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    My Unconventional Wedding

    BRIDGE, 2006
    In China marriage is the norm. Many people get married, including gay men marrying women (straight or not), for reasons of convenience and under social pressure, but also for reasons of pleasure and through choice. However, gay men who marry women are often blamed by the gay community for not being gay enough, or by health authorities for transmitting HIV and endangering society.
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    Towards Political Empowerment for Jordanian Women

    2006
    What are the obstacles to women's political empowerment in Jordan and how should a strategy to address these obstacles be developed? In Jordan women are severely marginalised in terms of political participation.
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    BRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography

    BRIDGE, 2007
    HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.
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    Diversity and Transformation in the South African Police Service: A Study of Police Perspectives on Race, Gender and the Community in the Johannesburg Policing Area

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
    What are the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of South African police officers on race and gender? This report aims to investigate how successfully the South African Police Service (SAPS) has been transformed since 1994 towards its objective of racial and gender equity and representation. It shows some evidence that gender dynamics are changing.
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    Achieving Women's Economic and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from Experience

    2006
    What are the greatest challenges that activists encounter in their efforts to improve economic and social rights for women? This Association of Women in Development (AWID) study, conducted in 2005, aimed to answer this question by interviewing 50 activists working in diverse settings all over the world.
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    Reducing the Burden of HIV and AIDS Care on Women and Girls

    Voluntary Services Overseas, 2006
    Community and home-based care, delivered with little support from the public health system, is currently the key response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic globally. Due to traditional gender norms and unequal gender relations, it is women and girls who generally assume primary responsibility for providing this care, whilst possibly being HIV-positive, and often needing care themselves.
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    Beyond Gender Mainstreaming: Experiences from South Africa

    Gender AIDS Forum, 2004
    There are growing expressions of commitment to addressing the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS. However, concerted action at policy and practice levels is still needed. The effectiveness of the response to HIV and AIDS depends on our ability to deal with the many inequalities that drive the epidemics.
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    "Man Hunt Intimacy: Man Clean Bathroom": Women, Sexual Pleasure, Gender Violence and HIV

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Men's contribution - or lack of it - to household tasks and expenditure and the daily burden of running a home is closely linked to sexual dissatisfaction, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. Men seek comfort by having sex with other women, and their wives also turn to other men for sex in order to buy school clothes for their children or food for the daily meal.
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    Improving women's lives: World Bank actions since Beijing

    World Bank, 2006
    The World Bank is committed to helping member countries fulfil the Beijing Platform for Action and recognises that gender equality is critical to development and poverty reduction. The World Bank's emphasis on gender increased after the 1995 Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women.
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    Women and Men in Sweden, Facts and Figures

    Statistics, Sweden, 2006
    This booklet provides graphs and statistics showing how equal women and men are in a range of areas: population, health, education, time use, child care, care of the elderly, gainful employment, salaries, income, violence and crime, and influence and power. For example, statistics show that women and men both spend on average 8 hours each day working (all days of the week included).

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