Measurement Imperatives and Gender Politics
An Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12425815 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doris Bu (0000-0003-3621-2040, Carleton University, corresponding author), Doris Buss |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381-389 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sp/jxv030 |
| OpenAlex | W1870340346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 24 |
Doing gender equality policy work increasingly involves measurement, whether through the gathering and analysis of data on gender inequality, or the reporting and accounting for gender programming outcomes and outputs. This introduction to a special issue on gender and the measurement imperative outlines some of the main strands in the emerging critical literature on measurement, highlighting two main themes: measurement and social construction—the ways in which regimes of measure both constitute social reality and are themselves sites of social contestation—and the governing effects of measurement regimes. I explore below some of the gendered dynamics of the social dimensions of measurement, which are the subject of feminist inquiry and/or are topics on which more research is needed
Gender inequality · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender Politics and Representation · Human Rights and Development · International Human Rights and Reproductive Law · Gender Studies
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Igualdad de género en el diseño del Programa de Transferencias Condicionadas Progresa
Measuring social norms for gender and development
Igualdade de Gênero nos Cuidados de Saúde
Gender Data, Intersectionality, and a Feminist Politics of “Negotiated Refusal
Counting gender (in)equality? a feminist geographical critique of the ‘gender data revolution’
On Being Uncomfortable
The politics of naming public spaces in Tehran
The hammer and the nail
Gender and Intersectionality in Business and Human Rights Scholarship
Shifting frames
Gender, the World Bank, and conditional cash transfers in Latin America
Obscuring Gendered Difference
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems
Supply-Side Versus Demand-Side Unmet Need
Gender critical' feminism as biopolitical project
The View from the Farm
The Seductions of Quantification
Historical Ontology
Sorting Things Out
Prepare your indicators
Making serious measures
Gender-Responsive Approaches to Measuring Aid Effectiveness
Accounting for Blame
Degendering Violence
The Numbers Do(n't) Always Add Up
Dangerous tales
Measuring women's progress in a global era
A Sociology of Quantification
Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance
Dueling incentives
A History of the Modern Fact
Technologies of truth in the anthropology of conflict
Measuring the World
Rankings and Reactivity
You end up doing the document rather than doing the doing
Problems and prospects of measurement in the study of culture
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |