CCTs are a social policy that abides by market logic that underscores self-help and co-responsibility of state and households. However, there is little evidence that human capital promotion results...Show moreCCTs are a social policy that abides by market logic that underscores self-help and co-responsibility of state and households. However, there is little evidence that human capital promotion results in poverty alleviation. Firstly, because both the quantity and the quality of supply of social services falls short in Latin America. This is particularly the case for poor and hard to reach areas. Nevertheless, governments remain reluctant to invest in social infrastructure due to restricted budgets and political orientation. This creates extra costs and burdens for participants. Secondly, because CCTs have limited concern for gender in its policy design due to male-centered notions of well-being and agency. This tends to reproduce traditional gender roles and complementary intra-household inequalities since women are responsible for the children, working for income and in the home. Thirdly, because CCTs are unjustly perceived as cost-effective due to targeting mechanisms. Targeting is inherently discriminatory and is must follow a simplified perspectives of poverty in order to work. This however, disregards multidimensional aspects of poverty. This indicates that there is room for future study on societal interventions to combat gender inequality while simultaneously reduce structural and inter-generational poverty.Therefore, the research question focus on: How do large scale CCTs affect social inclusive development in Latin America from a feminist perspective?Show less
This study aims to analyze gender bias in six Spanish museums, covering the Paleolithic epoch. For this purpose, images and texts have been sampled. In the images, the sex, position in the image,...Show moreThis study aims to analyze gender bias in six Spanish museums, covering the Paleolithic epoch. For this purpose, images and texts have been sampled. In the images, the sex, position in the image, activeness/passiveness, the posture, the placement regarding the settlement and the activities carried out by each individual have been identified. The analysis of texts covers the language used and the main topic addressed in each text. It is compared with a travelling exhibition called “Evolución en clave de género” (“Evolution in a gender perspective”), which was created precisely for challenging the more traditional view of the Paleolithic. In museum images, men are generally overrepresented, while specially women and elderly are underrepresented and the activities associated with them overlooked. In texts, men and their activities are considerably privileged. Afterwards, the result of a literature research of the archaeological and ethnographic evidence for contesting the conveyed view is provided. It shows that an alternative, less androcentric, view is possible. It is an attempt to show how feminist archaeology can challenge, not only traditional and popular beliefs but also assumptions made by the mainstream archaeology. Once the bias has been identified, the significance of this study lies in the possibility that museums offer to either solve or reinforce current gender relations and stereotypes. Moreover, it adds the analysis of texts, a very telling but unexploited field.Show less
