Gender, Sexuality and Society: Understanding Contemporary Challenges Interviewing Elisabeth Prügl (original) (raw)
Empowering Perspectives: Analyzing Gender Dynamics in International Politics
International Journal of Applied Research and Sustainable Sciences, 2023
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Atribusi 4.0 Internasional. This study explores the complex world of gender dynamics in global politics with the goal of empowering different viewpoints and promoting inclusive government. The introduction outlines the growing importance of gender issues in international relations and emphasizes the necessity for a thorough understanding of how they intersect with other social identities. The study's dual goals are to first investigate how gender affects political involvement and representation while taking into account how race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation interact with gender experiences. Second, to examine how gender-sensitive policies affect international efforts at development, peacekeeping, and conflict resolution. A mixed-methods strategy is used, including research using qualitative data. Findings highlight the complex ways in which gender influences international politics' power structures, decision-making procedures, and access to opportunities. The report also highlights the significance of comprehensive gender-sensitive policy and points out shortcomings in addressing intersecting identities. In order to establish a more inclusive and equitable international political scene, more research and action are required, as this study emphasizes the significance of advancing gender equity in global governance. to the sidelines of global governance and decision-making (True 2003). In recent years, however, people have become more aware of how important it is to study gender relations in order to understand power structures, inequality, and the bigger effects on international security and cooperation (Bolin et al. 1998). International politics, sometimes called international relations, examines worldwide exchanges and relationships. Diplomacy, conflict, collaboration, trade, security, and international policymaking are included (Okano 2011). Empowerment increases an individual's or group's ability to make decisions, govern their lives, and achieve goals. Providing resources, chances, and knowledge boosts self-confidence and autonomy (Staples 1990). Gender equality means equal rights, opportunity, and treatment. It fights gender-based discrimination and bias to give everyone equal access to resources, education, employment, and decision-making (Farrior 2009). Feminist theory is a group of ideas and points of view that look at the social, political, economic, and cultural systems that keep men and women from being treated equally and criticize them. It tries to understand women's lives, question standard gender roles, and fight for equal rights for men and women (Acker 1987; Khatun et al. 2023). The idea of intersectionality acknowledges how multiple social identities, including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and others, intersect and interact to produce distinctive and intricate experiences of advantage and discrimination. The term "intersectionality" stresses how different identities are intertwined and how they might affect a person's possibilities and way of life (Crenshaw 2021). The hierarchical arrangements and distribution of power, influence, and control within a society or an organization are referred to as power structures. These structures establish who has the authority to make decisions, who has access to resources, and who may guide policies and actions (Tran and Tian 2013). The methodical and unbiased evaluation of public policies to determine their objectives, efficacy, and prospective effects is known as policy analysis. It entails compiling and analysing data, assessing potential policy options, and presenting evidence-based recommendations to decisionmakers (Head 2010). Global governance is the process by which nations, international organizations, and other players collaborate and communicate to handle problems that cut across national boundaries and address global difficulties. It entails developing, putting into practice, and enforcing standards, laws, and regulations that have an effect on a variety of international relations issues, such as trade, security, human rights, and environmental protection (Krahmann 2003). Women's rights are the privileges and liberties that women ought to have in society. These rights include the ability to exercise autonomy over one's own body and life, the right to be free from harassment and assault, the ability to receive healthcare and education, and equality of opportunity (Hodgson 2002).
Young People and Politics in the UK, 2007
The terms 'Participation' and 'Gender' have become a part of development discourse and practice in the last two decades. Advocates of these concepts have claimed that they allow for representation of the most marginalised groups, such as women and the poor. However both approaches have also been accused of providing only lip service to the interests of those they claim to represent. Participation Participation can mean many different things. In this paper participation is used to refer to the use of participatory methodologies in development projects, programmes and in political processes. …and why has participation not been more gender aware? Many efforts at participation have overemphasised community cohesion and consensus at the cost of ignoring gender differences, and have failed to create space for dissenting voices to be heard. Gender 'Gender and Development' approaches shift from a focus on women to thinking about relations between women and men, and how masculinities and femininities have been constructed. …and why has it not been more participatory? Much gender and development practice has not been particularly participatory, instead it has imposed 'top-down' conceptions of gender such as treating men and women as if they comprised instantly identifiable groups by virtue of their sex alone. It has also assumed that 'gender relations' refers to that dimension of male/female relations that involve actual or potential heterosexual relations, and therefore ignores other kinds of gender relations and experiences. Gender and development practitioners have also often had ideas of desirable gender relations which conflict with views expressed by people during participatory initiatives and processes. This is a summary of the overview report written by Supriya Akerkar. Both the summary and the overview report form part of the Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Participation. The Pack also includes a copy of the BRIDGE bulletin in brief, and a collection of supporting resources.
The broader context : mainstreaming gender in public institutions of governance and democracy
2004
The theme of the workshop was democratic values, processes and institutions and my paper addresses gender mainstreaming, equal and effective participation of women and men in democratic processes, and the methods of ensuring genuine and effective partnership between them. The paper specifically addresses the following question: How can Government, Opposition and Parliament ensure that all their activities are characterised by gender sensitivity, full and equal participation of both women and men in the democratic process and (ensure) a genuine and effective partnership between them? Gender mainstreaming, equality, parity, equity and sensitivity are social justice concerns and for democracy and human rights to thrive it is essential that these concerns be effectively addressed. There cannot be democracy and genuine partnership between women and men if there is no equality and mutual respect founded on the above principles.
Promoting Inclusive Political Participation of Women
UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.
WOMEN, DEMOCRACY, AND GENDERED POLITICS
Gender studies get us to examine how to distinct men and women based on social views constructing them as they are not supposed to be, unlike if we see them as they are. It articulates some analogical perspectives towards individual and states within international system on level of analyses. Connell (2002) argued that "gender is the structure of social relations that centres on the reproductivearena, and the set of practices (governed by this structure) that bringreproductive distinctions between bodies into social processes. 2 This leads to senses that gender still moves on the track of reproductive domain attached to every single person but it does not ignore the practices of each as these could be out of the track (bodies).