GENDER EQUALITY: PROBLEMS‚ STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS Mari Teigen Institute for Social Research Bergen‚ 20. september 2012 Outline • Problems • Strategies • Solutions Institutt for samfunnsforskning www.samfunnsforskning.no The Principle of Gender Equality • Parity Participation / Everyones right to participate on an equal footing • • • Economical participation Cultural participation Political participation • Multi-dimensionality Institutt for samfunnsforskning
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ARCHETYPAL SETTINGS 1. The River – Almost any source of water will focus on the importance of life. Without water there is no life. A journey on or down a river is often a metaphor for life’s journey or a character’s journey‚ especially if the river is shown as a road or means of travel – pulling or pushing a character through changes. (Twain’s Huck Finn) Rivers can also be a metaphor for the passage of time (Big Fish) or the stages of a human life (creek‚ roaring river‚ sea; or the crossing of
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working with new children it is important that you integrate them successfully by making them feel welcome. Working with other agencies could for example make sure that a child in a wheel chair arrives at their new setting with the correct equipment to help them. In my setting and other settings such as childrens centres or extended schools we respond to the wider needs of young children and their families. Working with children often includes working with people from outside agencies and Multi-agency
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Unit 306 Promote equality‚ diversity and inclusion in work with children and young people Outcome 1 Promote equality and diversity in work with children and young people Assessment Criteria The learner can: 1.1 identify the current legislation and codes of practice relevant to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity 1.2 explain the importance of promoting the rights of all children and young people to participation and equality of access 1.3 explain the importance and benefits
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The Concept of Equality Equality issues * Equality = justice/ * No – identical rights‚ opportunities + treatment * = impractical + not desirable e.g. young offenders have special treatments (immature) * Gaps in equality (preferential treatment) * Appropriate serve moral + social goals in society. * Individual differences = social + economic inequalities * Justice treating everyone equally regardless of differences * Differential treatment or discrimination
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What factors affect equality in the community? How can “equality” be defined and deconstructed to assess its components? In order to achieve equality‚ it can be studied as a result of freedom in the community. In the works of Alexis de Tocqueville‚ he addressed the role equality and individualism played in social change that impacted the state as a community. On the contrary‚ Karl Marx wrote regarding how equality can be achieved through communism and industrial liberation. The argument presented
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EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY South Asian countries have fundamentally regarded economic development as a political matter. Another thing that differentiates South Asia is her commitment to egalitarianism in terms of planning. In terms of guiding beliefs‚ there is a similarity between South Asia and the West. However‚ a time dimension is involved. During West Asia’s development period‚ social welfare was still in its early stages. Social welfare was part of abstracts by scholars and even rebels
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Although freedom and equality are values that American’s hold dear to their hearts‚ they are difficult to enforce to an entire nation from the perspective of the US government. Freedom was easier breaking from the colonial days to a new constitutional government‚ one reason was because there was less people to govern‚ and secondly because only first class citizens (white male) had any true freedom to do whatever they we interested in. This was the case because all men were not created equal in the
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bodies have defined gender equality in terms of human rights‚ especially women’s rights‚ and economic development.[12][13] UNICEF describes that gender equality "means that women and men‚ and girls and boys‚ enjoy the same rights‚ resources‚ opportunities and protections. It does not require that girls and boys‚ or women and men‚ be the same‚ or that they be treated exactly alike."[14] The United Nations Population Fund has declared that men and women have a right to equality.[15] "Gender equity" is
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Equality for every individual is something that we as Americans strive to provide and maintain for the current and future generations. The idea of equality for all has become an integral and necessary part of our American culture. Without equality for all‚ we cannot function as one nation under one flag. It has become such an important ideal and concept of American culture‚ that whenever people think of America‚ they naturally and automatically think of freedom and equality. In the pursuit of equality
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