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Wohlstand für Alle
Ep. 269: Wie Dating und Heiratsmarkt heute funktionieren

Wohlstand für Alle

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024 46:06


Während das romantische Ideal besagt, dass sich "Herz zu Herzen findet", zeigt sich in der Realität häufig: Geld heiratet Geld. Wir diskutieren, wie die assortative Partnerwahl – also die Tendenz, Partner aus der gleichen Einkommens- oder Bildungsschicht zu wählen – zur wachsenden Ungleichheit beiträgt. Ein weiteres Thema sind die Auswirkungen von Dating-Apps auf den Heiratsmarkt. Studien zeigen, dass über die Hälfte der Ehen heutzutage durch Apps zustande kommen, was den Trend zur "Paarung unter Gleichen" verstärkt. Hier spielen vor allem Bildung, Einkommen und soziale Klasse eine Rolle. Die wachsenden Optionen führen aber nicht unbedingt zu einer besseren "Matching-Effizienz" – vielmehr verstärken sie die Selektivität bei der Partnerwahl. „Nehmen Sie `nen Alten!“, empfahl Otto Reuter in den 1920er Jahren den Frauen, da es Männermangel aufgrund des Ersten Weltkriegs gab. Heute gibt es hingegen einen Männerüberschuss im Osten Deutschlands, aber auch sonst haben es Männer auf dem Heiratsmarkt deutlich schwerer. Die Bildungsexpansion hat für die Frauen ausgezeichnet funktioniert, junge Frauen mit Studienabschluss sind nun in westlichen Ländern in der Überzahl. Diese gut ausgebildeten Frauen suchen adäquate Partner, von denen es aber nicht genügend gibt. Mehr dazu von Ole Nymoen und Wolfgang M. Schmitt in der neuen Folge von „Wohlstand für Alle“! Literatur: Gustaf Guze über Bildung zwecks Heirat: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24517893 Zahlen zum Männerüberschuss im Osten: https://www.bib.bund.de/DE/Fakten/Fakt/B94-Geschlechterproportion-Alter-15-49-Kreise.html#:~:text=In%20der%20Mehrzahl%20der%20ostdeutschen,110%20M%C3%A4nner%20auf%20100%20Frauen. Ein Spiegel-Artikel über Führungspersönlichkeiten und ihre Frauen: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/heiratsmarkt-hoehergebildete-frauen-und-maenner-heiraten-untereinander-a-1016268.html Michael Hartmann über die Ehen von Top-Verdienern: https://taz.de/!91767/ Valerie M. Hudson und Hilary Matfess in “International Security” über den Brautpreis: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26777808 Studie “Marriage Market Sorting in the U.S.”: https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2023/2023-023.pdf Eine Studie zu monetären Aspekten bei GenZ und Millenials: https://news.northwesternmutual.com/planning-and-progress-study-2023 Die Zahlen zu Studienabschlüssen bei Frauen und Männern. https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/zahlen-und-fakten/europa/299805/hochschulabschluss/ John Burn-Murdoch in der “FT” über abgehängte Männer: https://www.ft.com/content/17606f25-1d03-4f37-b7f4-f39989af9bde Termine: Am 14.10 um 17:00 ist Wolfgang in Frankfurt auf einem Podium, um über „Visual Power and the Game of Influence: The Role of Film and Propaganda in the Digital Age“ zu sprechen: https://vp.eventival.com/b3/2024/film-schedule?day=2024-10-14&view=compact&showScreenings=1&showEvents=1 Am 16.10. präsentiert Wolfgang gemeinsam mit dem Regisseur Felix M. Bühler den Dokumentarfilm „Bis hierhin und wie weiter?“ in Koblenz: https://www.odeon-apollo-kino.de/event/114790 Am 17.10. und 19. 10. sind Wolfgang und Ole bei einer Tagung in Frankfurt – Oles Termin steht aber noch nicht genau fest: https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/295/organisierte-halbbildung-konferenz-zur-kritik-der-neoliberalen-universitaet.html Am 23. 10. stellen Ole und Wolfgang ihr Kinderbuch in Mainz vor: https://asta.uni-mainz.de/files/2024/09/PNG-PolBi-KriWo24.png Unser Kinderbuch namens "Die kleinen Holzdiebe" ist nun erschienen! Alle Informationen findet ihr unter: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/die-kleinen-holzdiebe-und-das-raetsel-des-juggernaut-t-9783458644774 Unsere Zusatzinhalte könnt ihr bei Steady und Patreon hören. Vielen Dank! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oleundwolfgang Steady: https://steadyhq.com/de/oleundwolfgang/about Ihr könnt uns unterstützen - herzlichen Dank! Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/oleundwolfgang Konto: Wolfgang M. Schmitt, Ole Nymoen Betreff: Wohlstand fuer Alle IBAN: DE67 5745 0120 0130 7996 12 BIC: MALADE51NWD Social Media: Instagram: Unser gemeinsamer Kanal: https://www.instagram.com/oleundwolfgang/ Ole: https://www.instagram.com/ole.nymoen/ Wolfgang: https://www.instagram.com/wolfgangmschmitt/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oleundwolfgang Twitter: Unser gemeinsamer Kanal: https://twitter.com/OleUndWolfgang Ole: twitter.com/nymoen_ole Wolfgang: twitter.com/SchmittJunior Die gesamte WfA-Literaturliste: https://wohlstand-fuer-alle.netlify.app

Hab ich das laut gesagt?!
#70 Die Hälfte der Bevölkerung...!

Hab ich das laut gesagt?!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021 37:32


Die Hälfte der Bevölkerung sind Frauen und Gewalt gegen Frauen ist schlicht und ergreifend Terrorismus... und es ist nicht nur das.. Es sind die Macht-Strukturen, die die Ungleichheit zwischen Männern und Frauen aufrechterhalten und Sexismus, Anti-Feminismus, Frauenhass,... ermöglichen. Das ist unter anderem das Forschungsgebiet von Valerie M. Hudson, Professorin für Politikwissenschaft an der Bush School of Government and Public Service der Texas A&M University. Diese Strukturen sind es auch, die den Weg für Rechtsextremismus und Nationalismus in Europa und in der Welt ebnen, so der Soziologe und Männlichkeitsforscher Rolf Pohl.

The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast
E029. Valerie Hudson on The First Political Order

The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2021 56:40


Ayaan speaks with Valerie Hudson about patriarchy and its expressions throughout history. They also discuss dangerous practices that hold women back, such as child marriage, polygamy, and exclusion from inheritance. Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H.W. Bush Chair in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public... Source

The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast
E029. Valerie Hudson on The First Political Order

The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2021 56:40


Ayaan speaks with Valerie Hudson about patriarchy and its expressions throughout history. They also discuss dangerous practices that hold women back, such as child marriage, polygamy, and exclusion from inheritance. Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H.W. Bush Chair in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the program on Women, Peace, and Security. Her co-authored books include Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population, Sex and World Peace, The Hillary Doctrine, and The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide. She is a co-founder and principal investigator of The WomanStats Project (http://womanstats.org). Follow her on Twitter @WomanStats, on Instagram @womanstats, and on Facebook at WomanStats Project. Follow Ayaan on Twitter @ayaan. Subscribe to her website at ayaanhirsiali.com.

The Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed
The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast: Valerie Hudson on The First Political Order (#029)

The Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2021 56:40


Ayaan speaks with Valerie Hudson about patriarchy and its expressions throughout history. They also discuss dangerous practices that hold women back, such as child marriage, polygamy, and exclusion from inheritance. Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H.W. Bush Chair in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School […]

Womanhood
How Does the Security of Women Affect the Security of Nations and Why is it Important for Peace? With Dr. Valerie M. Hudson

Womanhood

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2021 34:40


Dr. Valerie M. Hudson discusses how the security of women affects the security of nations and why this is so important to ensuring peace and gender equity worldwide. We discuss why the subordination of women continues to exist, the positive and negative effects of globalization, what you can do to fight for women's equity, and much more! Find her most recent book, The First Political Order, and others through her website: http://vmrhudson.org Women Stats Project: http://www.womanstats.org

Mormon FAIR-Cast
FAIR Voice Podcast #28: Valerie Hudson on Women and the Priesthood

Mormon FAIR-Cast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2021 48:53


Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H.W. Bush Chair at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. She has previously taught at Brigham Young, Northwestern, and Rutgers universities. Her research foci include foreign policy […] The post FAIR Voice Podcast #28: Valerie Hudson on Women and the Priesthood appeared first on FairMormon.

Friday Podcasts From ECSP and MHI
Episode 238: Valerie M. Hudson on How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide

Friday Podcasts From ECSP and MHI

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2021 13:51


“The very first political order in any society is the sexual political order established between men and women,” says Valerie M. Hudson, a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M, in today’s Friday Podcast, recorded at a recent Wilson Center launch of the book, The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide. Co-authored by Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, Professor Emerita at Brigham Young University, and P. Lynne Nielson, a statistics professor at Brigham Young University, the book investigates how the relationship between men and women shapes the wider political order. “We argue, along with many other scholars, that the character of that first order molds the society, its governance, and its behavior,” says Hudson. “The subordination of women, the straitjacketing of women if you will, through this Syndrome, harms not just women, but children, men, and whole societies,” says Hudson, referring to the “Patrilineal/Fraternal Syndrome.” The Syndrome, as defined by Hudson and her co-authors, is a series of interlocking mechanisms designed to keep women subordinated. These mechanisms start with the violent coercion of women by men to get what they want and loop, like magnetic beads, to systematic means of female control, such as son preference, early marriage, polygamy, bride price, and dowries. “The syndrome is really a trap,” says Hudson, and the subordinate system sets societies up for poor health, food insecurity, low economic performance, demographic woes, and a lack of attention to environmental security. The Syndrome leads societies to unfortunate outcomes “because it’s based upon a first political order of instability, domestic instability, domestic violence, domestic terror, domestic corruption, and domestic autocracy.” Hudson says in discussing these topics with U.S. national security audiences she asks whether the audience considers themselves to be national security realists—if they believe the treatment of women does affect national security instability and if they believe that the women, peace, and security agenda is in the national interest. “Can you call yourself a realist if you don’t?” she asks. “If the U.S. isn’t tracking the situation with women, how is it going to effectively anticipate instability in other countries?” “Let’s suppose that we accept that women matter. What would change in how we do business?” asks Hudson. Without accepting that women matter, how could the U.S. know to avoid peace negotiations that are detrimental for women; track internal threats if domestic violence isn’t viewed as domestic terror perpetration; recognize that ending child marriage globally would do more for world peace than any other investment; and know when exporting democracy could be effective, and where it’s likely to fail. “I believe that one day the idea that foreign policy or national security policy could ignore the situation of women will be seen as laughably naive,” says Hudson.

Sicherheitshalber
#33 Feministische Außenpolitik| Flugabwehr gegen Drohnen (Fähigkeitslücke “short range air defense”)

Sicherheitshalber

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2020 82:53


“Sicherheitshalber” ist der Podcast zur sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt. In Folge 33 sprechen Thomas Wiegold, Ulrike Franke, Frank Sauer und Carlo Masala mit Nina Bernarding vom Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. Die vier Podcaster lernen, was die Kerngehalte feministischer Außenpolitik sind und steigen mit Nina in eine ebenso interessante wie intensive Diskussion darüber ein. Der zweite Teil beleuchtet am Beispiel von Drohnen die Bemühungen zahlreicher Militärs weltweit - inklusive der Bundeswehr - Luftverteidigungssysteme für die Nahdistanz zu entwickeln (Laser for short range air defense!? PEW PEW PEW!). Abschließend wie immer der “Sicherheitshinweis”, der kurze Fingerzeig auf aktuelle, sicherheitspolitisch einschlägige Themen und Entwicklungen - diesmal mit der neuen Strategie Deutschlands für den indo-pazifischen Raum, dem Abtritt des japanischen Premiers Abe, der Covidifizierung der VN-Rüstungskontrolle und dem Gezerre um neuen Korvetten für die Marine. Feministische Außenpolitik: 00:01:37 SHORAD Flugabwehr : 00:45:02 Sicherheitshinweise: 01:12:29 Web: https://sicherheitspod.de/ Shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.de/sicherheitshalbershop Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sicherheitspod Erwähnte Literatur: (Langfassung auf: www.sicherheitspod.de) Thema 1 - Feministische Außenpolitik Nina Bernarding, Ko-Direktorin des Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. Twitter: @NinaBernarding Web: https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/ Alisha Haridasani Gupta, What Do Sweden and Mexico Have in Common? A Feminist Foreign Policy. New York Times, 21 July 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/sweden-feminist-foreign-policy.html Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Feministische Außenpolitik: Dossier, https://www.boell.de/de/feministische-aussenpolitik Valerie M. Hudson, 2014, Sex and World Peace, Columbia University Press. Cynthia Enloe, 2014, Bananas, Beaches and Bases, University of California Press. Mary Hartman, 2004, The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past, Cambridge University Press. Thema 2 - “Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD)” Ulrike Franke, Mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schiessen? Warum die Drohnenbekämpfung so schwierig ist, Neue Züricher Zeitung, March 2019 https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/drohnen-warum-ihre-bekaempfung-so-schwierig-ist-ld.1458904?fbclid=IwAR3odSmk4um1c2xxrsCiTVsjssYCAN__yfa9hL4PQTpWYIXb7urc2KWnPoc Ulrike Franke, We are woefully unprepared to counter people flying drones with malicious intent, The Guardian, Dec 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/23/we-are-woefully-uprepared-to-counter-people-flying-drones-with-malicious-intent “Counter-Drone Systems: 2nd Edition”, Center for the Study of the Drone, December 2019 https://dronecenter.bard.edu/projects/counter-drone-systems-project/counter-drone-systems-2nd-edition/ Bundeswehr beschafft Drohnenabwehrsystem von Kongsberg, Augen geradeaus!, 4.12.2019 https://augengeradeaus.net/2019/12/bundeswehr-beschafft-drohnenabwehrsystem-von-kongsberg/ Dietmar Klos, Schutz von Operationen des Heeres gegen Luftbedrohungen, Europäische Sicherheit & Technik, 08/2020 Leopold Reiter, Luftverteidigungssystem Nah- und Nächstbereichsschutz, Europäische Sicherheit & Technik, 11/2019 Sicherheitshinweise Carlo: Indo-Pazifik Strategie der Bundesregierung https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aussenpolitik/regionaleschwerpunkte/asien/german-government-policy-guidelines-indo-pacific/2380510 Frank: Die Covidifizierung der VN-Rüstungskontroll-Gespräche (Quelle: Franks Nähkästchen) Rike: Japanischer Premier Abe tritt ab https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53950704 Thomas: Neue Korvette für die Marine? Kl. Anfr. FDP-Fraktion, BT-Drucksache 19/21559 https://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/19/215/1921559.pdf Antw. BT-Drucksache 19/21854 (noch nicht veröffentlicht)

Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 99:19


Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen's new book The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide (Columbia University Press, 2020) is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. Incorporating research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women around the globe, the book shows that female subordination functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society's choice to subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political structures that subordinate women, history—and the data—reveal possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence, explaining what the international community can do now to promote more equitable relations between men and women and, thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers, historians, and advocates for women worldwide. Beth Windisch is a national security practitioner. You can tweet her @bethwindisch.

New Books in Sociology
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)

New Books in Sociology

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 99:19


Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen's new book The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide (Columbia University Press, 2020) is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. Incorporating research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women around the globe, the book shows that female subordination functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society’s choice to subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political structures that subordinate women, history—and the data—reveal possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence, explaining what the international community can do now to promote more equitable relations between men and women and, thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers, historians, and advocates for women worldwide. Beth Windisch is a national security practitioner. You can tweet her @bethwindisch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Political Science
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)

New Books in Political Science

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 99:19


Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen's new book The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide (Columbia University Press, 2020) is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. Incorporating research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women around the globe, the book shows that female subordination functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society’s choice to subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political structures that subordinate women, history—and the data—reveal possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence, explaining what the international community can do now to promote more equitable relations between men and women and, thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers, historians, and advocates for women worldwide. Beth Windisch is a national security practitioner. You can tweet her @bethwindisch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in National Security
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)

New Books in National Security

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 99:19


Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen's new book The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide (Columbia University Press, 2020) is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. Incorporating research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women around the globe, the book shows that female subordination functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society’s choice to subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political structures that subordinate women, history—and the data—reveal possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence, explaining what the international community can do now to promote more equitable relations between men and women and, thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers, historians, and advocates for women worldwide. Beth Windisch is a national security practitioner. You can tweet her @bethwindisch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Gender Studies
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)

New Books in Gender Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 99:19


Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen's new book The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide (Columbia University Press, 2020) is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. Incorporating research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women around the globe, the book shows that female subordination functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society’s choice to subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political structures that subordinate women, history—and the data—reveal possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence, explaining what the international community can do now to promote more equitable relations between men and women and, thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers, historians, and advocates for women worldwide. Beth Windisch is a national security practitioner. You can tweet her @bethwindisch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Critical Theory
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)

New Books in Critical Theory

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 99:19


Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen's new book The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide (Columbia University Press, 2020) is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. Incorporating research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women around the globe, the book shows that female subordination functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society’s choice to subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political structures that subordinate women, history—and the data—reveal possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence, explaining what the international community can do now to promote more equitable relations between men and women and, thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers, historians, and advocates for women worldwide. Beth Windisch is a national security practitioner. You can tweet her @bethwindisch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Australia in the World
Ep. 15: Towards reinvigorating Australian foreign policy studies (LIVE @ ANU)

Australia in the World

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2019 72:12


We are delighted to bring you a special edition of the podcast, a recording of a live event at which Allan Gygnell moderated a panel discussion on the topic: “Towards reinvigorating Australian foreign policy studies”. The 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper highlighted how forces of change are challenging the rules-based global order upon which Australia’s security and prosperity has depended since the Second World War. At this moment of uncertainty in Australian foreign policy, how well-equipped are Australian academics to contribute to navigating a way forward? Asking this question invites reflection on the state of foreign policy studies in Australia as well as the extent to which the study and practice of foreign policy are (or could, or even should be) connected. The Panel was comprised of three very distinguished guests: Professor Valerie M. Hudson, the ANU Vice Chancellor’s “Australia in the World” Visiting Fellow and Professor and George H.W. Bush Chair in the Department of International Affairs of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow at the ANU Australian Studies Institute and former chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times; and Professor Jacqui True, Professor of Politics & International Relations and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Monash University. The event was held on Thursday 14 March 2019 on campus at the Australian National University, in partnership with the ANU Australian Studies Institute and the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. It was the concluding event of a day-long conference on the topic of Australian Foreign Policy Studies chaired by Professor Hudson and Professor Michael Wesley, Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific (from whom you will also hear from on the podcast). Our thanks go to Martyn Pearce of the Crawford School for his production and editing support. Relevant links Event page: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/cap-events/2019-03-14/towards-reinvigorating-australian-foreign-policy-studies Valerie’s bio: http://www.vmrhudson.org/ Mark’s bio: http://ausi.anu.edu.au/people/mark-kenny Jacqui’s bio: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/jacqui-true