Essays about: "gender complementarity"

Found 5 essays containing the words gender complementarity.

  1. 1. Gender-based Motivations for Usage and Avoidance of Shared Micro-mobility during Night-time in Stockholm, Sweden

    University essay from KTH/Transportplanering

    Author : HENRY YITZHAK ACOSTA-CARRASCAL; [2023]
    Keywords : shared micro-mobility; e-scooters; e-bikes; gender equity; nighttime commuting;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the intersection of shared micro-mobility services and genderwith a focus on the nighttime in Stockholm, Sweden. Research has found agender gap in user characteristics, with safety, affordability, and vehicle qualityaffection adoption. READ MORE

  2. 2. What About the People, Though?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Jan Matzek; [2020]
    Keywords : income; inequality; human; development; capabilities; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : In a developmental context, income inequality has so far been investigated primarily from the angle of its relationship with economic growth. This paper contributes to the limited but growing body of empirical literature examining the interplay between income inequality and human development, here perceived through the capabilities approach. READ MORE

  3. 3. Who Gets Selected? : A quantitative analysis exploring the effect of ideology and electoral vulnerability on the ballot placement of ethnic minority women candidates

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hannah Gisgård; [2018]
    Keywords : representation; quotas; gender equality; intersectionality; ethnic minority women; electoral ballots; electoral vulnerability; complementarity advantage;

    Abstract : This quantitative study aims to investigate the mechanisms for ballot placement of underrepresented groups by examining how ideology and electoral vulnerability affect the ballot placement of ethnic minority women candidates in the case of the election to the Swedish Riksdag in 2018. Four hypotheses for the relationship are set: that the Red-Greenswillputethnicminoritywomencandidates higherupontheirballots;that the Alliance will put ethnic minority women candidates higher up on their ballots; that electoral vulnerability will have a stronger effect on the Red-Greens’ ballot placement of ethnic minority women candidates; that electoral vulnerability will have the same or no effect on the Red-Greens’ and the Alliance’s ballot placement of ethnic minority women candidates. READ MORE

  4. 4. “Half women, half men” - A field study on gender complementarity and its impact on female participation in community politics in rural Bolivia.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Cecilia Emilsson; [2016]
    Keywords : community politics.; machismo; decolonisation; Evo Morales; Mujeres Creando; Bartolina Sisa; postcolonial feminism; peasant unions; indigenous groups; gender complementarity; Bolivia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Gender complementarity is an indigenous model of gender relations that values the female position and her tasks by tradition the same way as that of the man. The idea is that the man and woman complement each other as opposite parts of the cosmos. In Bolivia, with 65% of its population and the president being indigenous, the concept is widely used. READ MORE

  5. 5. Guardians of Life: Making Sense of Gender Equality and Women´s Activism Within Ecuador´s Indigenous Movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Shabnam Sharifpour; [2016]
    Keywords : Indigenous feminism; CONAIE; Indigenous movement; Ecuador; Gender equality; Women´s activism; Dual complementarity; Buen vivir; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Much attention has been paid to Indigenous gender ideologies and Indigenous women´s political participation in Latin America. The construction of gender equality and its implications for Indigenous women’s activism in Ecuador´s Indigenous movement is, however, widely undiscovered terrain. READ MORE