Appunti di Sociologia - Filed under 'gender'

March 8, 2010

Otto marzo: un po' di rabbia e un po' di moralismo

Oggi è l’8 marzo, e non posso fare a meno di pensare a quante stasera andranno a festeggiare con le amiche, magari con uno spettacolo di spogliarello maschile. Permesso per uscire con le amiche, solo una volta l’anno (e non lo dico per dire: conosco donne che devono chidere il "permesso" di uscire ai mariti).

Non è che voglio fare la moralista. Anzi, sì: un po’ di moralismo, nel giorno in cui si ricordano le operaie morte nell’incendio di un cotonificio americano, ci può anche stare.

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February 9, 2010

Seminario: Engendering migration

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Università degli Studi di Padova
24 febbraio 2010 ore 10.30 – 16.00
Sala degli Specchi
Dipartimento di Sociologia

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February 4, 2010

Practising Gender Equality in Science: disponibili i prodotti finali del progetto

DISPONIBILI ON LINE I MATERIALI DI PRAGES Sono disponibili on line i prodotti finali del progetto europeo PRAGES — Practising Gender Equality in Science (FP7/2007—2013 G.A.217754):
— Scarica le Guidelines for Gender Equality Programmes in Science;
— Consulta il database delle buone pratiche di supporto alla presenza delle donne nel decision making della ricerca scientifica e tecnologica: http://www.retepariopportunita.it/prages
— Scarica il documento di sintesi del data—base sulle buone pratiche
— Scarica i materiali del seminario internazionale Il cammino delle donne nella scienza. Lezioni apprese e nuove sfide per l’eguaglianza che si è svolto a Roma il 3—4 dicembre 2009 http://www.retepariopportunita.it/DefaultDesktop.aspx?page=3464

via asdo-info.org

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November 30, 2009

Volume: Sociologia della paternità

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Federica Bertocchi, Sociologia della paternità, Cedam, Padova, 2009.

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October 29, 2009

Gender Interuniversity Observatory: seminario di presentazione

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"Studi di genere e pari opportunità"

5 Novembre 2009

Dip. di Filosofia, Università di Roma Tre .
Via Ostiense 234 - 00146 ROMA;
E-mail: gender.obs@uniroma3.it
www.genderunivobs.it

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October 29, 2009

Social Influences on Biology

The nature/nurture debate that posits a competition between biological and social/cultural influences on human behavior is alive and well in the mass media. But scholars largely agree that culture and biology interact; biological realities shape our social world, but our social world also shapes our biologies.

One strain of research demonstrating this has shown that men’s testosterone levels (associated with feelings of well-being) rise and drop in response to social (and socially constructed) cues. For example, the testosterone levels of the winner of a tennis match will rise after his win, while his opponent will see his levels go down. Similarly, measuring men’s testosterone levels won’t tell you which men walking down the sidewalk will enter a strip club, but the men leaving the strip club will have higher testosterone levels than the men who passed it by.

Matt C. alerted me to a test of this phenomenon using the Presidential election. There was a slight drop in testosterone levels for men who voted for Obama (normal because men’s testosterone levels tend to drop at night), but a dramatic drop for men who voted for McCain or the Libertarian candidate, Barr.

So, there you have it, biological responses to social cues.

via feedproxy.google.com

Another (strange) effect recently ascribed to testosterone is the financial crisis; see: Il mondo potrebbe essere migliore

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October 22, 2009

Eurofound: Gender pay gap still persists

via eurofound.europa.eu

Figure 1: Average collectively agreed pay increases, 2007 and 2008 (%)

EIRO’s annual analysis of pay trends finds that the average collectively agreed nominal wage increase across the EU fell from 7% in 2007 to 6.6% in 2008. Taking into account inflation, which rose strongly in 2008, the rate of real pay increase across the EU fell sharply, from 3.6% in 2007 to 1.3% in 2008. During the period under review, differences in terms of both pay trends and the level of pay increases persisted between the EU Member States that constituted the EU before the enlargement of 1 May 2004 and those that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. The report also examines collectively agreed pay increases in three selected sectors (metalworking, banking and local government), current wage rates and minimum wage increases, increases in average earnings, as well as the extent of the gender pay gap across all countries.

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October 21, 2009

Seminario"Corpi in scena: immagini femminili nei media"

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29 ottobre 2009 alle h. 17.00,
Cripta Aula Magna dell'Università Cattolica del S. Cuore di Milano.

Centro per lo studio della moda e della produzione culturale
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo A. Gemelli, 1
20123 Milano
tel.: 02-7234.2505
fax: 02-7234.3665
www.unicatt.it/modacult
e-mail: centro.modacult@unicatt.it

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October 21, 2009

Mogli e madri

Foto scattata a Teramo il 13 ottobre.
Un giornale locale riporta la notizia del suicidio di una donna,
definendola "moglie e madre".

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February 13, 2009

Il mondo potrebbe essere migliore

«Banks around the world desperately want bailouts of billions of dollars, but they also have another need they’re unaware of: women, women and women.»

Lo dice il New York Times. Un altro articolo che tenta di capire come mai a Wall Street sia accaduto quel che è accaduto.

«Wall Street is one of the most male-dominated bastions in the business world; senior staff meetings resemble a urologist’s waiting room. Aside from issues of fairness, there’s evidence that the result is second-rate decision-making.
«“There seems to be a strong consensus that diverse groups perform better at problem solving” than homogeneous groups, Lu Hong and Scott E. Page wrote in The Journal of Economic Theory, summarizing the research in the field.»

E il motivo sarebbe presto detto: gli uomini di mattina hanno livelli di testoterone “troppo” elevati, evidenziando dunque una preoccupante preferenza ad assumersi eccessivi rischi.

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