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Fair and Unfair Competition: the EU-China Trade Race and its Gender Implications
2007To what extent has China's rapid transformation from a state-led to a market-oriented economy been achieved at the price of a growing gender gap in wages and promotional opportunities? This paper explores the gender implications of the Chinese trade race and the European Union's (EU) push for further rapid trade liberalisation.DocumentGender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Action Plan (Fiscal Years 2007-10)
World Bank, 2006To promote economic development and attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the global community must renew its attention to women's economic empowerment and increase investments in women.DocumentWomen's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2007Women'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.DocumentThe Second Fundher Report: Financial Sustainability for Women's Movements Worldwide
2007Where is the money for women's rights and how can we tap it? How could new resources be mobilised to build stronger feminist movements in order to advance women's rights worldwide? This report analyses the funding landscape for women's rights work, building on an earlier report published by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) in 2006.Document3rd Pacific Ministers Meeting on Women, June 2007 & Final Decisions of The 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women, May 2007
Secretariat of the Pacific Community,, 2007The 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women was attended by Ministers and officials from Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs) holding responsibilities for women's ministries and departments, and development partners.DocumentThe Political and Social Economy of Care in a Development Context: Conceptual Issues, Research Questions and Policy Options
2007The dynamics of care are receiving more attention from activists, researchers and policy makers than they did 20, even 10, years ago. In part, this is because women's massive entry into the paid work force has squeezed the time previously allocated to the unpaid care of family and friends.DocumentWorkshop on Development Effectiveness in Practice: Applying the Paris Declaration to Advancing Gender Equality, Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights - Dublin, Ireland, 26-27 April 2007
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007In April 2007, a workshop on ?Development effectiveness in practice?, hosted by Irish Aid, brought together 120 participants representing Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Members, partner countries, civil society and United Nations agencies.DocumentAny Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?
2005Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.DocumentWomen's Entrepreneurship Development Capacity Building Guide
BRIDGE, 2006This guide is designed to meet the needs for documentation to support Women's Entrepreneurship Development (WED).DocumentFrom Margins to Mainstream: From Gender Statistics to Engendering Statistical Systems
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003Engendering 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.Pages
