South Africa and Gender
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Writing from the Inside: Stories of hope and change
- Gender at Work, 2010
- In May 2010, Gender at Work’s Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Strengthening Program hosted a writing workshop with eight organisations in South Africa. These grassroots organisations had participated in an action-learning progr...
- Factoring in gender in African climate change adaptation
- G. Adeniji (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
- Gender often dictates who gains and who loses in environmental disasters: where women lack basic rights, more will die from natural disasters than men; where they enjoy equal rights, the death rate is the same. Global debates therefor...
- Gender equality and social dialogue in South Africa
- International Labour Organization, 2011
- This working paper is the South African report for the social dialogue and gender equality research project — coordinated by the Industrial and Employment Relations Department (DIALOGUE) in cooperation with the Bureau for Gender...
- Time use studies and unpaid care work
- D Budlender / Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
- This compilation of writing focuses on unpaid care work, the majority of which is performed by women. Although this work has significant implications for the wellbeing of individuals, households and communities, it has been widely neg...
- More coverage of women's issues lacking in Southern Africa
- C.L. Morna (ed); T. Mpofu; D. Glenwright / Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2010
- This report monitors the relation between gender issues and media content in 14 Southern African countries, providing quantitative, sex-disaggregated data on media coverage and topics. In addition, it examines the underlying gender dy...
- Are rights-based approaches the way forward for conservation?
- J. Campese (ed); T. Greiber (ed); T. Sunderland (ed); G. Oviedo (ed) / Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
- The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can un...
- Understanding feminist movements
- S. Batliwala / Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008
- How can an understanding of feminist movements in the current global context be achieved? This document presents 10 case studies from different regions of the world that have mobilized women to make a difference. Examples co...
- Designing flexible pensions systems to encompass more workers
- Y. Hu; F. Stewart / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
- Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing co...
- Male attitudes to HIV-AIDS and health issues in South Africa
- D. Peacock; J. Redpath; M. Weston / US Agency for International Development, 2008
- Although attitudes are changing, many South Africans of both sexes see men as superior to women and believe that men should dictate many decisions that affect health, including sexual decisions. A growing body of evidence also suggest...
- Gender and rural-urban livelihoods linkages in KwaZulu Natal
- Eldis Document Store, 2005
- How important are rural-urban linkages to livelihoods in KwaZulu Natal? What role do women play in mobile livelihoods arrangements? This report to the Provincial Planning and Development Commission, presents the findings of a study which us...
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