Recommended reading
- Trade and gender: opportunities and challenges for developing countries
- ( A. Tran-Nguyen; A. Beviglia Zampetti / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development , 2004)
- This report, produced by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Gender and Trade, looks at policy measures to promote gender equality in international trade relations and ensure a more equitable distribution ...
- Trade, skills and persistence of gender gap: a theoretical framework for policy discussion
- ( R. Vijaya / International Gender and Trade Network , 2003)
- This discussion paper criticises economic models which suggest that greater trade openness eventually leads to improvements in quality of life for all, and argues that the trade-related gains for wome...
- Trade liberalisation policy
- ( International Labour Organization , 2003)
- This briefing note focuses on the specific ways in which current trade liberalisation policy affects women and men differently. Through a selective review of current practices and policies, it tries t...
- Globalisation, labour standards and women’s rights: dilemmas of collective action in an interdependent world
- ( N. Kabeer / Gapresearch.org, IDS , 2002)
- Following misconceptions and negative portrayals of women garment workers by anti-sweatshop campaigners, this paper explores how these jobs appear from the workers perspective and what the campaign...
- Trading away our rights: women working in global supply chains
- ( K. Raworth / Oxfam , 2004)
- While much research has focused on the content of labour codes of conduct and how suppliers meet them, this paper argues that in practice it is the supply-chain purchasing practices of the large compa...
