Counting Matters

Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada
Herausgeber: Gabriel, Christina; Rankin, L. Pauline

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Produktbeschreibung

Counting Matters emphasizes the importance of gender measurement as a distinct policy and social phenomena while exposing the flaws of the technocratic assumption that all aspects of gender equality can be strictly quantified.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780774870177
• ISBN-10: 0774870176
• Artikelnr.: 71649619

Autorenporträt

Christina Gabriel is a professor of political science at Carleton University. She has co-authored two books, Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century, and Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization. She has also co-edited Governing International Labour Migration: Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas. L. Pauline Rankin is a professor in the School of Canadian Studies, and the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at Carleton University. She has co-edited We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles and is co-author of Politics as If Women Mattered: A Political Analysis of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. Contributors: Hugh Armstrong, Pat Armstrong, Petrina Beals, Madeline Boscoe, Linda Briskin, Krystel Carrier, Jacqueline Choiniere, Stephanie E. Coen, Marion Doull, Maggie FitzGerald, Joan Grace, Nadia Ibrahim, Holly Johnson, Janet Jull, Lee Lakeman, Leah Levac, Laura Macdonald, Diana Majury, Jessica McCuaig, Marika Morris, Ann Pederson, Jennifer Petkovic, Manuela Popovici, Lorri Puil, Stephanie M. Redden, Vivien Runnels, Beverley J. Shea, Deborah Stienstra, Liam Swiss, Rebecca Tiessen, Sari Tudiver, and Vivian Welch

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / Maggie FitzGerald, Christina Gabriel, and L. Pauline Rankin
1 The Government of Canada's Gender Results Framework: A Tool in the
Construction of Equity for All / Marika Morris
2 Working Toward a Gender-Sensitive Parliament: The Politics of Gender
Equality Measurement / Joan Grace
3 Making the Equality Policy Process Visible: Developing a Gender-Based
Analysis Plus Framework in the Canada School of Public Service / Stephanie
M. Redden
4 Missing the Mark: Measuring Gender Equality in Maternal Health Programs
in the Muskoka Initiative / Rebecca Tiessen and Liam Swiss, with the
assistance of Krystel Carrier
5 Measuring Care: Neo-liberalism Comes to the Nursing Home / Pat Armstrong,
Hugh Armstrong, and Jacqueline Choiniere
6 Sex, Gender, and Systematic Reviews in Health: Building Critical
Engagement / Sari Tudiver, Madeline Boscoe, Vivien Runnels, Lorri Puil,
Janet Jull, Stephanie E. Coen, Marion Doull, Vivian Welch, Jennifer
Petkovic, Ann Pederson, and Beverley J. Shea
7 Violence against Women: A Measure of Inequality / Lee Lakeman, Holly
Johnson, Diana Majury, and Manuela Popovici¿
8 Measuring Violence against Women: A Multi-Scalar Portrait of Recent
Developments, Practices, and Issues / Maggie FitzGerald
9 Gender Equality Measurement, Collective Agency, and Trade Unions: A Way
Forward / Linda Briskin
10 Trade Policy and Gender Equality Measurement: The Canadian Government's
Inclusive Trade Strategy / Laura Macdonald and Nadia Ibrahim
11 Advancing Intersectional Considerations in Measuring Gender Equality: A
Community Vitality Index in Labrador / Leah Levac, Deborah Stienstra,
Petrina Beals, and Jessica McCuaig
Index