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Gender and human rights Gender and human rights Anu Saksena On Indian women workers and their rights in light of the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women; a study. OL1069838W
Women, Islam, and international law within the context of the Convention on the Elimination of All … Women, Islam, and international law within the context of the Convention on the Elimination of All … Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko Islam and women's human rights entertain an uneasy relationsship. Much has been written on the subject. This book addresses it from a new perspective. It attempts to define some basis for constructiv… OL13600545W
Gender and violence in the Middle East Gender and violence in the Middle East David Ghanim Gender and Violence in the Middle East argues that violence is fundamental to the functioning of the patriarchal gender structure that governs daily life in Middle Eastern societies. Ghanim contends … OL13609334W
The F word The F word Jane Caro This book is about the work/life balance and the conflicting messages women receive about how they are supposed to live. It is also about the state of feminism as a concept today feminism has become… OL13760356W
Selling women short Selling women short Liza Featherstone "Betty Dukes is a devoutly religious African-American woman who didn't know the meaning of sex discrimination until she started working for Wal-Mart. She joined the company to get ahead, hoping to be… OL16039359W
Grace and grit Grace and grit Lilly M. Ledbetter "Married at seventeen, Lilly soon had two children. Depressed about the poverty her family was living in, and the death of her dreams of a bigger life, she went against her husband's wishes and got a… OL16134761W
Atlas of gender and development Atlas of gender and development Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre Illustrated with graphics and maps, this publication provides insight into the impact of social institutions - traditions, social norms and cultural practices - on gender equality in 124 non-OECD cou… OL16953518W
Unnatural selection Unnatural selection Mara Hvistendahl "Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed se… OL17745657W
Unpaid work and the economy Unpaid work and the economy Indira Hirway "This volume uses unpaid work and time-use survey data (TUS) from across the global South to elucidate the need to incorporate unpaid work into economic analysis in order to better understand poverty… OL18674050W
With justice for all With justice for all Dorothy Taylor,Dorothy L. Taylor,Janice Joseph "Women, and especially minorities, have long been neglected in the study of criminal justice. The government has treated disparate groups differently for too many years. Women and minorities are such… OL18837429W
Forsaken Forsaken Lana Slezic In 2004, the author went on a photographic assignment to Afghanistan. At the time she believed that since the ousting of the repressive Taliban in 2001, Afghan women and girls were living under consi… OL19645011W
Tainted witness Tainted witness Leigh Gilmore in 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed… OL19664250W
Unfinished business Unfinished business Anne-Marie Slaughter "When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could juggle the demands of her position … OL19666461W
Reset Reset Ellen K. Pao The co-founder of the diversity nonprofit Project Include shares the story behind her landmark 2015 lawsuit against powerhouse venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins, exploring what her case and ref… OL19712884W
The Paula principle The Paula principle Tom Schuller Whereas 'The Peter Principle', a four-million-copy bestseller from the 1960s, argued that most (male) workers will inevitably be promoted to one level beyond their competence, Tom Schuller shows how … OL19752158W
Assault and flattery Assault and flattery Katie Pavlich "In the vein of fellow female pugilists Ann Coulter and Michele Malkin, [Pavlich explores what she sees as] the Democratic stance toward women on every major current issue and in every liberal strong… OL19982915W
Women, disability, and identity Women, disability, and identity Asha Hans This volume consists of critical and theoretical articles about women with disabilities in both developed and developing countries. Disabled women and their place in these societies has been a subjec… OL20775573W
El siglo de las mujeres El siglo de las mujeres Victoria Camps 139 p. ; 21 cm OL2271107W
Women, law, and social change Women, law, and social change B. Dawson "Coming on the heels of the highly popular fourth edition, Women, Law and Social Change, 5e continues to provide a foundation for how Canadian law and legal process have connected or disconnected wom… OL23389896W
Unfinished business Unfinished business Anne-Marie Slaughter When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" first appeared, it immediately went viral, sparking a firestorm of debate across countries and continents. Within fou… OL24305632W
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