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    Gender and Unpaid Work: Findings from the Time Use Survey

    Statistics, New Zealand, 2001
    Women and men in New Zealand spend about the same amount of time working - on average about seven hours a day. But while approximately 60 percent of men's work is paid, almost 70 percent of women's work is unpaid. Based on the findings of New Zealand's first national Time Use Survey conducted in 1998/9, this article explores differences in women's and men's participation in unpaid work.
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    Report of the Prostitution Law Review Committee on the Operation of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003

    New Zealand Ministry of Justice, 2008
    On the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the New Zealand Prostitution Reform Act (PRA) which took effect in June 2003, the New Zealand government published this evaluation report which appears to confirm the positive impacts of decriminalisation on sex workers' rights and safety.
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    New Zealand Census of Women's Participation 2008

    2008
    In New Zealand, women hold only five per cent of chief executive positions in local government. Only three of the 50 highest ranking police officers are women. And there has been only a 1.5 per cent improvement in women's representation in the judiciary between 2005 and 2007.
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    Framework for the Future - Equal Employment Opportunities in New Zealand

    University of Auckland, 2004
    New Zealand has developed a body of laws that, taken together, offer a range of protections to workers and are designed to promote fair and equal treatment for all. But the findings of this report show that the reality for many New Zealanders does not match the rhetoric of a ?fair go for everyone at work.?
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    Gender and Food Security: Inequalities in Relation to Hunger

    Genre en Action, 2008
    Between February and May 2008, 'hunger riots' erupted in the South - particularly in African countries such as Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Egypt, Algeria, the Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Madagascar and Cameroon. The riots have provided a clear warning that populations can no longer face the increasing prices of basic food products - such as rice, groundnut oil, potatoes and corn.
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    Women and Food Security in South Asia

    2006
    Despite improvements in food security in South Asia over the last few decades, nutritional outcomes, especially those related to women and children, have failed to keep pace. Even most food-deficit countries of Sub-Saharan Africa score higher. Attempts so far have failed to resolve this 'Asian enigma' of food scarcity and malnutrition amidst plenty.
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    Career family equal opportunities: studies on women and men in the Czech labour market

    Gender Studies, o.p.s., 2007
    These three papers provide the results of studies concerning the position of women and men in the Czech labour market which were carried out as a part of the European Union's Equal project ?Fifty - fifty: Equal Opportunities for Women and Men?.
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    Mainstreaming Gender in Social Protection for the Informal Economy

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2008
    How can the money spent on social protection measures make more of a difference to the lives of women workers? This book explores the gendered dimensions of risk, vulnerability and insecurity, and the subsequent need for a gender perspective in the design of social protection measures.
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    Manual for Gender Mainstreaming of Employment Policies

    European Commission, 2007
    Gender equality is a fundamental right, a common value of the European Union (EU), and a necessary condition for the achievement of the EU objectives of growth, employment and social cohesion. So begins this manual outlining a gender mainstreaming approach.
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    Resource Pack on Gender and HIV/AIDS

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2006
    This Resource Pack aims to strengthen the impact of national HIV and AIDS programmes by tackling a key factor fuelling the epidemic: gender inequality. It contains an operational guide which provides checklists to help development practitioners to integrate gender and rights into their HIV and AIDS policies and programmes.

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