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Gender-blindness


  • Here are entered works on the disregarding of gender differences when assessing any planned action. Works on assessing any planned action in light of differences between genders are entered under [Gender mainstreaming.]
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    • found: Work cat: 2019018959: Miller, Lucy J. Genderblindness in American society, 2019summary (This book rhetorically analyzes discourses of the current genderblind system of social control that seeks to render gender as irrelevant in public life. The author reveals the functioning of genderblindness as ideology through examining discourse on the gender wage gap, abortion rights, rape culture, and tech culture)
    • found: European Institute for Gender Equality WWW site, viewed August 22, 2019gender blindness (Failure to recognise that the roles and responsibilities of women/girls and men/boys are ascribed to, or imposed upon, them in specific social, cultural, economic and political contexts) - https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1157
    • found: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations WWW site, viewed August 22, 2019(The lack of awareness of men's and women's specific and different roles in and contributions to agricultural production and food security results in what has been called "gender blindness". Unaware of these differences, policy-makers, planners and extensionists proceed as if they did not exist and as though the situation and needs of farmers were the same for both men and women. This results in the situation and needs of male farmers being taken into account, but not those of women farmers. Thus policy-making, planning and extension services are built on a partial view of reality) - http://www.fao.org/3/W8376E/w8376e02.htm#3.1%20gender%20blindness%20and%20invisibility%20of%20women's%20roles%20in%20and%20contributions%20to%20f
    • found: Reosti, Anna. From gender blindness to recognition of difference, 2012.
    • found: Perez, Caroline Criado. Invisible women, 2019, via Google Books, viewed August 22, 2019unpaged (US universities provide another example of how gender-blind leave policies can end up discriminating against women)
    • found: Messerschmidt, James W. Masculinities and crime, 1993, via Google Books, viewed August 22, 2019page 1 (major theoretical works in criminology are alarmingly gender-blind. That is, while men and boys have been seen as the 'normal subjects,' the gendered content of their legitimate and illegitimate behavior has been virtually ignored. So remarkable has been the gender-blindness of criminology that whenever the high gender ratio of crime is actually considered, criminology has asked 'why it is that women do not offend?' (rather than 'why do men disproportionately commit crime?')
    • found: Orloff, A. Gender in the welfare state, in Annual Review of Sociology, v. 22, 1996(Many feminist analysts have critiqued Esping-Andersen for the genderblindness of his scheme: His citizens are implicitly male workers; his dimensions tap into states' impact on class relations and the relationship between states and markets without considering gender differences within classes or the relations between states and families; he leaves invisible women's work on behalf of societal welfare (i.e. unpaid caring/domestic labor); and his framework fails to consider states' effects on gender relations, inequalities, and power)
    • found: Collins English dictionary online, viewed Jan. 7, 2020(Gender blind: not discriminating on the basis of gender, or not making a distinction between genders)
    • found: Association for Psychological Science web site, viewed Jan. 7, 2020(Gender-blind thinking may reduce workplace confidence gap: Gender blindness entails focusing on similarities between men and women, rather than their differences)
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    • Here are entered works on the disregarding of gender differences when assessing any planned action. Works on assessing any planned action in light of differences between genders are entered under [Gender mainstreaming.]
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    • Note under [Gender mainstreaming]
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    • 2019-08-22: new
    • 2020-04-16: revised
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