Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691159751
- eISBN:
- 9781400852697
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691159751.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? This book shows how the gender composition and rules of a ...
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Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? This book shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to improve the representation of women will fall short unless they address institutional rules that impede women's voices. Using experimental research supplemented with analysis of school boards, the book demonstrate how the effects of rules depend on women's numbers, so that small numbers are not fatal with a consensus process, but consensus is not always beneficial when there are large numbers of women. Men and women enter deliberative settings facing different expectations about their influence and authority. The book reveals how the wrong institutional rules can exacerbate women's deficit of authority while the right rules can close it, and, in the process, establish more cooperative norms of group behavior and more generous policies for the disadvantaged. Rules and numbers have far-reaching implications for the representation of women and their interests. This book provides important new findings on ways to bring women's voices into the conversation on matters of common concern.Less
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? This book shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to improve the representation of women will fall short unless they address institutional rules that impede women's voices. Using experimental research supplemented with analysis of school boards, the book demonstrate how the effects of rules depend on women's numbers, so that small numbers are not fatal with a consensus process, but consensus is not always beneficial when there are large numbers of women. Men and women enter deliberative settings facing different expectations about their influence and authority. The book reveals how the wrong institutional rules can exacerbate women's deficit of authority while the right rules can close it, and, in the process, establish more cooperative norms of group behavior and more generous policies for the disadvantaged. Rules and numbers have far-reaching implications for the representation of women and their interests. This book provides important new findings on ways to bring women's voices into the conversation on matters of common concern.
Meryl Nadel
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190496548
- eISBN:
- 9780190496579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190496548.003.0003
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Communities and Organizations
“Community, Group, Group Work” continues to explore ideas undergirding social work in summer camps, examining how social science thinking about communities and groups informed both the developing ...
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“Community, Group, Group Work” continues to explore ideas undergirding social work in summer camps, examining how social science thinking about communities and groups informed both the developing profession of social work and the field of organized camping. The chapter discusses the notion of community, suggesting that summer camps be considered intentional communities. The development of such concepts as mutual aid, phases of group development, and group interaction are presented. The emergence of social group work is explored, including its historical background in settlement houses and other organizations, as well as its process of affiliation with the broader social work profession. The contributions of camp group work “pioneers” such as Louis H. Blumenthal are reviewed. By the 1920s and 1930s, Blumenthal and others recognized the many opportunities for growth and development inherent in the group life found in camps.Less
“Community, Group, Group Work” continues to explore ideas undergirding social work in summer camps, examining how social science thinking about communities and groups informed both the developing profession of social work and the field of organized camping. The chapter discusses the notion of community, suggesting that summer camps be considered intentional communities. The development of such concepts as mutual aid, phases of group development, and group interaction are presented. The emergence of social group work is explored, including its historical background in settlement houses and other organizations, as well as its process of affiliation with the broader social work profession. The contributions of camp group work “pioneers” such as Louis H. Blumenthal are reviewed. By the 1920s and 1930s, Blumenthal and others recognized the many opportunities for growth and development inherent in the group life found in camps.
