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  Fair Trade: Gender Makes the Difference

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  Fair trade is crucial for sustainable development. It provides better trading conditions to marginalised producers and workers, particularly women. This short briefing note outlines the importance of ensuring that fair trade initiatives incorporate a gender perspective.
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  Ethical Trade in African Horticulture: Gender, Rights and Participation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Are codes of conduct enough to address the gendered needs of women working in African horticulture? This paper addresses the growing use of codes of conduct outlining the employment conditions expected of southern producers. It provides an in-depth assessment of gender and ethical trade in South Africa (fruit), Kenya (flowers) and Zambia (flowers and vegetables).
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  Trade Editorial

  Oxfam, 2004

  This issue of Oxfam's journal Gender and Development looks at two key linkages between gender and trade. Firstly it explores how international trade relies on an unequal division of labour between women and men, and secondly, how trade agreements have impacts on gender equality within national contexts.
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  BRIDGE Report 42: Global Trade Expansion and Liberalisation: Gender Issues and Impacts

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  Do women work more or less when countries trade more? Do trade expansion and economic liberalisation affect women and men in different ways'? Case studies from Ghana, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Jamaica are used in this report to illustrate some of the gender dimensions relating to trade.
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  Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains

  Oxfam, 2004

  What are the difficulties faced by the predominantly female workforce at the end of global supply chains for fruit, vegetables and clothing which are dominated by powerful multinational corporations? This Oxfam report outlines these difficulties.
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  Trade, Skills and Persistence of Gender Gap: A Theoretical Framework for Policy Discussion

  2003

  Why do conventional formulations of the benefits of international trade fall short in their capacity to address persistent gender inequality?
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  Engendering Canadian Trade Policy: A Case Study of Labour Mobility in Trade Agreements

  Status of Women Canada, 2004

  This study provides a gender analysis of Canada's commitments under labour mobility agreements associated with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) (mode 4). These agreements intend to support increased cross-border trade and investment by facilitating the movement of high-skilled workers, business managers and executives.
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  Wage Discrimination by Gender in Morocco's Urban Labour Force: Evidence and Implications for Industrial and Labour Policy (Chapter in Women's Employment in the Textile Manufacturing Sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco)

  2002

  Gender-based wage discrimination is linked to trade performance and competitiveness. This paper argues that the low-wage export strategy based on female labour needs to be rethought if Morocco is to maintain its share of textile exports in the global economy.
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  Gender and Employment in Moroccan Textile Industries (Chapter in Women's Employment in the Textile Manufacturing Sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco)

  2002

  Is working in the factory liberating for women, or simply another area where she suffers from gender inequality? This chapter argues that unequal gender relations within the family and society are carried into the factory and reproduced there.
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  Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  Based on the findings of UNRISD's ongoing gender research and over 60 specially commissioned studies, this report analyses the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. Whatever their intentions, these reforms had significant and mixed implications for gender relations and women's well-being. The report is divided into four key sections.

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