Book Discussion: Women and Inequality in a Changing World
This event features two of the contributors to the recent volume "Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace," Dr Tiffani Betts Razavi and Dr Kate Seaman. The discussion will explore the questions raised in the volume around 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. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Hoda Mahmoudi, one of the editors of the volume.
Speaker Name/Title/Affiliation:
Dr Tiffani Betts Razavi
Dr. Tiffani Betts Razavi is a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Maryland (USA) Bahá’í Chair for World Peace. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford (UK) and has lectured in psychology, research methods, and organizational behavior at the University of Southampton (UK). She has also coordinated action research for curriculum development for a global Bahá’í community-based spiritual and moral education program. Her research and writing explore human values in education and the workplace, integrative approaches to peace, social change, gender equality and education, and Bahá’í perspectives on these themes. She has recently published in the Journal of Peace Education, Springer Nature Social Sciences, and Peace & Change, as well as the edited volumes Transglobal Humanities: Meeting the Moment, Global Climate Crisis: Seeking Environmental Justice and Climate Equality, and the subject of today’s discussion, Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace.
Dr Kate Seaman
Kate Seaman, Ph.D. is Assistant Director of The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland. Dr. Seaman previously held positions at the University of Baltimore, the University of Bath and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Dr. Seaman received her Ph.D. from Lancaster University. She is the author of UN-tied Nations; The UN, Peacekeeping and the development of global security governance (Ashgate, 2014). Dr. Seaman is the co-editor of The Changing Ethos of Human Rights (Elgar, 2021), co-editor of Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), co-editor of Infrastructure, Wellbeing, and the Measurement of Happiness (Routledge, 2023), co-editor of Women and Inequality in a Changing World (Routledge, 2023), and co-editor of Global Climate Crisis: Seeking Environmental Justice and Climate Equality (Elgar, 2025). Her research has also been published in the journals Global Governance, and Politics and Governance.
Moderator:
Professor Hoda Mahmoudi
Hoda Mahmoudi has held The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park since 2012. As director of this endowed academic program, Professor Mahmoudi collaborates with a wide range of scholars, researchers, and practitioners to advance interdisciplinary analysis and open discourse on global peace. Before joining the University of Maryland faculty, Professor Mahmoudi served as the coordinator of the Research Department at the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa, Israel. Prior to that, Dr. Mahmoudi was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern Illinois University, where she was also a faculty member in the Department of Sociology. Professor Mahmoudi’s most recent book is, Dr. Susan I. Moody's Travels to Iran, 1909-1934: Courageous Odyssey (Routledge, 2024). She is also co-author of A World Without War (Bahá’í Publishing, 2020), co-editor of Global Climate Crisis: Seeking Environmental Justice and Climate Equality (Elgar, 2025), co-editor of Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace (Forthcoming, Routledge, 2023), co-editor of Infrastructure, Wellbeing, and the Measurement of Happiness (Routledge, 2022), co-editor of Fundamental Challenges to Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and co-editor of Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change (Routledge, 2022). Professor Mahmoudi is also co-editor of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights (Emerald, 2019), of The Changing Ethos of Human Rights (Elgar, 2021), and of Children and Globalization; Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2019).
This event is sponsored by BSOS