Gender studies: women & girls
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Do It Herself
Although women are the majority of small-scale technology users, their technical knowledge and understanding has largely been overlooked. This book investigates the contributions of women to technical innovation at a grassroots level, using 22 case studies of technical innovation by women in 16 coun...
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Women and Conflict
In situations of war or violent conflict, all civilians suffer. However, there are many specific, gender-related human rights issues which organizations involved in relief, development, and emergency work in conflict situations need to address. This book concentrates on gender issues in situations o...
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Women and the Environment
The majority of women in the South have a close and complex relationship to their surroundings. They are profoundly affected by environmental degradation, as they depend directly on natural resources for their livlihoods. Their need for access to these resources often goes unrecognised, as does thei...
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Women and Economic Policy
The Focus on Gender; series makes available in book form the contents of the Oxfam journal Gender and Development. Highlighting practice as well as theory, the thematic series makes the resource available to students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in particular topics. This...
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Gender, Small-scale Industry and Development Policy
Links the gender perspective on small-scale industry which explicitly concentrates on social groups, with economic questions of higher employment and wider distribution of production.
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Financing Women's Enterprise
Thea Hilhorst, Harry Oppenoorth
Emphasises how to improve the access of poor self-employed women to financial services. Includes a review of current knowledge about women's need for finance, how this is presently met and how this could be improved.
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Women and Food Security
Consists of papers on women's access to, and use of, improved food technologies in all areas, and addresses such factors as access to credit and training, involvement in technology and design, infrastructure and markets, and the policy environment. The experiences described have wide application out...
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Women and Food Security
Consists of papers on women's access to, and use of, improved food technologies in all areas, and addresses such factors as access to credit and training, involvement in technology and design, infrastructure and markets, and the policy environment. The experiences described have wide application out...
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Women and the Food Cycle
This collection of articles includes case studies of attempts to improve small-scale food processing, remembering that 'small is beautiful, but difficult'. Case studies cover grain and fruit processing, baking, beekeeping, and small-scale oil production.
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Women and the Food Cycle
This collection of articles includes case studies of attempts to improve small-scale food processing, remembering that 'small is beautiful, but difficult'. Case studies cover grain and fruit processing, baking, beekeeping, and small-scale oil production.