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"Power to Asia's Women" by Vishakha N. Desai and Astrid S. Tuminez | Project Syndicate - 0 views

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Gender Equality Asia Feminism

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  • Data for indicators of women’s leadership in Asia, though limited, show that the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand are consistently among the top performers. With the addition of economic and occupational parameters – such as women in senior management positions, promotion rates, remuneration, and wage equality – these countries are joined by Singapore, Mongolia, Thailand, and Malaysia.
  • Some of the Asian economies with the highest human development rankings, such as Japan and South Korea, are among the worst in terms of women in senior management, wage equality, remuneration, and political empowerment. Singapore and Hong Kong, too, display significant gender gaps in leadership, despite high human development.
  • Weiye Loh on 19 May 12
     
    few women in Asia make it to the top. Social norms undervalue girls and women, with sex-selection abortions resulting in an estimated 1.3 million girls per year not being born in China and India alone.
    CommentsStill, women have benefited from Asia's economic development. According to the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2011, rising prosperity has narrowed gender inequality in many countries. Women are making progress in health, education, economic opportunity, and political empowerment, which they can leverage for future leadership.
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Hen: Sweden's new gender neutral pronoun causes controversy. - Slate Magazine - 0 views

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Gender Gender Stereotype Gender Equality Feminism Sweden Language Gender Neutrality

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  • Ironically, in the effort to free Swedish children from so-called normative behavior, gender-neutral proponents are also subjecting them to a whole set of new rules and new norms as certain forms of play become taboo, language becomes regulated, and children's interactions and attitudes are closely observed by teachers. One Swedish school got rid of its toy cars because boys "gender-coded" them and ascribed the cars higher status than other toys. Another preschool removed "free playtime" from its schedule because, as a pedagogue at the school put it, when children play freely "stereotypical gender patterns are born and cemented. In free play there is hierarchy, exclusion, and the seed to bullying." And so every detail of children's interactions gets micromanaged by concerned adults, who end up problematizing minute aspects of children's lives, from how they form friendships to what games they play and what songs they sing.
  • Weiye Loh on 28 Apr 12
     
    . In a recent interview for Vice magazine, Jan Guillou, one of Sweden's most well-known authors, referred to proponents of hen as "feminist activists who want to destroy our language." Other critics believe it can be psychologically and socially damaging, especially for children. Elise Claeson, a columnist and a former equality expert at the Swedish Confederation of Professions, has said that young children can become confused by the suggestion that there is a third, "in-between" gender at a time when their brains and bodies are developing. Adults should not interrupt children's discovery of their gender and sexuality, argues Claeson. She told the Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter, that "gender ideologues" have managed to change the curriculum to establish that schools should actively counter gender roles.
Weiye Loh

Networking and pay: Contact sports | The Economist - 0 views

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Network Gender Equality Work Income Divide

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  • , there is only a marginal pay difference between men and women when it comes to non-executive directors, and no difference in the effectiveness of their networks. It is possible that this reflects pressure for “gender quotas” on corporate boards. Women are able to find their way onto shortlists for lower-paid, non-executive positions. But that’s not where the real power lies.
  • Weiye Loh on 22 Apr 12
     
    Among executive-board members, women earn 17% less than their male counterparts. There are plenty of plausible explanations for this disparity, from interruptions to women's careers to old-fashioned discrimination. But the authors find that this pay gap can be fully explained by the effect of executives' networks. Men can leverage a large network into more senior positions or a seat on a more lucrative board; women don't seem to be able to.
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Barbara Kay: Women are not always the 'gentler sex' | Full Comment | National Post - 0 views

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Rape Gender Stereotype Feminism Gender Equality

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  • McGill professor of Social Work Myriam Denov, who did her Phd thesis on female sex offenders, notes, as recently as 1984, a study proclaimed that “pedophilia does not exist at all in women.”
  • According to a 2004 U.S. Department of Education mass study of university students, 57% of students reporting child sexual abuse cited a male offender, and 42% reported a female offender. Interestingly, 65% of the survivors of female abuse who opened up to a therapist, doctor or other professional were not believed on their first disclosure. Overall, 86% of those who tried to tell anyone at all about their experience were not believed.
  • According to a 1996 report from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN), about 25% of child sexual abuse is committed by women, but that figure may be low, because survivors are far more conflicted and shamed in admitting abuse by their mothers than by fathers.
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  • In one study of 17,337 survivors of childhood sexual abuse, 23% reported a female-only perpetrator and 22% reported both male and female. A U.S. Department of Justice report finds that, in 2008, 95% of all youths reporting sexual misconduct by staff member in state juvenile facilities said their victimization experiences included victimization by female personnel, who made up 42% of the staff.
  • Dr. Paul Federoff, a forensic psychiatrist and Co-Director of the Sexual Behaviors Clinic at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, says that “there are a lot of women who do sexually abuse children, but they get away with it.” Daycare centres, schools and homes make propitious terrain for predators. One study found 8% of female perpetrators were teachers and 23% were babysitters.
  • There are three types of female sex offenders: those who are predisposed to it and will abuse very young children, exactly like men; those who are “male-accompanied,” like Karla Homolka (alive and well, and the mother of three children in Montreal); and the “teacher-lover” type, like the infamous Mary Kay Letourneau, who seduced and, after a stint in prison, married her former student.

  • Victorian chivalry and 21st century feminism would seem to make strange bedfellows, but in their equally unrealistic characterization of women as the always “gentler sex,” they condemn both male and female victims of female-perpetrated abuse to silence and second-class social status.

    To err is human. Are women fully human? Then stop treating them like saints or permanent moral infants.

  • While the first two types are universally detested, the third type is problematic, because it is often assumed, even by law enforcement, that older women cannot coerce sex, or that teenage boys are flattered and empowered by an older woman’s sexual mentorship. Boys do act out their confusion and anxiety differently than girls do, but that doesn’t mean many of them aren’t damaged by the relationships, or that the law should be applied to women abusers with any less rigour.
  • Weiye Loh on 11 Apr 12
     
    Most rapists were subjected to some form of sexual abuse in childhood. A startling amount is perpetrated by females. Peer-reviewed studies conclude that between 60-80% of "rapists, sex offenders and sexually aggressive men" were sexually abused by a female.
Weiye Loh

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Gender Equality

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  • Ms Rahfhat's husband, Ezatullah Rafhat, thinks having a son is a symbol of prestige and honour.

    "Whoever came [to our house] would say: 'Oh, we're sorry for you not having a son.' So we thought it would be a good idea to disguise our daughter, as she wanted this too."

  • The tradition has existed in Afghanistan for centuries. According to Daud Rawish, a sociologist in Kabul, it may have started when Afghans had to fight their invaders and for this women needed to be disguised as men.

    But Qazi Sayed Mohammad Sami, head of the Balkh Human Rights Commission, calls it a breach of human rights.

    "We cannot change someone's gender for a while. You cannot change a girl to a boy for a short period of time. It's against humanity," he says.

    The tradition has had a damaging effect on some girls who feel they have missed out on essential childhood memories as well as losing their identity.

    For others it has been good experiencing freedoms they would never have had if they had lived as girls.

    But for many the key question is: will there be a day when Afghan girls get as much freedom and respect as boys?

  • Weiye Loh on 08 Apr 12
     
    For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh - disguising girls as boys.
Weiye Loh

Gender 'not a big issue', Workplace Success, Singapore Jobs, Job Resources - STJobs - 0 views

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Gender Equality Glass Ceiling Power

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  • Ms Tan Gek Khim, senior director at the Management Development Institute of Singapore, said glass ceilings, if they exist at all, should have been shattered long ago.

    'Women should not stifle themselves by harbouring negative perceptions. They should not let the proverbial 'glass ceiling' hamper them in their aspirations for higher positions,' she says.

    'Such perceived constraints serve only to perpetuate the weaknesses of women.'

    Ms Monica Sun, president of Henkel Singapore and Malaysia and its vice-president for the adhesive technologies unit in South-east Asia, adds: 'I believe the glass ceiling can be only oneself.

    'If a woman has an aspiration, and if she is determined and if she works hard, then the ceiling is where she sets it for herself.'

  • Companies do not have separate requirements for female and male leaders, though men need to fight the natural tendency to hire another male in a senior position as that provides a level of comfort and familiarity, says Ms Kerry Condon, recruitment firm AMS' head of client services for Asia Pacific.

    'Having women in leadership roles signals that this is an organisation... that is looking to cultivate a culture of collaboration.'

    Ultimately, it is the leader's capabilities that matter, regardless of gender.

  • Weiye Loh on 08 Apr 12
     
    GENDER diversity has become the latest catchphrase in corporate circles with much lamenting about the lack of women numbers.

    For some women in power, gender and the glass ceiling are not always big issues in their business life.

    'Don't make every issue out to be about gender,' says Ms Teo Lay Lim, Accenture's country managing director for Singapore and managing director for Asean.

    Being a female leader in a male-dominated world, for instance, is not a gender issue to her.

    'Seniority in any job is tough as the scope and complexity of your role will change, your span of control is broader and there will be more moving parts in your day-to-day position.'

    Women who moan about the glass ceiling might be better off taking charge and defining their own destinies.
Weiye Loh

Why Feminism Is Wrong About Patriarchy by Typhon Blue « Quiet Riot Girl - 0 views

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Individualism Gender Stereotype Gender Equality

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  • concept called ‘apexuality’. She says that ‘apexuals’, who I think she conceptualises as ‘male-bodied’, are people who achieve power in hierarchies. And, contrary to feminism’s patriarchy 1.0 theory she says these apexuals do not achieve power based on their commonalities with other men, but rather by distinguishing themselves from them. The search for ‘uniqueness’ is a key part of the search for power. And ‘apexuals’ have to sacrifice their ‘maleness’ as an identity in order to achieve high status roles.

    So feminists ideas about men working together as a kind of ‘team’ are rejected by typhon’s analysis.

    I agree with her, if I have understood her correctly. I think we live in very ‘individualistic’ times.

  • I think some women gain power by invoking their ‘femininity’. I think Margaret Thatcher did, and Princess Diana, and say, Dolly Parton. I’m sure they trod on a few female toes to get where they did, too.
Weiye Loh

Missing From Asia's Boardrooms: Women - Southeast Asia Real Time - WSJ - 0 views

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Gender Equality Feminism Diversity

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  • “It is not just about the quotas, but the diversity within those quotas — it isn’t just about having three women, but women from different backgrounds who can contribute different things,” said Ms. Crewes, whose organization, P&G, employs a chief diversity officer to ensure a better distribution of different nationalities, races and gender within the company.
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Photos of Attractive Female Job Seekers Stir Up HR Jealousy - Bradley J. Ruffle - Harva... - 0 views

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Discrimination Looks Gender Stereotype Gender Equality Human Resources

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  • Weiye Loh on 24 Mar 12
     
    In companies that advertised job openings, good-looking females (as judged by a panel we assembled) received 6% fewer callbacks than plain-looking females and 23% fewer than women without pictures. The beauty "penalty" was much smaller and less significant when it came to employment agencies, perhaps because the women screening CVs wouldn't have had to work side-by-side with the candidates.

    In both the hiring companies and the agencies, screeners reacted favorably to pictures of attractive-looking men, giving these candidates significantly more callbacks than plain-looking men and males who didn't attach photos. This male beauty premium did not come as a surprise in light of the large body of psychological research showing that attractive people are generally viewed positively along numerous dimensions. They're believed to be happier, healthier, more intelligent, luckier in marriage, and so on. Thus the responses to the CV photos of attractive women really stand out and tell us a lot about the screeners' biases.
Weiye Loh

In The Company Of Men - Anna Arrowsmith's Myths About Porn « Guardian Watch - 0 views

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Pornography Gender Stereotype Gender Equality Heterosexuality Heteronormativity

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  • The fact porn films sometimes require performances from men that can perceived to be misogynistic does not necessarily mean that the films, or the actors, are misogynistic themselves. In fact, most of the individuals involved are usually aware that they are putting on a performance that must be understood within friendly parentheses.’
  • even leaving aside for one moment the huge markets that include M/m porn, F/m ‘dominatrix’ porn and mixed-sex ‘gang bangs’ (which you cannot categorise as ‘gay’ or ‘straight’), heterosexual porn is often ALL ABOUT THE MEN. And, even taking it on its own, with men in dominant positions, the male stars are still the objects of the camera’s gaze. And other men look at them!
  • guys watch­ing porn today expect to see male per­form­ers who reflect their own met­ro­sex­ual pre­oc­cu­pa­tions. More than that, I think many young men expect that male porn actor’s bod­ies should give them visual plea­sure. (Deen com­plains that he gets hate mail from men – who fre­quently tell him he ‘needs to work out’.)
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  • all male porn actors are ‘objects of desire’ and not just objects of desire, but objects of MEN’s desire.
Weiye Loh

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Labour Economics Education Home-maker Gender Equality

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  • Weiye Loh on 18 Mar 12
     
    Just because it can't be tabulated in financial terms does not negate our value at home. Being a SAHM is not for those who can't make it in the "real" world. I will tell you that it takes grit, determination and lots of dying to self to make it as a fulltime SAHM. And who says you don't need to be an educated mom to handle the demands of SAHM-dom?

    The working world is alluring and glamourous and usually financially rewarding. More power to those who are able to juggle work and motherhood and enjoy both. But for the rest of us who are unable or choose not to, think of this season at home as that - a season. When our children are no longer so dependent on us, we can venture out to the workplace once again. Sure, some of us can return to the workforce earlier than others and our season at home varies. But we are most certainly not wasting the country's or our parent's money and recourses by being educated to the best of our abilities and then choosing to stay home for our family's well being.
Weiye Loh

Dynasties in democracies: The political side of inequality | vox - Research-based polic... - 0 views

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Inequality Income Politics Nepotism Gender Equality

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  • Weiye Loh on 14 Mar 12
     

    Inequality in the world's poorest countries is considered one of the main barriers to development. But this column points out that the inequality is about much more than the über-rich and the destitute - it is about access to political power. This column looks at political dynasties, where leadership is passed down through family ties, to see if these are a cause of the persistent social and economic divides.
Weiye Loh

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Gender Stereotype Policy Gender Equality

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  • Weiye Loh on 07 Mar 12
     
    A significant role for women in policy-making allows diversity in the foreign policy landscape by recognising and integrating softer developmental concerns as well as their participation in peacemaking and security agendas. Advocacy of these policies must not be the exclusive purview of female leaders - it must be the responsibility of all policy-makers, irrespective of gender.
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The Economic Impact of the Pill - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Economics Contraception Income Gender Equality

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  • Weiye Loh on 06 Mar 12
     
    young women who won access to the pill in the 1960s ended up earning an 8 percent premium on their hourly wages by age 50.
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Haenyo - The Female Divers of Jeju Island | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities - 0 views

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Matriarchy Tax Gender Equality Korea

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  • Weiye Loh on 28 Feb 12
     
    Since large taxes were imposed on the sale of these items, men hardly ever dove in search of them. However, a loophole in the law allowed women divers to sell these creatures of the sea, tax free. This gave way to a large number of female divers around the 1800s. Slowly, this occupation grew to become a major driving force in the economy of the country. The women divers began to call themselves the haenyo.

    The growing presence of the haenyo had major cultural implications as well. Since the economy thrived under their tutelage, it naturally gave way to the formation of a matriarchal society - where women were held equal, if not superior, to men.
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Objectification Metrosexuality Gender Stereotype Gender Equality

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  • ‘As a female poet, I have noticed over the years that male poets are often described in terms of being the romantic hero, dark, handsome, wild, notoriously philandering and accompanied by beautiful (young) female muses to “inspire” his creativity; the same “rule” does not apply to women. So, what if one is a female creator? If desire, and the object of desire and beauty are creative catalysts, then why do we not see that same poetic stereotype?
  • Instead, the woman poet tends to just have the “mad” bit stuck to her rather than bad or dangerous to know!
  • Weiye Loh on 22 Feb 12
     
    in these metrosexy times, whilst men are the objects of many a picture, it is probably worth examining this subject matter closely. Because metrosexual imagery is often very  bland and samey. To be considered 'objects of desire' men have to have big tits and nice hair and svelt figures - oh, pretty much like women then.

    And, even in the 21st century, there are still not enough women working as photographers and film directors, making the images of men and women and people who identify as neither, that saturate our culture.
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