Gender
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Women and Leadership
As a given, in no country do women participate in political leadership on a par with men. This collection of writings explores women's own strategies for developing or initiating leadership by women around the world. Women have created thousands of vibrant, visionary organisations of their own, yet...
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Gender in the 21st Century
From the perspective of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the 21st century. Despite some successes women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education...
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Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development
Based on research commissioned by the World Bank, this books primary focus is on incorporating men in gender and development interventions at the grass roots level. It draws attention to some of the key problems that have arisen from male exclusion; as well as to the potential benefits of - and obst...
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Ending Violence Against Women
Francine Pickup, Suzanne Williams, Caroline Sweetman
Violence, and women's fear of it, limits women's choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women's physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women's ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships...
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Gender and Lifecycles
This book links gender issues to the life-courses of women and men. Gender-based discrimination is experienced differently according to age, generation, and status in the family. In particular, female children and elderly women perform an enormous amount of the world’s work. endure appalling abuse o...
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Theoretical Perspective on Gender and Development
Jane L. Parpart, Jane L Connelly, Patricia Barriteau
Theoretical Perspective on Gender and Development
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Linegalite des sexes et la révolution de linformation en Afrique
Linegalite des sexes et la révolution de linformation en Afrique
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A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks
This is a single-volume guide to all the main analytical frameworks for gender-sensitive research and planning, based on a pack developed for Oxfam staff and partners. Different frameworks that have been developed are described as well as step-by-step instructions for their use with summaries of the...
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Women Speak
A record of the setbacks and victories of South African women from early local community-level organisation in 1982 up to the challenges of living in the 1990s and being in government in the new South Africa. This book brings together the voices of a variety of women on some of the critical issues o...
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Manual de Formacao em Genero da Oxfam
This comprehensive approach to gender training in development encompasses work on gender awareness-raising and gender analysis at the individual, community and global level. An important reference source for development agency trainers and academics. This is a large, comprehensive manual that acknow...