Social Justice and Gender

Gender representation and social justice: Ideology, methodology and smoke-screens

A number of researchers have provided an overview of the progress of research focusing on gender and educational leadership/management in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Bjork, 2000; Blackmore, 2006; Shakeshaft, 1993, 1999; Tallerico & Blount, 2004; Zheng, 1999). Shakeshaft (1999 p. 522) casts descriptive studies of representation generally ‘documenting the absence of women’ as an ear...

Reproductive Genetics and Gender Justice

In recent years, the use of gender neutral-terminology has become commonplace. At times, the practice is awkward, as when a writer or speaker avoids generic terms that are also used exclusively for males. "Human" or "person" then replaces "man," and "he or she" is often used instead of merely "he." Despite the awkwardness, this practice may have the positive effect of reminding readers or liste...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Engineering and Social Justice

Health and social justice.

Theories of social justice applied to health care have typically focused on justifying health care (medicine and public health) as a special social good. Rationalizing greater equality in health care is typically the point of departure for most approaches to medical ethics, even those that include health assessment. In general, these approaches have paid relatively little attention to universal...