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Cover -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Gender Budgeting Can Improve Budgeting -- III. Examples of Prominent Gender Budgeting Efforts -- IV. Assessment and Fiscal Policy Implications -- References -- Table -- 1. Summary Statistics on the 23 Prominent Gender Budgeting Efforts -- Figures -- 1. Gender Budgeting Countries Identified in the Regional Surveys -- 2. Stages of the Budget Process -- Appendices -- A. Methodological Approach to the Regional Surveys and Summary Statistics -- Table A1. Countries Responding to the IMF Questionnaire on Gender Budgeting

Gender identity is not something that can be assessed based on a person's anatomy, but rather an internal sense of self. Societal norms are often an overwhelming burden for those who are attacked or pressured into fitting others' expectations of who they "should" be rather than who they truly are. This insightful volume introduces readers to gender concepts and inspiring and impassioned accounts from LGBTQ+ activists. Through these pages readers will discover why having the freedom of true gender expression is so important.

The term performance - a temporary and active presentation, expression, or act - has a presence in all cultural media and genres, and has repercussions for taking on, experiencing, and enacting an identity as well. Performance reaches beyond theatre, ballet and music to any human behaviour that is constantly performed through personal acts that contradict stereotypes - not just with regard to gender, but equally so with regard to class and ethnicity or race. The theme Gender and Performance focuses upon the performative strength of gender through various media: feminist and political theatre, an online 'private' novel turned radio play, protest movements, internet beauty blogs, dressing and fashion and the performativity of the word slut. Gender and performativity will take the reader to the Netherlands, Austria, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines

This article is based on data collected during a qualitative survey on children's leisure practices and family socialisation patterns. The paper focuses more specifically on the cross effects of gender and social class on the construction of body hexis and relationship to sports. The results show that several dimensions of family habitus must be taken into account: lifestyles, way in which parents divide the tasks of raising children and relationship they have with social competition or gender norms. Moreover, taking these different dimensions into account must be accompanied by an analysis of the concrete modes of socialization within the family and the practice context.

This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in the gender statistics. The book presents gender-disaggregated data for more than 200 countries in an easy country-by-country reference on demography, education, health, labor force, political participation and the Millennium Development Goals. The book's summary pages cover regional and income group aggregates

Since gender disparities do not appear to be confined within the political system, I assume a gender perspective within social movements. In order to better understand the relations between the social movements and gender issues, I analysed the case of the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and Aid to Citizens (Attac) in Italy. Attac is an international network of sibling organizations. The Italian branch has been described as a political/cultural association which is based on previous cultural/political backgrounds of militants. Accordingly, I supposed that these cultural/political backgrounds have affected the present organization and its forms of participation. Structural information on participation in parties and trade unions proves that Attac has a strong linkage to the Italian left-wing, while the relations between gender, participation and power have been investigated in the fieldwork. Yet, certain dynamics of inequity and the risk of reproducing models learned elsewhere, which also replicate gender exclusion in those associations which lie halfway between civil society and political parties, have been discussed for gender and participation in the contradictory age of globalization.

The objective of a country's government is to increase the well-being of its population. For this reason, a precise measure of inequality and poverty contributes to better development of economic and public policies to reduce the former and latter, respectively. Therefore, in recent years, various indexes have been developed to measure and compare inequality and poverty. In the case of Mexico, the Gini and Theil indexes are used to measure both problems. However, they are criticized for the overvaluation that they generate on specific population segments. For a better measurement, this paper calculates and investigates the relationship between the Palma index (inequality) and the Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke index (poverty). In addition to reducing the overvaluation problem, the indexes mentioned allow us to perform an analysis by gender and employment type (salaried and self-employed). The main results do not diverge from those already found through traditional measures. In general, a high level of inequality exists. However, our paper contributes to the literature by identifying both problems by gender. Men present greater inequality than women, whereas women present greater poverty than men. Finally, a positive, albeit weak, correlation exists between both problems, which means that poverty can be combated by combating inequality.

Cover -- Introduction -- 1. US Women Trail the World in Political Equality -- 2. The Gender Pay Gap Remains Consistent Over the Last Decade -- 3. The Gender Pay Gap Is Not Due to Discrimination -- 4. A Universal Basic Income Would Provide Opportunities for Parents -- 5. Sexism Prevents Gender Equality in the Music Industry -- 6. Women's Voices Are Silenced in the Tech Industry -- 7. Ethnic Minority Women Are Excluded in the Workplace -- 8. Women in Power Are Constrained by Clothing Choices -- 9. Educating Girls and Women Has Huge Payoffs -- 10. Girls Are Outperforming Boys in School -- 11. Female Infanticide Is Leading to a World of "Missing Women" -- 12. Women Are Using Social Media to Combat Violence Against Women in Elections -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index

Die feministische Dekonstruktion der Kategorie "Geschlecht" wird mittlerweile in einem zweiten Schritt der (Selbst-)Kritik daraufhin diskutiert, welche "naturalisierenden Restbestimmungen" weiblicher und männlicher Geschlechtszugehörigkeit noch immer vorausgesetzt werden. Nachdem die Unterscheidung von "sex" und "gender" als biologistisch und ahistorisch kritisiert worden ist, bewegt sich die Diskussion vorwiegend im Feld der kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung von Geschlecht und damit im Bereich von "gender". Hieran anschließend untersucht die Autorin, wie das Problem der "biologischen Fundierung" entsteht, dem feministische Ansätze oft unwissentlich aufsitzen. Zentral ist hierfür ihre Kritik an der naturalistisch mißverstandenen Verknüpfung von "natürlichem" Körper und sozialem Geschlecht: der Körper dient in diesen Ansätzen als der "stumme Diener und Träger" geschlechtlichr Identität. (pmb)