Each one of us lives life as a carrier of multiple identities - including gender, race, class and age. The sum of these identities determines our opportunities in life, and empowers or disempowers us, depending on our context. This collection of articles focuses on the implications that this has for development goals of poverty alleviation and human rights. In particular, critiques from Southern women challenge development organisations for their inadequate and inappropriate policy and practice. Development programmes have addressed gender inequality as a key concern, but most organisations have yet to understand how other aspects of difference intersect with gender to unite and divide groups of women from each other. Improving development policy and practice means understanding inequality in its complexity, and developing ways of working which acknowledge difference, rather than suppress it. It means practising as we preach, by transforming our own organisational cultures. This entails confronting issues of power and inequality, and challenging racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. Contributors to this issue include Ranjani K Murthy, Everjoice Win, and Dorine Plantenga. Case studies come from India, Zimbabwe, Latin America and the UK.

Caroline Sweetman
Caroline Sweetman is Editor of the international journal Gender & Development and works for Oxfam GB.

How to Develop Diversity Management Competencies in the Private Sector in Saudi Arabia

Alfalih, Abdullah Abdulmohsen

SAGE Open, Vol. 12 (2022), Iss. 2 P.215824402211024

https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221102448 [Citations: 0]

Factors influencing the implementation of diversity management in business organisations in a transition economy. The case of Slovakia

Lančarič, Drahoslav

Chebeň, Juraj

Savov, Radovan

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, Vol. 28 (2015), Iss. 1 P.1162

https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2015.1100837 [Citations: 5]

APPLYING THE CONCEPT OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN ORGANISATIONS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC – A RESEARCH SURVEY

Egerova, Dana

Jiřincova, Milena

Lančarič, Drahoslav

Savov, Radovan

Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Vol. 19 (2013), Iss. 2 P.350

https://doi.org/10.3846/20294913.2013.798598 [Citations: 9]

Legitimacy of Unseen Actors in International Adjudication

Arbitral Institutions’ Response to Perceived Legitimacy Deficits

Polonskaya, Ksenia

2019

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108641685.019 [Citations: 0]

An analysis of western diversity management theories in a Nigerian context

Loliya, Agbani Akobo

Journal of African Studies and Development, Vol. 9 (2017), Iss. 4 P.23

https://doi.org/10.5897/JASD2016.0424 [Citations: 3]