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Trade and gender: opportunities and challenges for developing countries

Promoting gender equality in international trade relations

Authors: A. Tran-Nguyen; A. Beviglia Zampetti
Publisher: United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development , 2004

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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 of the benefits of trade. Concrete approaches are outlined including: ways of influencing the World Trade Organisation (WTO); human rights legal frameworks; competition policies; Gender Trade Impact Assessments; use of information and communications technologies (ICTs); and gender-specific capacity-building.

Recommendations include:

  • focus on raising women's skills to cope with the loss of domestic production and the need to adapt to new markets
  • develop better tools to establish the gendered impacts of trade agreements
  • involve the private sector and civil society to ensure respect for gender equality in the workplace.

Summary written in collaboration with BRIDGE and Siyanda