Gender

Reporting from the Commission on Status of Women and Global Forum for Women

Our Gender team report from a cold and snowy New York as thousands of women, and a few men, gather to review links between the MDGs and the Beijing Platform for Action and discuss the shape of the new UN Women's Agency that has been approved by the UN.

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Do cash transfers reduce gender conflicts within households?: ( R Slater;M Mphale / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2008); This paper reviews the World Vision's 'Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project' in Lesotho, focusing on the impact of cash transfers on gender relations. The paper highlights the concerns that cash tran...
Do cash transfers continue poor women’s second-class citizenship status?: ( M. Molyneux / Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC , 2008); Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school and health clinics. This paper a...
A review of Norway's Gender Action Plan: ( B. Aasen;S.B. Hellevik;D.C. Lier / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2009); This paper investigates to what extent Norway has contributed to development results for women’s rights and gender equality in selected partner countries. The paper indicates that the marker on ...
The role of marriage, education and mother tongue in obtaining land rights for women: ( D.O. Fuentes;H. Wiig / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2009); This report explores Peruvian land formalisation law, arguing that it is gender neutral. The paper examines land ownership in Peru from a gender perspective, and introduces the following findings:...
Increasing a gender perspective in small arms control: ( C. Buchanan;V. Farr;M. Flood / Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland , 2010); This article, 'Women, men and gun violence: options for action', forms part of a larger publication on directions for the reduction of small arms control. In this piece the authors emphas...
Empowering Maasai women in Tanzania: ( Maanda Ngoitiko / , 2010); Maasai women are among the poorest and most marginalised groups in Tanzanian society. A local women-led organisation – the Pastoral Women’s Council – works to improve the lives of...
The proportion of older persons in the world will double by 2050: ( Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations , 2009); This report provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes a series of indicators of the ageing process by development regions, major areas, regions and countries. This edit...
The importance of day care services in terms of gender-equal practices: ( Project on Population Ageing, Economic Commission for Europe , 2009); Elderly women outnumber elderly men in all countries of the UNECE region. They are more likely to live in poverty, be affected by disability and restrictions of mobility. Many elderly women are widows...
ICT and gender in Bangladesh: ( Development Research Network , 2009); ‘Digital Bangladesh’ became a key issue in the last election as the benefits of ICT became more well known. At the same time as this growing interest, Bangladesh was and still is in a time...
Armed violence: counting the cost: ( United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees , 2008); The report brings into focus the wide ranging costs of war and crime on development and seeks to provide a solid evidence base to shape effective policy, programming, and advocacy to prevent and re...