Description
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a new view on gender structuring in contemporary Slovenia and the persistence of the gender order – produced and reproduced through gender regimes in education, work, family life and politics. With a focus on the low presence of women in politics, the study analyses empirical data, mapping structural changes, delays of changes and the persistence of existing social structures over several decades. It appears that the choices individuals make in their lives are made in a specific social context of structural opportunities and obstacles. As such, gender difference is first socially produced and later universally used for justification of that stratification.
Table of ContentsContents: Milica Antić Gaber: The Structuring of Slovenian Society and Gender as the Structured and the Structuring Structure – Slavko Gaber: Contemporary Slovenian Society and its Rationalities – Veronika Tašner/Sara Rožman: The Influence of Changes in the Field of Education on the Position of Women in Slovenian Society and Politics – Pavel Zgaga: The Influence of the Dynamics of Higher Education on the Gender Structure – Iztok Šori/Živa Humer: Institutions and Mechanisms of the Reproduction of Gender Order in the Fields of the Family and Politics – Jasna Podreka/Milica Antić Gaber: Paid Work, Prestige Professions and Politics – Irena Selišnik/Milica Antić Gaber: Women, Politics and the Value Orientations of Contemporary Slovenian Society.
