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  Youth and skills: putting education to work: gender overview

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2012

  As more children around the world get the chance to enter secondary school, i
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  A woman's job: who cares about unpaid carers?

  The Guardian, UK, 2013

  Women’s health can be adversely affected by an endless cycle of cooking, clea
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  India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: women’s participation and impacts in Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Rajasthan

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011

  This research examines women's participation in NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) in selected areas in three states: Kerala, Himachal and Rajasthan. The Indian government's NREGS has succeeded in bringing large numbers of women into paid work, many of them for the first time. 
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  Issues in labour market inequality and women’s participation in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

  International Labour Organization, 2011

  The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGP or NREGP), functions as an income supplement for poor households by providing 100 days of work to a rural household, with 33 per cent of all workdays reserved for women workers.
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  Women workers and the politics of claims-making in a globalizing economy

  Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2015

  This paper draws on empirical studies to examine how the politics of claims-making by women workers in the Global South have evolved in the context of increased globalisation.
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  Work and welfare: revisiting the linkages from a gender perspective

  Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2012

  This paper takes a gender perspective to examine the relationship between employment and social policy. It challenges key assumptions about the translation of patterns of growth into welfare outcomes that are made in most poverty- and inequality-reduction approaches.
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  Economic crisis and women's work: exploring progressive strategies in a rapidly changing global environment

  UN Women, 2013

  This report examines the gendered impacts of on-going global financial and economic crises in the labour market.
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  Stella Oyedepo and the feminist vision in the Rebellion of the Bumpy-Chested

  International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013

  Feminist activism and civic participation can come in many forms, including theatre. The prolific playwright Stella Oyedepo is arguably one of the most visible practitioners of theatre in Nigeria today, with plays including Survive, We Will, The Missing Ingredient, and Brain has no Gender.
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  Traditional gender roles of men and women in natural resource conservation among the vhavenda people in Zimbabwe: implications for sustainable development

  International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2015

  Natural resource conservation is absolutely key to the concept of sustainable development, yet environmental pressures continue to increase including soil degradation, water availability, and nutrient cycling.
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  Gender & climate change adaptation: empowering women in agriculture and forestry

  Rainforest Alliance, 2014

  In every region of the world, women are engaged in sectors that are directly affected by climate change. In agriculture, forestry, and other livelihood activities, these women are already feeling the impact of climate change; and generally experience greater vulnerability and risk than men.

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