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Dr. Jude Browne PhD

The Jessica and Peter Frankopan Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies

Fellow in Social Sciences and Director of Studies for Geography, King's College

Research

Key Words: gender, sex segregation, political and social theories of equality, structural injustice and rights in modern economies.

My research, both empirical and theoretical, focuses primarily on issues of gender inequality, structural injustice and rights. Recent work has scrutinized critically the explanatory power and prescriptive claims of prominent accounts of gender inequality in several different disciplines. These range from various quantitative metrics of gender inequality as well as sociological, psychological and economic causal theories from the social sciences, through to bio-physiological accounts of gender difference in the natural sciences, through to the more abstract accounts of political philosophy. In relation to these accounts of inequality, I analyse potential mechanisms available for the enforcement of social rights in both national and international settings.

Publications

Books

Sex Segregation and Inequality in the Modern Labour Market The Future of Gender Dialogue Politics and Gender

Browne, J. (2006),
Sex Segregation and Inequality in the Modern
Labour Market.
The Policy Press.

Browne, J. (ed.) (2007),
The Future of Gender.
Cambridge University Press.

Browne, J. (ed.) forthcoming, Dialogue, Politics and Gender.
 Cambridge University Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • Browne, J. (in press) 'The Critical Mass Marker Approach: Female Quotas and Social Justice', Political Studies. Official Journal of the Political Studies Association (PSA)
  • Browne, J. (in press) 'The Default Model: Gender Equality, Fatherhood, and Structural Constraint', Politics & Gender. Official Journal of the American Political Sciences Association (APSA).
  • Browne, J. (in press). 'Dialogue, Politics and Gender - an introduction' in Dialogue, Politics and Gender in J Browne (ed). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Browne, J., and Morales, H. (2010) (eds.) 'Gender Controversies' Constellations, Vol. 17, No. 3. pp.504-548.
  • Browne, J. (2007) Introduction in J. Browne (ed) The Future of Gender. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. pp.1-15.
  • Browne, J. (2007). 'The Equal Treatment Principle and Gender' in J. Browne (ed.), The Future of Gender. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. pp. 250-279.
  • Browne, J. (2006). 'Gender Inequality'; 'Segregation'; 'Corporate Ethics,' in M. Bevir (ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Governance. London: Sage.
  • Browne, J. and Stears, M. (2005). 'Capabilities, Resources, and Systematic Injustice: a case of gender inequality' Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 355-373.
  • Browne, J., Deakin, S. and Wilkinson, F. (2005). 'Capabilities, Social Rights and European Market Integration' in R. Salais and R. Villeneuve (eds.), Europe and the Politics of Capabilities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 205-221.
  • Browne, J. (2004). 'Resolving Gender Pay Inequality? Rationales, Enforcement and Policy' Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 553- 571.
  • Browne, J. with Deakin, S. (2003). 'Social Rights and Market Order: Adapting the Capability Approach' in T. Hervey and J. Kenner (eds.), Economic and Social Rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: A Legal Perspective. Oxford: Hart. pp. 27- 44.
  • Browne, J., with Lane, C., Wilkinson, F., Littek, W., Heisig, U., Burchell, B., Mankelow, R., and Potton, M. (2003). The Future of Professionalised Work in Britain and Germany: V 1. An International Report on Human Resource Managers and Business Consultants. London: Anglo-German Fund.
  • Browne, J., with Lane, C., Wilkinson, F., Littek, W., Heisig, U., Burchell, B., Mankelow, R., and Potton, M. (2003). The Future of Professionalised Work in Britain and Germany: V 2. An International Report on Solicitors and Advocates. London: Anglo-German Fund.
  • Browne, J., with Lane, C., Wilkinson, F., Littek, W., Heisig, U., Burchell, B., Mankelow, R., and Potton, M. (2003). The Future of Professionalised Work in Britain and Germany: V 3. An International Report on Pharmacists. London: Anglo-German Fund.
  • Browne, J., with Lane, C., Wilkinson, F., Littek, W., Heisig, U., Burchell, B., Mankelow, R., and Potton, M. (2003). The Future of Professionalised Work in Britain and Germany: V 4. An International Report on Counselling Psychologists and Psychotherapists. London: Anglo-German Fund.
  • Browne, J., (2002) Gender pay inequity: a question for corporate social responsibility? No.251, ESRC CBR WPS pp.1-19.
  • Browne, J., with Blackburn, R., and Brookes, B., Jarman, J. (2002). 'Explaining Gender Segregation' British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 513-536.