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Minority Women and Western Media presents global research examining representations of minority women in different media contexts and shows that discrimination is about gender as well as other intersecting characteristics. Authors illustrate how stereotypes are challenged and new discourses emerge around the world giving voice to minority women.

Das Schwerpunktheft enthält die Beiträge: ++ Görs: "Die Berufsbildungsreform ist doch nur ideologisch motiviert!" - Historische und aktuelle Aspekte einer bildungs politischen Kontroverse ++ Brandes/Rosemann: Die Berufsbildungsbilanz - konzeptioneller Hintergrund und Darstellung der Ausbildungsplatzsituation ++ Westhoff: Die Bedeutung der Berufsfachschulen beim Übergang der Jugendlichen zwischen allgemeinbildender Schule und Beruf ++ Wiethold: Sinn und Unsinn von Berufsvorbereitungsmaßnahmen ++ Frackmann/Kuhls: Modellversuche - Ersatz für Berufsbildungs politik? ++ Kruse/Kühnlein/Müller/Schulte: Facharbeitereinsatz als Er fahrungsbereich der betrieblichen Berufsausbildung ++ Müller/Ehrke: Verkäuferin sein - Was bedeutet das? - Zum be ruflichen Selbstverständnis - zur Berufsrealität und zur Be rufsausbildung von Verkäuferinnen

Eine Femmage zum 70. Geburtstag von Luise F. Pusch am 14. Januar 2014. Von "Die Menstruation ist bei jedem etwas anders" bis zur Einführung des generischen Femininums an der Universität Leipzig im vergangenen Sommer - Luise F. Pusch begleitet seit über 30 Jahren mit ihren kritischen Beiträgen die Diskussion feministischer Positionen. Mit Witz, Ironie und dem Handwerk der professionellen Linguistin entlarvt sie Woche für Woche in ihren Glossen alltägliche Sexismen. Neben der sprachwissenschaftlichen Grundlagenarbeit hat sie eine Datenbank mit mehr als 30.000 Biographien von Frauen aufgebaut, mehr als 8.000 davon auch online. Ihr 1981 (zunächst pseudonym) erschienener autobiographischer Roman "Sonja" zeigte schonungslos die Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen von Lesben in den 1970ern auf. Aus Anlass ihres 70. Geburtstags würdigen 40 Freundinnen, Kolleginnen und Weggefährtinnen (teils in gemeinschaftlich verfassten Beiträgen) die Lebensleistung von Luise F. Pusch. verlagsinfo

On March 3rd, 2016, over fifty water specialists from local government, industry, and academia from across B.C. met at the University of British Columbia for the one-day workshop Local Drought Preparedness in B.C. The goal of the workshop was twofold: ›› To allow local governments and water specialists to share lessons following the 2015 drought. ›› To identify opportunities for collaboration in building drought preparedness. ; Applied Science, Faculty of ; Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of ; Land and Food Systems, Faculty of ; Science, Faculty of ; Other UBC ; Non UBC ; Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for ; Unreviewed ; Faculty

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Theorizing Mutant Neoliberalism -- 1. Neoliberalism's Scorpion Tail -- 2. The Market's People: Milton Friedman and the Making of Neoliberal Populism -- 3. Neoliberals against Europe -- 4. Anti-Austerity on the Far Right -- 5. Disposing of the Discredited: A European Project -- 6. Neoliberalism, Rationality, and the Savage Slot -- 7. Sexing Homo Œconomicus: Finding Masculinity at Work -- 8. Feminist Theory Redux: Neoliberalism's Public-Private Divide -- 9. "Innovation" Discourse and the Neoliberal University: Top Ten Reasons to Abolish Disruptive Innovation -- 10. Absolute Capitalism -- List of Contributors -- Index

Health financing strategies that incorporate financial incentives are being applied in many low- and middle-income countries, and improving maternal and neonatal health is often a central goal. As yet, there have been few reviews of such programmes and their impact on maternal health. The US Government Evidence Summit on Enhancing Provision and use of Maternal Health Services through Financial Incentives was convened on 24–25 April 2012 to address this gap. This article, the final in a series assessing the effects of financial incentives—performance-based incentives (PBIs), insurance, user fee exemption programmes, conditional cash transfers, and vouchers—summarizes the evidence and discusses issues of context, programme design and implementation, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability. We suggest key areas to consider when designing and implementing financial incentive programmes for enhancing maternal health and highlight gaps in evidence that could benefit from additional research. Although the methodological rigor of studies varies, the evidence, overall, suggests that financial incentives can enhance demand for and improve the supply of maternal health services. Definitive evidence demonstrating a link between incentives and improved health outcomes is lacking; however, the evidence suggests that financial incentives can increase the quantity and quality of maternal health services and address health systems and financial barriers that prevent women from accessing and providers from delivering quality, lifesaving maternal healthcare.

International audience ; Overall, tumors of primary central nervous system (CNS) are quite common in adults with an incidence rate close to 30 new cases/100,000 inhabitants per year. Significant clinical and biological advances have been accomplished in the most common adult primary CNS tumors (i.e., diffuse gliomas). However, most CNS tumor subtypes are rare with an incidence rate below the threshold defining rare disease of 6.0 new cases/100,000 inhabitants per year. Close to 150 entities of primary CNS tumors have now been identified by the novel integrated histomolecular classification published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its updates by the c-IMPACT NOW consortium (the Consortium to Inform Molecular and Practical Approaches to CNS Tumor Taxonomy). While these entities can be better classified into smaller groups either by their histomolecular features and/or by their location, assessing their treatment by clinical trials and improving the survival of patients remain challenging. Despite these tumors are rare, research, and advances remain slower compared to diffuse gliomas for instance. In some cases (i.e., ependymoma, medulloblastoma) the understanding is high because single or few driver mutations have been defined. The European Union has launched European Reference Networks (ERNs) dedicated to support advances on the clinical side of rare diseases including rare cancers. The ERN for rare solid adult tumors is termed EURACAN. Within EURACAN, Domain 10 brings together the European patient advocacy groups (ePAGs) and physicians dedicated to improving outcomes in rare primary CNS tumors and also aims at supporting research, care and teaching in the field. In this review, we discuss the relevant biological and clinical characteristics, clinical management of patients, and research directions for the following types of rare primary CNS tumors: medulloblastoma, pineal region tumors, glioneuronal and rare glial tumors, ependymal tumors, grade III meningioma and mesenchymal tumors, primary central ...