Global Norms vs. Global Actors: International Politics, Muslim Identity, and Support for Shariʿa

Gorman, Brandon

doi:10.31235/osf.io/fmvpe

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“…Items were summed to create scores on Attitudes toward Women's Rights and Roles (Kostenko et al, 2016). Similar to past research examining women's rights indices in developing countries (Ciftci, 2012;Gorman, 2019;Kostenko et al, 2016;Kurzman et al, 2019), we found a modest coefficient alpha of 0.62.…”

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Employment and attitudes toward women among Syrian refugees

Baranik

2020

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PurposeThe current study examined employment rates and predictors of employment among Syrian refugees currently living in Lebanon and Jordan. This paper argues that men and women refugees have different experiences seeking out employment after resettlement due to patriarchal structures and attitudes toward women that are present in the Arab Middle East. The goals of this paper were a) to examine employment rates among Syrian refugees, b) to examine predictors of employment among male and female refugees, and c) to examine refugee status as a moderator of the relationship between attitudes toward women and employment status.Design/methodology/approachNationally representative data from the Arab Barometer on 600 refugees and 1400 native-born individuals living in Lebanon and Jordan from 2016–2017 were used.FindingsNative-born individuals living in Lebanon and Jordan were 2.16 times more likely to be employed than refugees. Men living in Lebanon and Jordan were 7.83 times more likely to be employed than women. Finally, refugee status moderated the relationship between attitudes toward women's rights and roles and employment. Among native-born women, a positive attitude toward women's rights and roles predicted employment status, whereas this positive relationship was not found for women refugees. Among refugee men, a positive attitude toward women's rights and roles was linked to a lower likelihood of holding a job.Practical implicationsThese findings suggest that agencies supporting refugees should communicate realistic expectations about employment during resettlement and should address the challenges that women refugees face when seeking employment.Originality/valueThis study is the first study to identify attitudes toward women's rights and roles as a predictor of employment among refugee populations and highlights the unique struggles that refugee women face.

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Employment and attitudes toward women among Syrian refugees

Baranik

2020

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“…The tension between these judgments is the focus of considerable research. Zakia Salime (2011) and Brandon Gorman (2019) , for example, have explored the competition and interaction between women’s movements in North Africa that promote European-inspired ideals and movements that adopt Islamic discourses of gender equality. Rajaram and Zararia (2009) investigate three women’s rights organizations in one city in India—each group drawing on leftist, feminist, or local approaches to rights—that even use different words for rights.…”

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Women’s Assessments of Gender Equality

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Gorman

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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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“…Tounissiet also opposed it. They believe that most Tunisians favor the existing law as observant Muslims and do not wish to divorce it from Islam, which polling data supports (Gorman 2019, Quillen 2018.…”

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Strategic Choices: How Conservative Women Activists Remained Active throughout Tunisia's Democratic Transition

Youssef

2022

Sociological Forum

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Gender politics scholars conclude that conservatives and religious actors curtail women's rights and political participation during a democratic transition, except in post-conflict contexts. Yet, this was not the case in Tunisia. This article documents how Islamist women activists remained active throughout the democratic transition in Tunisia. I argue that Islamist women within Tounissiet remained politically active by making two strategic choices: (1) not challenging conservatives and (2) aligning with liberal feminists when it was in their interest. This article builds on the emerging scholarship on women's roles in a democratic transition, especially conservative women, by providing original empirical work on an Islamist women's rights organization in a democratizing Tunisia. I suggest that more needs to be understood about conservative women and new actors that democratic transitions empower and embolden.

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Global Norms vs. Global Actors: International Politics, Muslim Identity, and Support for Shariʿa

Cited by 3 publications

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Employment and attitudes toward women among Syrian refugees

Employment and attitudes toward women among Syrian refugees

Women’s Assessments of Gender Equality

Strategic Choices: How Conservative Women Activists Remained Active throughout Tunisia's Democratic Transition

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