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    Paid work, women's empowerment and gender justice: critical pathways of social change

    London School of Economics, 2008
    This paper explores the contradictions that characterise debates about the relationship between paid work and women's empowerment. It suggests that this absence of consensus appears to reflect both differences of context and changes in the social meaning of work over time.
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    Women's Empowerment Needs a People-Centred Economy

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    In 2006 the World Bank coined the slogan 'Gender equality is smart economics'. The argument was that pushing women into paid employment or making it easier for them to establish a business leads to reduced poverty and faster growth.
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    Poverty Pathways: Ethnic Minority Women's Livelihoods

    Fawcett Society, 2009
    Forty percent of ethnic minority women live in poverty in the UK - twice the proportion of White women. Poverty extends to more than a third of Black women and almost two thirds of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women.
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    Equality Machineries Matter: the Impact of Women's Political Pressure on European Social Care Policies

    2007
    What has been the impact of the women's movement, women's representation in national parliaments, and the existence of national gender machineries on the development of national social-care policies?
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    Integrating a Gender Perspective into the EU Immigration Policy

    European Women’s Lobby, 2004
    Immigrant women often face multiple forms of discrimination: as women, as immigrants, and due to the racism that they suffer if they are also a member of an ethnic group. This paper considers the effects of European Union (EU) and Member States' immigration policies on migrant women, and seeks to bring a gender perspective to immigration policy.
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    EWL Campaign: who Cares? EWL Position Paper on Care Issues

    European Women’s Lobby, 2006
    Who Cares? This was the name of a campaign launched in 2006 by the European Women's Lobby to improve the provision of affordable, accessible and high-quality care services for children, older people and other dependents in Europe.
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    Report on Equality between Women and Men

    European Commission, 2008
    This fifth annual report by the European Commission on gender equality in the European Union (EU) highlights the latest developments with regards to gender equality in the EU. It argues that significant progress has been made in relation to female participation in employment, female education levels, and challenging gender stereotypes.
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    Mind the gap: HIV and AIDS and older people in Africa

    HelpAge International, 2008
    At a time in their lives when many older people might expect to be cared for by their own children, a growing number, particularly women, are taking on caring roles for younger adults living with HIV, and for orphans and vulnerable children.
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    Recasting the Global Political Economy: Counting Women's Unpaid Work

    New Political Economy, 2009
    To date, the discipline of International Political Economy (IPE) has prioritised the study of the state and the market. But what about the spheres of the social, the domestic and the household? There is a widespread, growing depletion of the capacities and resources for social reproduction - that is, the 'glue' that keeps households and societies together and active.
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    Emerging Issue: The Gender Perspectives of the Financial Crisis

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2009
    Through a series of different documents, this website link reports on an interactive panel at the Commission on the Status of Women, 2009, on the gender perspectives of the global economic crisis. Some of the points made were:

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