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Best practice guidelines for creating a culture of gender equality in the private sector
Commission on Gender Equality, South Africa, 1998This guide is designed to highlight and promote the involvement of private business in achieving gender equality, including business leaders, policymakers, human resource managers and other business specialists.DocumentCitizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society
Oxfam, 2003One of the greatest barriers to achieving full citizenship rights for women is culture. If development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of ?culture? that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.DocumentWhere Angels Fear to Tread? Some Thoughts on Patricia McFadden's "Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice"
African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2003This paper is written in response to Patricia Mcfadden's ?Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice?. It argues that Mcfadden's assumption that African women are universally sexually repressed overlooks the diversity of African women's sexualities.DocumentSexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice
African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2003This paper condemns the many silences in the debates around African women's sexualities. It argues that African women are often fearful of considering the possibilities for sexual pleasure because of patriarchal concepts of women's sexuality as something ?bad? or "filthy?. This has led to the suppression of feminist energies and political action.DocumentEroticism, Sensuality and ?Women's Secrets? among the Baganda: A Critical Analysis
Continental Feminist Studies Network, 2005African women are often seen as victims of sexual oppression, a portrayal which is both inaccurate and disempowering. This paper contests this simplistic assumption through an analysis of the institution of Ssenga among the Baganda people of Uganda. Ssenga is a form of sexual initiation, in which traditionally the paternal Aunt tutors young girls in a range of sexual matters.DocumentGET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit
International Labour Organization, 2004This training package is designed for ILO partner organisations to promote women's enterprise development, particularly for those women in poverty who want to start or already have a small-scale business.DocumentWomen in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy
Network Women in Development Europe, 2000Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.DocumentAssessing the Enabling Environment for Women in Growth Enterprises: An AfDB/ILO Integrated Framework Assessment Guide
International Labour Organization, 2005There is a growing recognition of the importance of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) for development in Africa. Women's entrepreneurial activities mainly take place within the context of MSMEs which currently create the majority of new jobs across the continent.DocumentA Study of Gender Inequality in Rural Women's Development and their Free Time
2004The relation between free time and gender inequality has been ignored by both studies of free time and by women's studies.DocumentAssessing the Gender Impact of the Community based Animal Health Programme in Southern Sudan
Veterinaires sans Frontieres, Belgium, 2002How does the position of women in the Nuer Community affect the division of labour in livestock activities? In southern Sudan many communities are chronically food insecure with little access to livestock and its products (e.g. milk and blood meat).Pages