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    Women's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2007
    Women's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean brings to the fore two key drivers in the structural pattern of inequality between women and men: first, political participation and gender parity in decision-making processes at all levels, and, second, women's contribution to the economy and social protection, especially in relation to unpaid work.
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    UNIFEM Afganistan Fact Sheet 2007

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    What is women's situation in Afghanistan in 2007? This factsheet presents key statistics in a number of key areas, including political participation, labour force participation, health, education, marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world, and a low female life expectancy of just 44 years.
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    The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement 'Maria Elena Cuadra' (MEC)

    Maria Elena Cuadra, 2007
    This movement supports women to participate fully and equally in Nicaraguan society by offering a space for reflection, capacity building and organisation. They focus on issues related to women's economic empowerment and labour rights but also work on other related issues like gender-based violence, poverty eradication and the environment.
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    Women and Paid Sick Days: Crucial for Family Well-being

    2007
    More than 22 million working women in the United States (US) lack basic sick days benefits. Moreover, 75 percent of women living in poverty do not get paid when they miss work to care for a sick child. These are just some of the striking statistics presented in this short fact sheet on women in the US and paid sick days.
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    World Bank Gender Stats: Iraq

    World Bank, 2007
    GenderStats is the World Bank's database of country gender statistics. Its pages on Iraq present sex disaggregated figures on size of population, life expectancy at birth, labour force participation, education and health. The web site also features an ?empowerment table?, which monitors the number of women representatives in national and local government in Iraq.
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    New Initiatives in Organizing Strategy in the Informal Economy

    Commitee for Asian Women, 2005
    The unpaid work that women do in the household is often overlooked and invisible, regarded as the natural domain of women and therefore not respected in the same way as waged work done outside the home.
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    From Margins to Mainstream: From Gender Statistics to Engendering Statistical Systems

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    Engendering national statistical systems requires an approach that goes beyond merely disaggregating data from conventional censuses and surveys by sex. This paper argues that this traditional approach is insufficient because the data collection framework and instruments themselves are gender biased.
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    Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy

    Routledge, 2006
    The Human Development Report Office has used both the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) as a means of monitoring international progress in the development of women's capabilities. This paper makes a case for the development of additional indices focused on burdens of financial and temporal responsibility for the care of dependents.
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    Focus. Empowering Women

    United Nations Development Programme, 2005
    The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) supports Palestinian women through a wide range of initiatives - reviewed in this magazine. Training on gender and women's rights and assistance in gender mainstreaming is provided by UNDP to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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    Gender Equality and Child Labour: A Participatory Tool for Facilitators

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    Conventional gender roles place various constraints and opportunities on what women and men are expected to be and do, and this is reflected in the types of child labour that boys and girls take part in.

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