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    Gender Accountability: Services Fail Poor Women

    Gender Diversiteit Annette Evertzen, 2008
    What role can donors play in ensuring that women and girls are able to claim their right to equal access to basic services? How can donors help ensure these services are gender-sensitive? This paper considers what is needed in order to make public services - mainly health and education - work for poor women. It argues that services often fail poor women and girls in three key respects:
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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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    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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    Webpage: 'Gender and Social Protection' Key Issues Page

    Eldis, 2008
    Social protection as a poverty reduction strategy has been gaining attention in recent years. The term ?social protection? can be used to describe a range of public, private or informal interventions to reduce vulnerability and risk faced by poor people. Such interventions include, but are not limited to, cash transfers, social pensions, and cash- or food-for-work programmes.
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    Human Development Report 1999, Chapter 3: ?The Invisible Heart - Care and the Global Economy?

    United Nations Development Programme, 1999
    In a globally competitive labour market, how can we preserve time to care for ourselves and our families, neighbours and friends? How do we find the resources to provide for those unable to provide for themselves? And how can societies distribute the costs and burdens of this work equitably - between men and women, and between the state, family or community, and the private sector?

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