Gender Responsiveness in the Juvenile Justice System Abigail Comee-McCourt Independent Study‚ IND 494 Professor Rankis June 10‚ 2008 Contents Summary and Introduction 3 What is Gender Responsiveness? 4 Why is Gender Responsive Care Important? 6 How is Maine Doing? 9 Suggested Online Readings 12 References 13 Appendix A: Survey response rate by county 14 Female caseload by respondent 15 Gender Responsive Training
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Gender equality requires equal enjoyment by women and men of socially-valued goods‚ opportunities‚ resources and rewards. Where gender inequality exists‚ it is generally women who are excluded or disadvantaged in relation to decision-making and access to economic and social resources. Therefore a critical aspect of promoting gender equality is the empowerment of women‚ with a focus on identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving women more autonomy to manage their own lives. Gender equality
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ELIMINATION DIVISION WP 5 GENDER AND POVERTY* Nilüfer Cagatay May 1998 WORKING PAPER SERIES *The responsibility for opinions in these articles‚ studies and other contributions in this series rests solely with their authors‚ and publication does not constitute an endorsement by the United Nations Development Programme or the institutions of the United Nations system. Table Of Contents Introduction I. II. Women And Poverty: Are Women Poorer? From Women and Poverty to Gender and Poverty A. Engendering
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Gender Investigation "Gender inequalities exist" 1. Adult literacy rate As the first indicator of gender inequalities to prove that it is present throughout the world I chose adult literacy rate. In developing countries women have less chance to get basic education as men‚ so this indicator clearly shows the differences between genders. As we can see on the graph‚ where adult literacy rate of women(Graph1) and men (Graph2) are compared to the income per person of the country‚ the biggest inequalities
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Similar to Atwood’s presentation of Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Tennyson’s poem Mariana is a dramatic monologue which depicts a passive woman who‚ it would appear‚ cannot cope without a man‚ and believes she lacks purpose. The poem concerns the decay of the world Mariana lives in‚ such as ‘the lonely grange’ and the moss crusting over the flowerpots‚ as well as her own psychological decay as she anticipates and yearns for her absent lover. Her own decay is apparent through the repetition of the
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Sex and Gender Sex and gender make up one of the most basic functions in our society. Gender helps delineate tasks and how we refer to people‚ and is reinforced for us throughout our lives (Lorber 2006). Gender interacts with sex in varying ways (Disch 2006). Those who are not strictly heterosexual male or female are not readily accepted and face adversity as they bend gender and defy sex. It has long been debated whether there is a difference between sex and gender‚ and if so‚ what that difference
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How does gender impact on ‘life chances’ and our everyday life experiences? Through human culture‚ we can see how life chances (political theory of the opportunities each individual has to improve his or her quality of life) and the life experiences of a human being are a mere social construction according to their sex‚ gender identity and role they play in society. This creates inequality between people in society. ‘Sex depends on whether you were born with distinct male or female genitals and
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Gender Inequality In The Home Remains An Issue In Family Life. Gender inqualities often stem from social structures that have instiutionalized conceptions of gender differences. Gender inequality has been around for centuries. In many family homes‚ their lives evolve around gender roles. The responibilties in the family are allocated to their sex (gender). There are certain tasks which are usually allocated to males and females. Some see this division as biologolical differences between the
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Can gender norms be re-constructed through resistance of individuals in Hong Kong? A. Introduction What does it mean to be gay or lesbian or bisexual? Is it a matter of love? Sex? Desire? Identity? Biology? Politics? Or choice? The debates on gay law proposal in 2013 have provoked fierce responses from different domains of the society. The term “sexual minorities” has bombarded us with blur images about those people whose sexual identities or originations are deviant from the social norms. Resistance
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Gender discrimination is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of sex or gender identity. Socially‚ sexual differences have been used to justify societies in which one sex or the other has been restricted to significantly inferior and secondary roles. While there are non-physical differences between men and women (gender is learned not genetics)‚ unfair discrimination usually follows the gender stereotyping held by a society and is used to enforce the roles held by that society
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