Despite explicit commitments to gender equality, women experience complex modes of disadvantage and discrimination in all nations of the world. Offering sophisticated insights into the persistence of gendered differences in opportunities, roles, power, and rights in societies across the globe, this volume investigates factors that both enable and constrain women's advancement. From intimate relations within families, to social norms, relations, ideologies, and structures of power, to political institutions, electoral systems, and public policies, the chapters analyze possibilities for and obstacles to inclusive democratic practices and identify interventions essential to enable democratic values to take root. Contributors from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the USA provide detailed assessments of the social, economic, and political condition of women, their mobilizations to produce transform gendered power and authority in diverse nations, and their efforts to enhance the quality of their lives, their communities, and democratic governance.
Mino Vianello (University of Rome, 'La Sapienza') has concentrated his research over the last forty years on the issue of gender and power. His pathbreaking work, Gendering Elites: Economic and Political Leadership in 27 Industrialised Societies (2000) received the Descartes Prize for the Social Sciences from the European Commission.
Mary Hawkesworth is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, USA. Her recent works include Political Worlds of Women: Activism, Advocacy, and Governance in the 21st Century (2012); War and Terror: Feminist Perspectives (2008); Globalization and Feminist Activism (2006); and Feminist Inquiry: From Political Conviction to Methodological Innovation (2006).
Elisabetta Addis, Professor of Economics, University of Sassari, Italy Jane Bayes, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of Gender, Globalization, and Democracy at California State University, Northridge, USA Elena Caramazza, Preceptor of the Italian Association of Analytical Psychology Raewyn Connell, University Chair, University of Sydney, Australia Moha Ennaji, Professor at Fès University, Morocco, and Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, USA Joyce Gelb, Professor Emerita of Political Science, City College of New York and Graduate Center, CUNY, USA Piero P. Giorgi, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Biology Mary Hawkesworth, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, USA Elena Liotta, clinical psychologist José Álvaro Moisés, Professor Political Science and Director of the Center for Public Policy Research (NUPPs), University of São Paulo, Brazil Leslye Obiora, Professor of Law, University of Arizona, USA Michal Palgi, Head of the Institute for Research of the Kibbutz and the Cooperative Idea, University of Haifa, Israel Eva Pattis, clinical psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst Valeria Perucca, Medical Anthropologist and member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute on Decision Making Processes in Emergency Medicine, Catholic University of Milan, Italy Fatima Sadiqi, Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies, Fès University, Morocco Ki-young Shin, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences and Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Japan Renata Siemienska-Zochowska, Professor, Institute of Sociology and UNESCO Chair of Women, Society and Development, University of Warsaw, Poland Mino Vianello, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy Luigi Zoja, Past-President of the IAAP (International Association of Analytical Psychology), Italy
