FSP - Gender Studies

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    Family background, gender and reading achievement in Romania
    (Fundatia 'Orient Expres', 2015) Țoc, Sebastian; Gheba, Andreea
    In the last years, Romania formally tried to overcome the problems related to inequality of opportunity in education. This paper examines the role of home resources and gender in determining academic performance. Based on secondary data drawn from Progress in International Reading Literacy Study we suggest that both gender and home resources have a significant impact on the reading achievement of students. The existing work operationalizes the differences in reading achievement as an indicator for life chances, being proportional with economic success later in life. Our findings contradict ideas about equality of opportunity promoted by the official curriculum regarding the individual merit as the main factor that places students in privileged social positions.
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    Political parties, women’s organizations and gender quota
    (Tritonic, 2015) Dragolea, Alina
    Across the world more and more states establish some form of gender quotas. Even in states that were reluctant to have any form of “preferential” treatment for women (such as were the Central and Eastern Europe countries) the combination between a favorable gender equality climate, women’s mobilization and political parties’ will has led to 15 states establishing quotas. Romania has only (inefficient) voluntary political parties’ quotas and one of the lowest levels of women elected worldwide. When quotas are needed who and why can be more successful in pushing for their establishment? This article’s thesis is that women’s organizations inside political parties can be successful in their mobilization to establish quotas because they can use both pragmatic and normative reasons.
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    Women's social exclusion and feminisms : living in parallel worlds? : the Romanian case
    (LIT Verlag, 2012) Iancu, Alice; Băluță, Oana; Dragolea, Alina; Florian, Bogdan
    Eastern feminism and women living in Eastern Europe in the last twenty years have lived their specific distinct realities. While growing gender inequalities affected women during transition, Romanian feminists have faced specific difficulties of their own, both theoretical and practical. How to use Western perspectives to analyze a distinct Romanian gender reality, how to ensure the relevance of analysis through both theoretical positioning and empirical research, these were typical dilemmas during the transition.
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    Illiberal discourse in Romania : a “Golden” new beginning?
    (Cogitatio Press, 2022) Dragolea, Alina
    While interest in illiberalism has increased in recent years, the study of the connections between anti-gender discourse and transnational dissemination is a more recent scholarly endeavour. Emerging feminist scholarship has helped to move beyond national cases of illiberalism to understand how the gendered nature of illiberalism is revealed through its ability to cross borders and, in recent years, to become a movement with a transnational character. This article examines the evolution of the political discourse on gender in Romania and proposes a three-stage framework leading from gender traditionalism to a more pronounced illiberal discourse. The article examines whether the recent rise of the political party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (Alianța pentru Unirea României, AUR) represents a new step towards an established political illiberal discourse in Romania. The official public addresses of AUR are analysed to show how the terminology and themes identified as cornerstones of illiberalism (e.g., anti-gender, traditional family, opposition to reproductive rights, education, and anti-LGBTQ) are incorporated into its rhetoric.