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Gender—A Topic for Social Work and in Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

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Gender is relevant at the interactional, institutional and societal level. Social work can hardly be thought of without addressing the omnipresent cross-sectional topic of gender: a subject studied primarily by women, in which questions are predominantly active and which addresses social issues that occur in a variety of gendered ways, such as phenomena of violence. Gender-based violence, for example, is subject to a clear gender bias. In this article, the significance of gender in social work is first described, then related to the CoBoSUnin binational project and thus classified as a dimension of higher education policy issues. This classification takes into account the relevant gender discourses and gender norms, which in this case are outlined with a focus on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

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Notes

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    International conference, held at the EvH in Bochum from November 2–5, 2015, see also: https://duepublico2.uni-due.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00072446 (Accessed November 11, 20).

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    For example, in the Kurdish parliament in 2010 there was a scuffle between the Ministry of Youth and Education and the Ministry of Religious Affairs over the term ‘gender’, which assessed this term as reprehensible and ‘incitement to immorality’ and therefore demanded it should even be banned. After a negotiation process in the committee for ‘Law and Religious Affairs’ a joint declaration was reached in which ‘gender’ could be used again as a term with reference to appeasing additional definitions (see Ghaderi 2014: 177).

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    Iraq: Act of Combating Domestic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Law No. 8 of 2011), June 21, 2011, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5b2911044.html (accessed November 14, 2020).

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    The By-Law of High Committee of Combating Violence Against Women And Family In Kurdistan Region Governorates of Iraq; https://www.ekrg.org/files/pdf/by-law_highcommittee_combat_violence_against_women_English.pdf (accessed November 15, 2020).

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    For example, an initiative against the draft law that would allow religious courts throughout Iraq to allow girls from the age of nine to marry. See ‘Kurdish activists denounce Iraq’s child marriage bill’ https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/121120174 (accessed November 15, 2020).

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    Gender Equality Center at the University of Sulaimani: https://gec.univsul.edu.iq/home

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    See: https://auis.edu.krd/CGDS/ (accessed November 15, 2020).

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    See: http://www.bris.ac.uk/sps/events/2015/womens-conference-2015.html (accessed November 15, 2020).

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    Cinur Ghaderi

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  3. University of Sulaimani, Sulaimania, Iraq

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  5. University of Sulaimani, Sulaimania, Iraq

    Zhiya Abbas Qader

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    Lisa Marie Dünnebacke

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Ghaderi, C. (2021). Gender—A Topic for Social Work and in Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In: Ghaderi, C., Sonnenberg, K., Saleh Karim, L., Namiq Sabir, N., Abbas Qader, Z., Dünnebacke, L.M. (eds) Social Work at the Level of International Comparison. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30394-5_20

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