Browsing Equality Studies - IADT by Title
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Addressing Gender Inequality in Academia: The Role of Irish Funding Agencies
(Routledge, 2020-07)The endorsement by the Irish Higher Education Authority (HEA) of the Athena SWAN Charter as a means of stimulating change towards gender equality was a turning point in the formalisation of processes to address gender ... -
Electoral quotas and women’s rights
(Springer, 2018-09)Electoral gender quotas, which aim to increase either the proportion of women candidates or political representatives, are currently used in over a hundred countries around the world. In most cases quota measures have been ... -
Social Networking; the People's Politics
(2012-04)Social networking gives a public voice to individuals and allows them to engage with society in ways not previously possible. Shirky (2010) argues that a driver for building civic engagement is the group working which is ... -
Understanding leadership in higher education as a tool for change in relation to gender
(Routledge, 2020-07)Leadership in Irish higher education remains something of a monoculture. This extends not just to age, gender and ethnicity but to discipline. In an attempt to identify, nurture, motivate and empower new leaders of all ... -
Women beyond the Dáil: establishing local caucus for women councillors
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Women beyond the Dáil: more women in local government.
(National Women's Council of Ireland, 2019-11)