly shared interests such as consumer or environmental concerns, and international peace ... while noting that by looking only at formal repertoires that political scientists are not considering repertoires of participation that are also fundamental for the study of gendered political participation. Verba and Nie (1972: 181) found that 'compared to men, women are slightly less likely to be affiliated with an organization' and yet -more recently, women's organizations have contributed to promoting dialogue around the world (Hughes et al, 2018). Verba et al (1978b: 235) noted that while they 'had expected to find a different sex-related participatory pattern for campaign and communal activity', they found no differences.…”

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Gender inequalities in political participation and political engagement among young people in Europe: Are young women less politically engaged than young men?

Grasso

Smith

2021

Politics

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This paper contributes to the literature by examining gender inequalities in political participation and political engagement among young people from a comparative perspective. By analyzing data on young people from nine European countries collected in 2018, we examine gender inequalities in participation in various modes of conventional and unconventional activism as well as related attitudes, broader political engagement and key determinants, cross-nationally, in order to provide a detailed picture of the current state of gender inequalities in political activism among young people in Europe. Our results allow us to speak to extant theorizing about gender inequalities by showing that the extent of political inequality between young men and women is less marked than one might expect. While the gender gaps in political participation for activities such as confrontational types of protest are small or absent, we find that young women are actually more active in petitioning, buycotting, and volunteering in the community. Young men instead are more active than young women in a majority of the nine countries analysed with respect to more institutional forms of participation linked to organizations and parties, various types of online political participation, and broader political engagement measures, such as internal political efficacy and consumption of political news through various channels. However, young men also appear to be more sceptical at least of certain aspects of democratic practice relative to young women.

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Does the Global North Still Dominate Women's International Organizing? A Network Analysis From 1978 to 2008*

Cited by 24 publications

References 32 publications

Women’s Assessments of Gender Equality

Women’s Assessments of Gender Equality

Global linkages, the higher education pipeline, and national contexts: The worldwide growth of women faculty, 1970–2012

Gender inequalities in political participation and political engagement among young people in Europe: Are young women less politically engaged than young men?

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