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    Women's Right to Land: Voices from Grassroots Movement and Working Women's Alliance from Gujarat

    BRIDGE, 2008
    Studies have shown that a key factor associated with rural poverty is access to land. Yet in many parts of India there remains a huge gender gap in land ownership and control - with significant implications for women's economic and social status.
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    Sharing of Housework and Childcare in Contemporary Japan

    2008
    How is the division of childcare and housework between Japanese women and men changing?
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    The Equal Sharing of Responsibilities Between Women and Men, Including Care-giving in the Context of HIV/AIDS

    2008
    How can we explain why care-giving responsibilities are not equally shared between men and women? Although analysing the private sphere can help account for such inequalities it is also important to understand how wider ideologies and belief systems, and inadequacies of policy and politics, also shape the way care-giving is constructed and determine the gender division of responsibilities.
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    A 'Macro' View on Equal Sharing of Responsibilities Between Women and Men

    2008
    How can macro-economic thinking and policy help to advance the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men? This paper seeks to suggest that, in relation to care, complex processes of cultural and economic mutual determination are in place with both cultural and economic 'results'.
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    Rethinking Care, Gender Inequality and Policies

    2008
    Care is a personal service that requires presence. Without lowering standards, the productivity of caring cannot be raised substantially through mass production. People who need care cannot in general be flexible about when and where that care is provided. The need for care and the ability to provide it are both unequally distributed and do not tend not to go together.
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    Working with young women; empowerment, rights and health

    Promundo, 2009
    How do rigid ideas of what it means to be a woman or man affect women's life choices? This manual includes a series of group educational activities designed to help educators engage young women (15-24 years old) in reflecting on this question.
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    Gender and Care Cutting Edge Pack

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Providing care can be both a source of fulfilment and a terrible burden. For women and girls in particular, their socially prescribed role as carers can undermine their rights and limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices - posing a fundamental obstacle to gender equality and well-being.
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    Gender and Development In Brief ‘Gender and Care’ – edition 20

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    In Brief is a six page newsletter that aims to stimulate thinking on a priority gender theme. This edition focuses on gender and care, starting with an overview and recommendations followed by two distinctive case studies highlighting practical responses to key issues.
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    Gender and Care: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This Supporting Resources Collection show-cases existing work on gender and care. It presents summaries and links to key texts, tools and case studies which provide further information on the five main questions addressed in the BRIDGE Gender and Care Overview Report: How can we prompt a re-conceptualisation of care as something that is valuable and productive?
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    Comparative Study of the 'Care Economy' in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay

    America Latina Genera, 2007
    Focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, this report presents the findings of a study into the types of care services and provisions available in each country, and analyses changes which have taken place. It also examines the gender norms which regulate access to such services, and which shape how family and work responsibilities are reconciled.

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