On norms and agency Muñoz Boudet, Ana María; Muñoz Boudet, Ana María; Petesch, Patti ...
2013., 2013, 04-12-2013, 2013-04-12, 2013-04-22
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This report provides tremendous insight on gender norms an area that has been resistant to change, and that constrains achievement of gender equality across many diverse cultures. The report ...synthesizes data collected from more than 4,000 women and men in 97 communities across 20 countries. It is the largest dataset ever collected on the topic of gender and development, providing an unprecedented opportunity to examine potential patterns across communities on social norms and gender roles, pathways of empowerment, and factors that drive acute inequalities. The analysis raises the profile of persistent social norms and their impact on agency, and catalyzes discourse on the many pathways that create opportunities for women and men to negotiate transformative change. The report is underpinned by the fact that arguably the single most important contribution to development is to unleash the full power of half the people on the planet women. It underscores how crucial making investments in learning, supporting innovations that reduce the time costs of women s mobility, and developing a critical mass of women and men pushing the boundaries of entrenched social norms are in enhancing women s agency and capacity to aspire.
This article aggregates qualitative field research from sites in 17 developing countries to describe crisis impacts and analyse how people coped with the food, fuel, and financial crises during ...2008-2011. The research uncovered significant hardships behind the apparent resilience, with widespread reports of food insecurity, debt, asset loss, stress, and worsening crime and community cohesion. There were important gender and age differences in the distribution of impacts and coping responses, with women often acting as shock absorbers. The more common sources of assistance were family, friends, community-based and religious organisations with formal social protection and finance less important. The traditional informal safety nets of the poor became depleted as the crisis deepened, pointing to the need for better formal systems for coping with future shocks.
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BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
This article aggregates qualitative field research from sites in 17 developing countries to describe crisis impacts and analyse how people coped with the food, fuel, and financial crises during ...2008–2011. The research uncovered significant hardships behind the apparent resilience, with widespread reports of food insecurity, debt, asset loss, stress, and worsening crime and community cohesion. There were important gender and age differences in the distribution of impacts and coping responses, with women often acting as shock absorbers. The more common sources of assistance were family, friends, community-based and religious organisations with formal social protection and finance less important. The traditional informal safety nets of the poor became depleted as the crisis deepened, pointing to the need for better formal systems for coping with future shocks.
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BFBNIB, CEKLJ, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, ODKLJ, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
This study investigated (a) the extent to which the elements of Joyce Epstein's typology for School-Family-Community Involvement are practiced in middle grade programs in one Massachusetts urban ...school district, and (b) if there is a relationship between specific types of school-family-community partnership programs and practices and student achievement outcomes as reported by the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). The Epstein typology includes six broad categories. The categories are: Parenting, Volunteering, Communicating, Learning at Home, Decision-Making, and Collaboration with the Community. MCAS data were extracted from public domain files produced by the state D.O.E and annual reports produced by the district. Involvement data were collected from a Partnership Inventory designed by the researcher and administered to middle school faculty and administrators in the selected district. Seventy (70) respondents completed the inventory instrument. This represents 28.1% of the total sample. An analysis of the data revealed that although differences in employment of involvement programs and practices do exist between clusters of schools with similar achievement outcomes, common approaches also exist. Programs and practices identified as common to all school clusters are linked to four categories: Parenting, Learning at Home, Decision-Making, and Collaboration with the Community. It may be interpreted from the data that cross category approaches employed school-wide and by grade cluster have the most significant impact on positive academic outcomes.
This report provides tremendous insight on gender norms an area that has been resistant to change, and that constrains achievement of gender equality across many diverse cultures. The report ...synthesizes data collected from more than 4,000 women and men in 97 communities across 20 countries. It is the largest dataset ever collected on the topic of gender and development, providing an unprecedented opportunity to examine potential patterns across communities on social norms and gender roles, pathways of empowerment, and factors that drive acute inequalities. The analysis raises the profile of persistent social norms and their impact on agency, and catalyzes discourse on the many pathways that create opportunities for women and men to negotiate transformative change. The report is underpinned by the fact that arguably the single most important contribution to development is to unleash the full power of half the people on the planet women. It underscores how crucial making investments in learning, supporting innovations that reduce the time costs of women s mobility, and developing a critical mass of women and men pushing the boundaries of entrenched social norms are in enhancing women s agency and capacity to aspire.
