Publications of Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
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Oportunidades y barreras en la trayectoria de las científicas sociales peruanas
This chapter is part of these efforts and is the result of the Grupo Sofía’s agenda, which aims to deepen the analysis of the disparities between women’s and men’s experiences in the academic labour market in the social sciences. Specifically, we analyse the opportunities and barriers faced by Peruvian women social scientists during their academic […]
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El entorno de la investigación social en el Perú
In Peru there are important coincidences with the findings of this literature, but there are also particularities that can be explained by what we can describe as the precarious environment in which academic research is developed in the country, an environment that deepens some gender inequalities that are also raised in this book.
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¿Cómo abordar el estudio de las inequidades de género en el mundo académico?
This first chapter seeks to situate readers of this book in this shared conceptual approach to the problem of gender inequalities in academia. To this, we present a brief discussion of how we approach regimes of inequality in academia and research, and the main contributions of the international literature on how differences between women and […]
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Social protection, economic opportunity strategies and women’s empowerment in Peru
This article presents results from two evaluation studies aimed at providing evidence of the impact of social protection programmes on women’s well-being. Specifically, the studies evaluate the impacts of the Peruvian programmes Haku Wiñay and Juntos on women’s empowerment dimensions, such as decision-making on household resources, gender roles and ideology, self-esteem and domestic violence. Findings from […]
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Interacción social y crimen: un análisis del caso peruano a nivel provincial
El presente estudio pretende documentar si la correlación entre las decisiones personales, definida como “interacción social”, contribuye a generar un mayor entendimiento acerca del fenómeno del crimen y su varianza.
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Prevalencia de delitos en la población penal peruana: desorganización social versus aprendizaje social
The aim of the study is to identify the main factors that influence a person commits a type of crime. We will focus on two theories: social learning and social disorganization, comparing each other to determine which one is more important. A second objective is to study how crime’s main drivers and gender relate to […]
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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Transiciones inciertas: una mirada a los jóvenes de contextos urbanos vulnerables de Lima
In line with the literature that conceives of youth as a transition process that takes place in a particular economic, social and political context that shapes differentiated trajectories, this study analyses the main barriers and opportunities that young Peruvians from vulnerable urban contexts encounter in their transition to adulthood. Through participatory work with young people […]
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Do Dreams Come True? Aspirations and Educational Attainments of Ethiopian Boys and Girls
Authors use unique individual-level panel data from Ethiopia to investigate the role of aspirations for human-capital investments. More specifically, they investigate how parental and children’s aspirations form and document the relation between early aspirations and educational attainment at the age of 15 and 19. Researchers find that aspirations are predictive of the number of year of schooling completed upon controlling […]
