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• W27975892 abstract "This presentation focuses on 'difference' and the ways in which the notion of difference has shaped so much of our understandings of the world and ourselves. The fact that we have a lecture series in the 21st Century dedicated to women is, to my mind, an outcome of the insidious nature of difference and the practice of the politics of difference that, working together, not only separate persons into different groups, different categories, but, more significantly, attach to that difference a value, a pyramid of privilege such that every 'different to' becomes the basis of a 'better than'. Had we understood 'difference' in a different way, perhaps, then our histories would have been differently recorded, our situation as examples of God's glorious and varied creation would have been differently presented and experienced. Outstanding Caribbean women might, then, have been included and described in the category of outstanding contributors to the Trade Union movement in the Caribbean. I shall approach this task by first looking at some of the ideologies and philosophy that attend difference. I shall then look at some of the serious outcomes of difference using the education sector and the Caribbean labour movement for examples. I am looking at the education sector because in its project of socialising children into society's ideologies it should allow us to see how some of the outcomes we complain about in the workplace and wider society are developed. Then I shall look at the challenges we face as a region in respect of developing a labour force that is efficient, offers ample opportunity for the best people to be employed by virtue of their skills and is protected by strong regulatory controls. So now, to difference. The French have been associated with the saying Vive la difference!, a celebration of the differences between men and women. Maybe that celebration requires some rethinking or at least some re-defining of 'la difference'. Anthropologist, Michael Kimmel (2000) asks the pointed question: [W]hy is it that virtually every society on earth differentiates people on the basis of gender? In other words, as Kimmel himself rephrases the question: [W]hy are men and women perceived as different in every known society? The second question Kimmel poses is: [W]hy is it that virtually every society is founded on the notion and practice of male dominance? The question is rephrased as [W] hat are the differences that are perceived between men and women? Why is gender one of, if not the (author's emphasis) central basis for the division of labour? Having asked those two questions we are clearly recognizing that gender, the system that assigns roles, responsibilities and entitlements to persons based on society's interpretation of their anatomies, is only one of the differences between and amongst people. The system that hierarchically orders the status of men and women produces differential outcomes for them based on the interpretation of biological difference. Gender is, however, only one of the binary pairs that have been fundamental to our way of thinking and reasoning, to the building of our knowledge systems. These binary differences between white and black, good and bad, innocent and guilty, between man and woman, coloniser and colonised seem, at face value, to be just difference but white has not been equal to black for many centuries of human history and there seems a world of difference separating the colonizer from the colonized. Men and women, we think, do not come from the same place and, eternally, are doomed to inhabit separate spheres. Hence, according to John Gray ( cited in Kimmel, 2000), 'Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus.' The characteristics associated with Mars and Venus are different and are unequally ranked. Therein lies the problem with the way difference in our world is used. Difference then is part of the way we construct our identities: how we self-identify and in turn, identify ourselves and others. …" @default.
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• W27975892 title "Forever Indebted to Women: In Spite of the Difference" @default.
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