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New Americas Quarterly on Gender Equality to be Released

How have women in the Americas fared in education, labor markets, politics, and the private sector? Americas Quarterly examines this issue in its Summer 2012 edition, due for release on July 26.

Gender Equality: Political Backrooms, Corporate Boardrooms and Classrooms

Gender equality and girls and women’s empowerment have been pushed to the top of domestic and foreign policy agendas in the Americas. The Summer 2012 issue of Americas Quarterly, to be released on Thursday, July 26, looks at how women and girls are faring in education, labor markets, politics, and the private sector, and why—politically, economically, and morally—achieving equality and parity is essential.

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In the Summer 2012 AQ, former president of Chile and UN Women executive director Michelle Bachelet discusses why violence against women is a development issue, and the importance of empowering women economically to break those patterns. U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer writes how and why the State Department has made women and girls’ development a strategic foreign policy objective of the U.S. government. And Joan Caivano and Jane Marcus-Delgado explain how international and local advocacy groups and the courts are changing reproductive rights laws (in both directions) in the hemisphere. The issue also presents a timeline of milestones in women’s achievements, and AQ’s signature “charticle” graphically portrays and compares women’s representation on corporate boards globally and how it increases profits.

Other articles address individual aspects of gender equality. Magda Hinosoja of Arizona State University writes that while election quotas in favor of women have sparked greater representation of women in national legislatures, local levels and party politics remain male bastions. Cedric Herring of the University of Chicago at Illinois describes why women’s participation in business improves profitability and what Latin American companies and governments need to do to catch up.

As always, this issue of AQ also has articles and departments on a variety of other topics. Haiti expert and Partners in Health founder Paul Farmer traces the rise of cholera in the hemisphere and the risk of a new pandemic; Lourdes Melgar muses on the future of PEMEX in the next sexenio; and Matias Spektor analyses the shifting views in Brazil on humanitarian intervention in the wake of Libya and Syria.

Release Date: July 26, 2012

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