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Title: Sour grapes or voluntary submission : an Islamic perspective of adaptation and social choice in the context of gender division of labour
Related: International Conference of the Human Development and Capability Association (29 August - 1 September 2006 : Groningen, Netherlands)
Related: Gardiner, Katherine and Deneulin, Severine. International Conference of the Human Development and Capability Association : Equality, Inclusion and Human Development, p.1-16
Related: www.capabilityapproach.com/pubs/6_2_Syed.pdf
Publisher: Groningen, Netherlands : University of Groningen ; HDCA
Date: 2006
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 150305 Human Resources Management 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
Author/Creator: Syed, Jawad
Description: The purpose of this paper is to offer an Islamic perspective of social choice and wellbeing in the context of gender division of labour. The paper argues that instead of confining well-being to physical or material contexts, the concept within Islamic society (and other religious traditions) must be expanded to include well-being in the life hereafter. There is a spiritual beauty in submission to God, which must not be discarded as forced adaptation. A political liberalist solution towards adaptive preferences has the risk of overriding the voluntary choices of (some) women and men, whose religious beliefs and practices may encourage, if not make obligatory, certain kind of gender division of labour. Yet, the fact that patriarchal influences on Islamic thought and practices have historically resulted in social structures that tend to produce and maintain female disadvantage, at least in some dimensions, poses a significant challenge for capability and equal opportunity in Islamic society.
Description: 16 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 150305 Human Resources Management
Subject Keyword: 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
Subject Keyword: adaptation
Subject Keyword: capability approach
Subject Keyword: diversity
Subject Keyword: equal employment opportunity
Subject Keyword: gender
Subject Keyword: Islam
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Business

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/112244
Identifier: mq-rm-2006001554
Language: eng

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