Hoda Mahmoudi is Research Professor and has held the Bahá'í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, since 2012. As director of this endowed academic program, she collaborates with a wide range of scholars, researchers, and practitioners to advance interdisciplinary analysis and open discourse on global peace.

Jane L. Parpart is Emeritus Professor and former Lester Pearson Chair in International Development at Dalhousie University, Canada; and Adjunct Research Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Carleton University, Canada, the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies Department at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She specializes in gender analysis, class implications, and the importance of thinking about both gender and class with a global perspective.

Kate Seaman is Assistant Director of the Bahá'í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, USA. Her research interests include the concept of state responsibility, United Nations peacekeeping operations, global security governance, the ethics of inter- national interventions, and the development of the responsibility to protect.

Foreword Introduction: Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace 1. Historical Antecedents: African American Women's Enduring Commitment to an Intersectional Peace 2. Chicanas and Latinas in the Academic Borderlands: Resistance, Empowerment, and Agency 3. Interrogating the Image of the '21st Century Woman' 4. Does Corporate Social Responsibility Matter to Gender Inequality During Times of Crisis? 5. The Untapped Potential of the Human Security Paradigm for Indian Women Construction Workers: The Gender, Agency, Human Security Nexus 6. What Blocks Equality for Women? Recollections from a Feminist Life 7. Shifting Perceptions of Women in the World: The Implications of Place, Space, and Time 8. Exploring the Power of Silence, Voice and the In-between in a Troubled World 9. Paradise Lost, Paradigm Found? Revisiting Assumptions for a New Paradigm for Women in the World Conclusion: Women and the Potential for New Paradigms for Peace

Women and Inequality in a Changing World explores the obstacles women continue to face to their equal participation in all areas of daily life - political, social, and economic - which persist despite the growth in the education of girls, large scale social movements, and political waves.