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    Gender Equality and the Extension of Social Protection

    International Labour Organization, 2003
    There is overwhelming evidence that women occupy a disadvantaged status in relation to work opportunities when compared to men from equivalent social groups. Underpinning this is the unequal division of domestic and care work between men and women, which constrains women from taking up or remaining in full-time employment.
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    Fundamentalisms, Globalisation and Women's Human Rights in Senegal

    2003
    What are the connections between fundamentalism, globalisation and women's human rights in Senegal? This article, originally a presentation given at an Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) forum, argues that it is crucial to understand the complex connections between fundamentalism, globalisation and women's human rights if women are to obtain and retain equal rights with men.
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    Masculinities, Power and the Epidemic: Messages of Social Research

    BRIDGE, 2007
    What has been learnt about masculinities since the ?ethnographic moment? in masculinity research in the 1980s? We now know there is no single version of masculinity, for example. Rather, constructions of masculinity differ from one culture to another and from one historical moment to another.
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    SexPolitics: reports from the front lines

    Sexuality Policy Watch, 2008
    How and why are gender and sexuality being used in political power struggles within and across countries and institutions? This question was at the heart of a project launched by Sexuality Policy Watch in 2004 - a transnational, cross-cultural research initiative seeking to capture the dynamics of contemporary sexual politics.
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    Thoughts on Dignity

    BRIDGE, 2007
    If we are to advance and make real the vision of a world in which human beings enjoy all their human rights in peace, we need to consider the utility of the concept of 'dignity'. This essay discusses the possibility that the concept of 'dignity' may help in advancing a holistic approach to theory and practice meant for inspiring peace and equity.
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    Marriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy: Reconfiguration of Personal and Economic Life

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    How are women and men dealing with the 'feminisation' of the global labour force in the face of the widespread prevalence of male 'breadwinner' ideologies and the apparent threat to male authority represented by women's earnings?
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    Webpage: Young women in the new world of work: good jobs for our futures

    2005
    Because of the increasingly global nature of manufacture and trade and the restructuring of national economies, the work undertaken by young women today is decidedly different from that of the previous generation. Young women work as wage earners in factories, as salaried professionals in offices, as part-time workers in the formal economy, and selling goods and services in the informal economy.
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    Decent Work? The Cambodian Garment Industry

    One World Action, 2007
    Has the garment industry in Cambodia led to the creation of decent work for women?
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    Globalisation, Labor Standards and Women's Rights: Dilemmas of Collective (In)action in an Interdependent World

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2004
    In the context of trade liberalisation and the deregulation of the labour market, there has been an emergence of a northern-based alliance demanding that certain minimum labour standards be observed by all multinationals. This paper questions the view that globally enforced labour standards are in the interests of workers everywhere.
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    Asia-Latina Women's Exchange: Mapping the Impacts of the Quota Phase-out on Workers' Lives

    Maquila Solidarity Network, 2005
    Until January 2005 countries' garment and textile industries were restricted under the global Multifibre Trade Agreement which imposed quotas on exports as a way to enable growth of these industries in less developed countries. As part of the Agreement, this quota system was gradually phased out.

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