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  Promoting Gender Equality. A Resource Kit for Trade Unions

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This toolkit has been designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members and ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals . Trade unions have a role in protecting workers from all types of discrimination, including that based on gender.
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  Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA) Social Impact Monitoring Framework

  2005

  Pacific countries are increasingly participating in various trade agreements, both regional and international. To date, the potential social/gender impacts of these trade agreements have not been significantly factored into trade negotiations, nor closely monitored.
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  Trade Impact Review

  2002

  This tool provides an extensive overview of the literature and frameworks to analyse gender-differentiated impacts of new trade and investment agreements undertaken by the United States (US) prior to their negotiation and signing. A framework is then proposed that accounts for both the economic as well as legal effects of trade agreements on women and men.
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  Gender and Trade Indicators

  2002

  This Women in Development Europe (WIDE) information sheet - aimed at governments, trade policy makers, the WTO and academic researchers - is designed to assist efforts to measure and monitor the relationship between trade and gender. This tool consists of three sets of indicators, which can be applied to an analysis of any trading relationship between countries or trade blocks.
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  International Trade in Women's Agendas

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  What strategies could be used in gender and trade advocacy? Trade agreements are generally formulated and decided by governments without any input from civil society. Increasingly, though, civil society organisations have been involved in protests against international and regional free trade agreements that are not sustainable, and that are working against gender equality.
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  Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2000

  Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.
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  Women, the State and Labour Rights Activism: The Role of Women's Organisations in Improving Labour Standards in Nicaragua

  Central American Women’s Network, 2005

  Maria Elena Cuadra (MEC) is an NGO set up in 1994 by leaders of the Women's Secretariat of the Sandinista Workers' Central (CST) trade union in Nicaragua. MEC was established in the light of the failure of the union to take women's concerns into account. As MEC is an NGO not a union, they were initially excluded from formal labour negotiations.
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  Gender Impacts of Trade Policies in Latin America: Progress and Challenges for Research and Action

  2003

  What has been the impact of civil society on the formulation and implementation of trade agreements in the Americas? This paper offers an overview of gender and trade research - including on employment, gender segregation in the labour market, salary gaps, and the impact of trade on productive and reproductive spheres.
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  Fair Trade: Gender Makes the Difference

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  Fair trade is crucial for sustainable development. It provides better trading conditions to marginalised producers and workers, particularly women. This short briefing note outlines the importance of ensuring that fair trade initiatives incorporate a gender perspective.
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  Enhancing Women Entrepreneurship Through Export Growth - Issues and Solutions

  International Trade Centre, 2004

  Why are many women involved in local entrepreneurship activities yet very few involved in the export sector? Given the number of enterprises headed by women and their contribution to national economies, the capacity of women to contribute to economic growth is not being maximised.

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