Modesty, liberty, equality: Negotiations of gendered principles of piety among Muslim women who cover

Liberty, Equality, Religiosity1

In this paper we study the role of religiosity in political choices such as redistribution and individual liberties. To a standard model with consumption and effort, we add a third good: civil liberties with a cap established by law. More liberties, like divorce, abortion, gender parity, or gay marriage, may be considered good by the secular and detrimental by the religious individuals. With st...

Commentary: Liberty, fraternity, equality.

relationship between income inequality and health has been independently discovered several times by people who appeared not to know of each other's work. 1,2 When I first published on the subject 3 I too was unaware of Rodgers' paper 4 until George Davey Smith pointed it out to me. Rodgers introduced an income distribution term into his regressions simply to take account of the well-known curv...

Liberty and Equality in Conflict

Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

Morgan Stanley has been hit, yet again, with a gender discrimination lawsuit. ... The suit comes two years after former Morgan broker Allison Schieffelin was awarded $12 million in her sexual discrimination suit against the firm. ... According to this latest complaint, ... ‘‘Morgan Stanley has engaged in a pattern and practice of gender discrimination with respect to compensation and promoting ...

Psychosocial impact of perinatal loss among Muslim women

BACKGROUND Women of reproductive age are vulnerable to psychosocial problems, but these have remained largely unexplored in Muslim women in developing countries. The aim of this study was to explore and describe psychosocial impact and social support following perinatal loss among Muslim women. METHODS A qualitative study was conducted in a specialist centre among Muslim mothers who had exper...