Femmes, économie et développement

Verschuur, Christine

doi:10.3917/eres.gueri.2011.01.0185

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“…At a time when the gender approach is accompanied by transformations in social relations between men and women, the question of gender relations in the entrepreneurial world is attracting interest from the academic world. While women are still more or less confronted with various obstacles and much resistance that hinder their investment in entrepreneurship, we observe at the same time that the feminization of activities is part of a questioning of power relations between men and women at the domestic level, in organizations and political instances (Verschuur, 2011). Gender approach in the field of entrepreneurship can only be grasped by taking into account the mechanisms of the historical exclusion of women from this field.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…If it is true that the acts and actions we do, which make us a man or a woman, produce “masculine” or “feminine” identities – according to our belonging to one or the other of these categories, we internalize norms of femininity and masculinity – the gap between men and women finds its origin in what Löwy (2006) describes as “grip of the gender”. However, if inequalities persist, neither identities nor gender relations are immutable (Verschuur, 2011).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship and Gender: Two Dissociable Concepts?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The transgressions of the kinds observable in the sectors of building, agriculture and many others, participate in the questioning of the inequalities of kind. The perspective of exceeding gender as an “objective” (Guichard-Claudic and Kergoat, 2007) opens avenues for reflections and subtle transformations (Verschuur, 2011).…”

Section: Which Trajectories Toward the Erasure Of Differences Between Genres?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Toward a “reconfiguration of the material and ideal foundations” of gendered entrepreneurship?

Etogo

2019

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Purpose This paper aims to analyze social sex relations by hypothesizing a reconfiguration, in a future time, of the “material and ideal foundations” of gendered entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The approach consisted in adopting the gender approach in order to identify, on the one hand, the material and ideal elements that underlie the dominant entrepreneurial ethos; on the other hand, to question, starting from a “heuristic hypothesis”, the emergence, in a future time, of representations, behaviors and practices opposable to the dominant entrepreneurial ethos. Findings The research outcomes reveal that by investing in traditionally male bastions, women develop entrepreneurial dynamics detached from any gendered approach. This approach suggests how the representations, behaviors and practices related to the dominant entrepreneurial ethos can be modified. Originality/value At a great distance from some “naturalization of competences”, this paper deals with the modalities that contribute to overcoming the principles of gender differentiation. It proposes a theoretical framework to understand how the mobilization of the gender approach, characterized by the lack of differentiation of skills, invites, from a “heuristic hypothesis”, a questioning of the dominant entrepreneurial ethos.

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Toward a “reconfiguration of the material and ideal foundations” of gendered entrepreneurship?

Etogo

2019

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“…In 2006, under Lula I, the Ministry of Cities adopted the Resolution 004/2006, which gives priority to low income families with a women head of household within their public housing programs (SPM, 2007). In 2007, housing movement activists proposed that joint property titles be given when distributing public housing to low-income families so that women are protected against losing their home in the case of separation and divorce (Verschuur, 2011); which it is of great importance to rural women. In 2008, this measure (of joint titling) was integrated into the ambitious federal housing program Minha casa, Minha vida, whose goal is to build housing units for low-income families.…”

Section: Property Titles and Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Brazilian women’s movement and the state under the PT national governments

Bohn

Lévy

2019

ERLACS

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Certain segments of the Brazilian Women's Movement (BWM) developed important strategic partnerships with the state under the PT federal government. This article demonstrates how these partnerships had both inclusionary and exclusionary effects on gender-centric policy outcomes. Using a mix-method approach which includes extensive in-depth interviews with BMW activists and archival data from governmental sources, the Brazilian experience illustrates that "entering the state" headed by a women-ally president facilitates funnelling some of the women's movement's demands into the state. However, hierarchies within the movement itself, the congressional strength of the head of executive and the activism of some of its socially-conservative legislative allies can severely temper that effect.

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“…Women have always been present in social movements (West and Blumberg, 1990), but there is a limited amount of literature on women in mixed social movements in general (Bhattacharjya et al, 2013;Kuumba, 2001;Robnett, 1997) and even less in Brazil (Corcoran-Nantes, 1990;Perry, 2013;Verschuur, 2011). This is a paradox, since women often make up at least half of the members but only a small percentage of the leaders.…”

Section: Women In Urban Popular Movement Organizationsmentioning

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Gendering the Urban Social Movement and Public Housing Policy in São Paulo

Lévy¹,

Latendresse²,

Carle-Marsan³

2016

Latin American Perspectives

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A deteriorating economic scenario, a critical mass of unmarried female heads of households, and the institutionalization of the São Paulo housing movement in the 2000s contributed to women’s taking on a new public role within the movement. The strong presence of women at different levels of this social movement was a necessary but not determining factor in generating public awareness about gender-differentiated needs and claims for access to housing. Female leadership and a strategic alliance with the women’s movement and with nongovernmental organizations and local elected officials contributed to the development of gender-specific public housing policies. O cenário de deterioração econômica, a massa crítica de mulheres solteiras na qualidade de chefes de família, bem como a institucionalização do movimento por moradia em São Paulo no início deste século contribuíram para que as mulheres desempenhassem um novo papel nessa ação. A forte presença de mulheres em diferentes esferas desse movimento social foi um fator necessário, embora não determinante, para gerar consciência social sobre o acesso à moradia baseado em diferenças de gênero. A liderança feminina e a aliança estratégica do movimento das mulheres, além da participação de organizações não-governamentais e de políticos eleitos, auxiliaram no desenvolvimento de políticas públicas para moradias com base na especificidade de gênero.

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Femmes, économie et développement

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Toward a “reconfiguration of the material and ideal foundations” of gendered entrepreneurship?

Toward a “reconfiguration of the material and ideal foundations” of gendered entrepreneurship?

The Brazilian women’s movement and the state under the PT national governments

Gendering the Urban Social Movement and Public Housing Policy in São Paulo

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