Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation

The Affect of Gender Inequality on Women Social Participation

This research was conducted to study the effect of gender inequality on social participation of women. The method used in this research was Ex-Post Facto and survey method. The statistical population included female students in different fields of faculty of humanities and faculty of training sciences and psychology (Islamic Azad University) Garmsar Branch in 2012-2013. Research instruments inc...

The Impact of Gender Inequality in Education on Females’ Labor Force Participation: A Case of Some Cities of Pakistan

The purpose of this study was to estimate the effect of gender inequality in education on females’ labor force participation in 14 major cities (rapidly urbanizing areas) of Pakistan after taking into account the socio-economic indicators like the marital status of female, the gender of the head of household, physical facilities, the median income of the household, etc. Data were gathered from ...

TownHall: a Secure, Deliberative e-Participation System

The potential of e-Participation mechanisms has significantly evolved over time. However, with governments, political parties, corporations, and mass-media controlling the communication channels, citizens who deliberate through e-Participation may have to contend with bias, censorship, and even eavesdropping. TownHall is intended to help manage this burden. As a platform-independent, peer-to-pe...

Deliberative public participation and hexachlorobenzene stockpiles.

This paper is concerned with the quality of citizen involvement in relation to the governance of industrial risks. Specifically, it explores the hexachlorobenzene (HCB) case relative to best practice public participation, which is consistent with deliberative democratic theory. The case could be judged a public participation failure given that the community committee in combination with the cor...

Gender Inequality in Europe