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Paridad de género y representación. El caso mexicanoGender parity and representation. The Mexican case
Ana Micaela Alterio
International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 19, Issue 4, October 2021, Pages 1417–1444, https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moab092
Published: 07 February 2022
... will critically reflect on the jurisprudence of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice regarding the constitutional principle of gender parity. To do so, it will rely on a theoretical reconstruction of three different foundations of the principle, based on the understanding of the political representation of women...
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First Female Neurosurgeon in the United States: Dorothy Klenke Nash, MD
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Stephanie M Casillo and others
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Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery, Volume 89, Issue 4, October 2021, Pages E223–E228, https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyab246
Published: 22 July 2021
... grandchildren and her Catholic faith. She died on March 5, 1976 at the age of 77. With unwavering tenacity, Dr Nash paved the way for all women in neurosurgery. Women in neurosurgery Historical vignette Biography Gender parity Dr Dorothy Klenke contributed to the advancement of neurosurgical practice through...
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Published: 25 March 2024
...This chapter focuses on issues of gender and indigenous representation, specifically the politics of gender-parity representation in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It highlights tensions in Mexico between legal and explicit norms, on the one hand, and tacit or community norms, on the other hand...
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Religious Parity versus Gender Parity
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Rafaela M. Dancygier
Published: 05 September 2017
...This chapter focuses on another consequence that emerges when parties' primary concern is to maximize votes: balancing religious parity with gender parity. A salient concern, voiced across the political spectrum, is that multicultural inclusion empowers conservative male community leaders...
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Higher Education in Malaysia
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Chang Da Wan
Published: 23 February 2023
... sub Saharan Africa Swinburne University United States Xiamen University Malaysia COVID 19 pandemic digital divide globalization online learning Times Higher Education THE World University Rankings gender parity ethnic quota autonomy academic freedom national language privatization...
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Career Dynamics and Gender Gaps Among Employees in the Microfinance Sector
Ina Ganguli and others
Published: 18 October 2018
... Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are commonly identified as empowering women and making them key actors in generating social change and economic development. Yet little is known about the gender parity among employees within the lending institutions themselves and how this can impact development. While MFIs...
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Fifty Years of Women at the European Court of Human Rights: Successes and Failures of the Council of Europe’s Gender Agenda
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Helen Keller and others
Published: 10 December 2020
... of judicial candidates must contain a member of the underrepresented gender, there is still work to be done. Enthusiasm for ensuring gender parity on the Strasbourg bench seems to be flagging, as reflected in the diminishing number of female ECtHR judges and the idea that additional measures are not necessary...
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Adjudicating International Trade Cases in the World Trade Organization: Does Gender Make a Difference?
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Valerie Hughes
Published: 10 December 2020
... appointed to the Appellate Body. But it also shows that most WTO Members generally have not thought about—or at least referred explicitly—to gender in identifying criteria for panellist selection, and that Members have not required gender parity or even significant representation of women on panels...
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Appearing Before and Sitting With Female Adjudicators: Reflections from Practice
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James Crawford
Published: 10 December 2020
... of gender parity and perpetuates the image of the male judge. 54 What also perpetuates the image of the judge as male is the plethora of photographs and paintings of the male judges of the ICJ, and its predecessor the Permanent Court of International Justice, which line the halls of the Court...
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Published: 08 March 2018
... diversity or numerical parity in Indian IT. Gender parity in Indian IT has been achieved through gender neutral merit, even if privileged, and opportunities; Indian IT women professionals were as meritorious as men, equal to men on the streamlined pure merit metrics. But, significant hurdles exist...
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The Price of Intimate Violence
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Anne P. DePrince
Published: 21 April 2022
... for businesses to play a role in the prevention of violence against women. COVID 19 pandemic economic security gender parity Cook Joan housing instability Houston Kazi Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center Trump administration Violence Against Women Act VAWA emergency shelters Legal Information Network...
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Published online: 23 January 2014
Published in print: 18 November 2013
...5–10 sentences, or around 200 words and no more than 250 words This book investigates the foundation story and mosaic programs (with their unique gender parity) of the ninth-century Roman church of S. Prassede rebuilt by Pope Paschal I (817-824). To a lesser extent its...
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From Mothers to Voters: Suffrage, Literacy, and Family Dynamics
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Published: 11 August 2011
..., women's empowerment had come through a celebration of motherhood, and the maternalist discourse advanced women's health and education without threatening patriarchy. But women's suffrage could not be achieved without recognition of the need for gender parity. Dreyfus Louis foods literacy military...
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Facings: My Clients Prefer a Woman Lawyer New Returns to Essentialism
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Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
Published: 12 January 2021
.... But although supportive peer interactions are necessary to create an environment of gender parity, women in elite law firms also are especially backed by an important external audience that does not actively discriminate on the basis of gender — their clients. Elite law firms in India, unlike their traditional...
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Futures: Now What? What Do We Do with the Accidental?
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Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
Published: 12 January 2021
...This chapter assesses the sustainability of the unintended gender parity in Indian elite law firms. What can we expect this accident to produce? And, to the extent we can predict it, how much will this early advantage influence the path dependency these firms are likely to instill in their future...
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Gender Parity, Legal Pluralism, and Human Rights of Indigenous Women: An Outlook from Mexico
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Dorothy Estrada-Tanck
Published: 27 September 2018
... Aura Mayan women García Sánchez Enrique Inti Mexico electoral gender parity indigenous women multiculturalism indigenous participation rights legal pluralism human rights This chapter explores the construction of gender parity and political participation of women in Mexico, on the one hand...
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‘Remember the women’: memory-making within loyalism
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Lisa Faulkner-Byrne and others
Published: 31 January 2023
... relations within and between communities is often overlooked. Gender parity at a regional political level has been difficult to achieve in Northern Ireland; likewise, gender parity has also been elusive in memory work. Over twenty years of the peace process and building peace in Northern Ireland has...
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Published: 15 February 2018
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The Gendered Consequences of Rules about Selection
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Claire Annesley and others
Published: 19 September 2019
... the construction of gender parity cabinets. The chapter contrasts the cases of two highly empowered selectors (Justin Trudeau and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero) who formed gender parity cabinets with Tony Abbott’s formation of a cabinet with just one female minister. The chapter also contrasts the cases of two...
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Keeping Gender on the Agenda for International Benches: A Case Study of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
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J Jarpa Dawuni
Published: 10 December 2020
... analyses the descriptive, symbolic, and substantive representation of women judges in international courts and tribunals. The last couple of years have witnessed slow progress in the quest to achieve sex balanced or gender parity benchmarks on the benches of international courts. While some courts have...
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