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Counting Matters

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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780774870177
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
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  • Pages: 304
  • Original Price: USD 37.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 458 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Public Policy / Social Policy

Examines how the rise of gender equality measurement contributes to, but falls short of, effective gender equality policy implementation.

As technocrats adopt often contextless indices, questions of the theoretical and practical limitations of measurement arise, especially as they pertain to social and cultural relations. The indicators being produced influence the allocation of resources as political decisions but are themselves part of a power regime based on the collection and analysis of data, a regime that obfuscates biases and the agendas behind the statistics.

Counting Matters questions the ways in which measurement culture manifests within the field of gender equality. The contributors ask how it is measured in different policy areas, how we might improve existing practices, and what is revealed through the examination and critique of the "technical turn" in policies that purport to promote gender equality.

Gabriel, Christina: - Christina Gabriel is professor of political science at Carleton University. She is the coauthor of Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century and Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization. She also coedited Governing International Labour Migration: Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas.

Rankin, L. Pauline: - L. Pauline Rankin is professor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, and provost and vice president (academic) at Carleton University. She coedited We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles and is coauthor of Politics as If Women Mattered: A Political Analysis of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.

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