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    Gender Aspects of Social Protection and Pensions in Ageing Europe

    2004
    Gender equality has had only marginal consideration in social security reforms in Europe during the last decade despite the fact that they are an important tool for achieving gender equality and women and men are affected differently by social security systems.
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    Gendered Implications of Tax Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica

    2005
    Argentina, Chile and Jamaica have all experienced a fall in tax receipts so reducing their capacity to improve the situation for the poor and women by financing health and education services and anti-poverty programmes. Costa Rica, Argentina and Chile have come to rely more heavily on indirect taxes levied on domestic goods and services.
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    Conditional Cash Transfers: What Implications for Equality and Social Cohesion? The Experience of Opportunidades in Mexico

    2008
    Oportunidades is an organisation based in Mexico that aims to increase the quality of life and capacity of members of poor households in Mexico, as well as preventing the 'cycle' of poverty where children of poor parents are themselves poor in adulthood. The programme offers 'conditional cash transfers' for parents.
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    Gender and Social Protection

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    Social protection refers to the processes, policies and interventions which respond to the economic, social, political and security risks and constraints poor and vulnerable people face. Social protection measures aim to make poor people more able to participate in economic growth. This paper is a discussion of the gender implications of social protection policies, strategies and programmes.
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    Change and Continuity in Social Protection in Latin America: Mothers at the Service of the State?

    2007
    Far from 'empowering' women, social protection programmes in Latin America often increase women's unpaid responsibilities and reinforce the gender division of labour. This is the central argument put forward in this paper, which critically analyses two social protection programmes in Latin America. The first is the well-known Mexican-based Oportunidades programme (formerly Progresa).
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    Gender Equality and the Extension of Social Protection

    International Labour Organization, 2003
    There is overwhelming evidence that women occupy a disadvantaged status in relation to work opportunities when compared to men from equivalent social groups. Underpinning this is the unequal division of domestic and care work between men and women, which constrains women from taking up or remaining in full-time employment.
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    Cash Transfers and Gender Relations: Evidence from a Pilot Project in Lesotho (draft)

    BRIDGE, 2008
    What impact do cash-transfers have on gender relations? There are two main ways in which cash transfer projects are seen as having potentially negative impacts on gender relations within recipient households. First, it is supposed that women are less likely to be able to command control over the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance, namely food.
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    Women Organizing for Social Protection: The Self Employed Women's Association's Integrated Insurance Scheme, India

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    Several international declarations and conventions establish social protection as a universal human right. Most countries in the world also recognise the individual's right to social protection in their national constitution or legislation. Nevertheless, today, the majority of the world's population still has no access to this kind of protection.
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    Manual for Gender Mainstreaming: Social Inclusion and Social Protection Policies

    European Commission, 2007
    What do EU policy makers need to do to mainstream gender into social inclusion and social protection policies? This manual provides policy makers with a hands-on tool to aid this process. It suggests several factors to consider when designing social protection policies.
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    Unprotected Employment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Gender Equality and Workers' Rights Perspective

    International Labour Organization, 2008
    Palestinian labour markets are highly gender-segregated, offering women access to a very limited number of sectors that are generally non-growth areas of the economy. This situation is exacerbated by the scarcity of employment opportunities available and the restrictions placed on Palestinians working in Israel.

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