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This paper describes the trajectories and formative experiences of different women of the Argentine upper class with the purpose of understanding the link between gender and social class. Based on a socio-anthropological approach, which includes in-depth interviews with women and men of this social group as well as participant observations, this paper explores the practices and representations that model and regulate the lives of women in this social group. It argues that the practices and meanings that upper-class women built show that gender representations are a field of dispute. In a historical context that has been characterized by the visibility of feminist demands, conservative discourses and practices supported by these women - in other words, the appropriation of a subordinate gender role - is part of their struggle to preserve a privileged position: that of the upper class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze how the protection of personality rights for women in Brazil occurred – and still occurs.The research problem aims to analyze whether it is possible to protect the personality rights of women in the country in a different way. For that, the methodology of a deductive approach is adopted, using a documental and bibliographic research. As a result, it was found that the construction of pre-established roles made the female gender become hierarchically inferior and, as a consequence, to have some personality rights addressed differently during history. At first, this differentiation occurred in a discriminatory way, in order to limit women and, currently, even though it is very shy, there is a search for a more protective specific protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the workplace, some conditions based on social stereotypes hinder a working woman from accessing the same professional development opportunities as a male; therefore, the purpose of this research paper was to create and validate the Glass Ceiling Scale. An instrumental empirical study was carried out with a non-probabilistic sample of 203 Mexican women who worked during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis yielded acceptable fit index values (NFI = .832, TLI = .900, CFI = .918, and RMSEA = .62) and with a reliability coefficient of α = .816. The scale was made up of 15 items in three factors: Overload, Glass Ceiling and Family-Work Balance, with the three-factor model being the ideal structure to measure the construct. Results show evidence that the scale has the due psychometric properties for use in the study population and thereby generate reliable diagnoses that lead to organizational strategies to make visible and eradicate this phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper presents a queer feminist analysis of gendered discourses in South Africa's (SA) (2020-2025) National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS). It builds on an extensive field of WPS scholarship by using the case study of SA's NAP to illustrate how policy can be used to harness critical gendered language and create possibilities for radical (re)imaginings of gendered peace. While a considerable knowledge base that explores the gendered discourses of NAPs on WPS already exists, a key gap in the literature --that has only more recently begun to be explored with greater rigor-- is the bridging of queer and feminist theories to further push the boundaries of discursive policy analysis. Against this backdrop, feminist critical discourse analysis (CDA) was applied to the NAP case study to surface dominant and counter-discourses on gender and their possible inclusionary/exclusionary effects. Key findings centre the potential value of policy discourses which, in their fragmentation, ruptures, continuities and ambivalences, can facilitate opportunities for queer peace at the instrumental level and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between gender inequalities (GI) and energy poverty (EP) has not been discussed as a whole in worldwide recent debates, although feminist analyses have demonstrated that GI have had an impact on the everyday life of women, men, and their dependents. This research paper addresses the relationship between GI and EP through an analysis of relevant secondary sources on poverty and people's use of time, in order to understand how GI affect women's access to energy in Latin America, particularly in Chile. Moreover, it seems that there are reasons to believe that EP has a female face. Therefore, this study looks into strategic policies for ensuring safe and affordable energy for women. Likewise, this research paper presents how these efforts would contribute to deal with some other key issues, such as energy transition and a sustainable development process. To sum up, this investigation identifies the possible benefits that improving energy access would bring to women, as well as how those improvements would consistently help to meet the goals established by international treaties that aim to seek equality for women through ending poverty and by giving them access to energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose to address the participation of women in the Peronist Resistance between 1955 and 1966 from a gender perspective. The statements given by male activists, tend to show women in a support role and in activities in which they performed traditional gender roles in order to avoid repression. Here, we try to offer a different framework. We consider women's forms of political intervention trying to overcome the anecdotal and romantic tinted lenses of those stories. In order to do this, we will analyze two types of documents. On one hand, interviews with activists about their resistance actions. On the other, ordinary justice's judicial files during the government of the Revolución Libertadora and military court files of the CONINTES Plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The academic research that includes any reference to Santa Fe's municipal female suffrage is scarce and nominal. In this paper, I propose to outline the routes of women's municipal suffrage in the province of Santa Fe. The central exercise is the visibility in order to answer basic, essential questions: what, who, when, where, how, for what, and why. As hypotheses, we propose that changing the scale from a gender perspective will allow us to see different aspects (Fernández "La historia" 19) and "write a more diverse, heterogeneous history, different from the Argentine nation" (Palermo "La historia" 32), which relativizes the predominant "national fact", including female suffrage's histories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the time of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325, this paper conducts a critical analysis of the track record of the international Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. The text retraces the history of the WPS agenda by examining its key features, strengths, gaps and weaknesses. What are the main criticisms made of the series of measures on the WPS agenda and their implementation? Answering this question enables us to glimpse the agenda's major weaknesses, as well as the key challenges for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender and women's studies have become more visible in recent years. A tangible advance not only in academic terms, but also at a social and educational level. Although these issues have gained notoriety in our country, we note that this does not affect the same intensity in the educational field. At secondary level, these issues enter preferably from the hand of the Comprehensive Sexual Education Law (Law No. 26,150) although this does not happen systematically. We ask ourselves then about the History that is taught not only in high school, but also at University. Within this framework, we promptly inquire into the entry of these issues within the History Teachers Program at the National University of La Plata. In sum, this is a paper that tries to question which historical subjects regain voice in the teaching of university History and at the same time it presents the curriculum as a cultural, historical and gendered device. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The introduction of the "Women, Peace and Security" (WPS) agenda in the United Nations (UN) system, brought to light the need to have the full, total and equal participation of women in all stages of the peace process, including in mediation processes. The purpose of this paper is to analyze this relationship between the WPS agenda and international mediation, especially after the adoption of Resolution 1325, its advances and challenges. Therefore, the methodological procedure of bibliographic review and analysis of documentary and statistical information will be used, based on the UN Security Council Resolutions on the WPS agenda, UN official documents, theses and dissertations on women and the UN, information data from Igarapé Institute, Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM), Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). From this analysis, it can be seen that although the WPS agenda has advanced in its commitments, it still faces difficulties in promoting the participation of women as international mediators, including in countries where there is a greater gender equality. Not only that, women's participation in mediation is often conditioned by the context in which it is inserted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last decade, in which bertsolaritza has become one of the most significant cultural manifestations in the Basque Country, women bertsolaris have themselves become a model of empowerment. Official records of bertsolaritza date back to the 15th century and women bertsolaris have been singing since that era. However, up until the 20th century they were systematically consigned to oblivion. This paper aims to explore the image that has been created of women over the centuries. Before, women were the object of bertsos (verses) sung by men, but now these are sung by both men and women. There are currently 200 women bertsolaris and 25 of them have been selected to form discussion groups focusing on the image portrayed of women in bertsolaritza. These 25 viewpoints represent the elite of those women currently working in the field of bertsolaritza. Their accounts were collected, transcribed and crossreferenced by nine researchers. Subsequently, they were classified and interpreted using the Nvivo 11 analysis system. The main conclusion is that it was women bertsolaris who paved the way into changing the image of women from being passive objects to active subjects. Women have gone from being an abstract, foreign and completely stereotypical theme of a masculine discourse to becoming a visible, flesh-and-blood, multi-faceted entity with these female bertsolaris. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the capacity of the media to incorporate controversies in circulation in the public sphere. For that, it is based on the analysis of a set of 607 news stories about violence against women in context of gender relations and proximity, collected in nine Brazilian media during the years of 2013 and 2014. Recognized as one of the countries with the highest rates of violence against women, in recent decades Brazil has passed laws aimed at protecting victims and aggravating the convictions of perpetrators, which were the result of intense debates promoted by feminists, researchers and others social actors involved in the guarantee of human rights. The collected news stories were published in the years immediately prior to the promulgation of the Feminicide Law, in 2015. Analyzed through a combination of methodologies, such as content analysis and narrative analysis, the collected news stories show that Brazilian news media are still little permeable to illuminating tendencies of violence against women as a result of gender relations, prevailing approaches that present them as routine and/or futile crimes. Therefore, the analysis makes it possible to perceive that the media are some steps behind the actions and debates that elevate this issue to a dimension of controversy, as those held in academic spaces, by feminist movements and other social actors in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the relationships between projects for women in the federal program Territórios da Cidadania (TC) and changes that occurred in the participation of women candidates and elected to the position of city councilor in the 2008 and 2012 elections in these regions. The paper focuses the analysis on application records, electoral results and electoral financing networks. The sources of data and information were collected on the Ministério de Desenvolvimento Agrário website, which was then responsible for the program Territórios da Cidadania, and on the website of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE). Supplementary data on municipalities were also obtained from the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). The data were organized in the form of a database and prepared for the generation of files of networks that were submitted to Gephi social network analysis software. The results show a considerable increase in women's political-electoral participation in TC above the national average as candidates and a timid increase in the number of women occupying council seats in the municipalities studied. To analyze these changes are used the positioning of the candidates in the financing networks and the changes in the profile of these women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article analyzes experiences of women in Self-managed work projects in the province of La Pampa. Several papers address the legal and administrative problematic issues that groups of workers face at the time of self managing their work projects. However, little has been said about the additional obstacles faced by women who try to formalize their entrepeneurship, which include gender inequality issues. Our work intends to be a gender-minded contribution, attending the intersection between work and social issues like class, gender and geographical region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil has a low participation of women in elective positions, little more than a tenth. This is a critical condition for a representative democracy. Among the structural determinants of this phenomenon is electoral financing. This paper investigates the participation of women in the financing networks of the 2014 elections in Brazil. The results show that the relations between the political agents produce an asymmetric and selective destination of those financial resources, constituting a structural dynamics of exclusion and marginalization of the women in the arenas of the power in Brazil. Based on data from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), we organized a relational database and used the methodology of social network analysis and multivariate statistical treatments to explore the 220,325 relationships recorded among 185,255 funders, party agents and candidates in the 2014 elections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender violence is one of the most extreme consequences of inequality between men and women in society. In this sense, movies, as a means of mass communication, are able to pass on certain discourses that can stimulate certain ideas about masculinity and femininity. In order to approach in the classroom the mechanisms perpetuating this hierarchy and justifying violence, this article proposes the analysis of the film Furrows (Nieves Conde, 1951). By the study of female characters and their relationship with the historic, political and social context of Franco's dictatorship, this paper promotes the incorporation of strategies allowing students to identify the discourses supporting those aggressions. In this movie, violence against women acts as a reproof and deterrent for behavior that flouts the traditional gender roles fomented by the State and the Church. The movie becomes an ideal pedagogical tool for the study of the responsibility of moviemaking in the transmission of values and beliefs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feminist frameworks have focused on gender inequality as the fundamental explanatory factor of male violence against women in union. This paper extends the analysis to contributions produced through social research. The approaches studied consider the personal characteristics of victims and aggressors (individual focus), the male-female power relationship within the couple (dyadic focus), and structural and symbolic factors (macro-social focus). An exploration of the respective contributions of these different perspectives shows that they offer only partial, inadequate approaches, given the multidimensional complexity of the problem. The main conclusions recognize that it is necessary to develop multi-level and inter-relational analytical frameworks such as the intersectional paradigm, in order to achieve a better understanding of the connection between gender inequality and male violence against women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to establish the relationship between gender and quality of working life assesment in health professionals in Guadalajara, Mexico. 322 people were sampled in a health institution. The satisfaction related to their quality of working life, was assessed through CVT-GOHISALO instrument. As a result, women dissatisfaction was revealed with opportunities inequality. In addition, sampled women showed through statiscal significance to be more satisfied than men, talking about personal development achieved through work and free time management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]