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    Domains of contestation: women’s empowerment and Islam in Bangladesh

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2009
    The question of whether Islam empowers women arises in the context of contemporary Bangladesh where, while conventional indicators of gender inequality are narrowing, Islam is increasingly visible in society and politics.
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    Women's empowerment in pastoral societies

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
    It is often suggested that women in pastoral societies are marginalised and oppressed either through embedded patriarchal values or through outside influences such as development actors, whose monetary-focused economies and the targeting of men in development interventions, has led to the separation of men’s and women’s spheres of activity.
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    Paid work, women's empowerment and gender justice: critical pathways of social change

    London School of Economics, 2008
    This paper explores the contradictions and contestations that characterise debates about the relationship between paid work and women's empowerment. 
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    Pacific sisters with disabilities: at the intersection of discrimination

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    Women and girls with disabilities experience disadvantages and discrimination based on the combination of both disability and gender-based discrimination, known as ‘intersectional discrimination’. This study aims to identify the issues and challenges faced by women and girls with disabilities in the Pacific and to analyse social and economic factors impacting on their human rights.
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    Changing their world: concepts and practices of women's movements

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008
    What do we mean by women’s movements and what makes a movement feminist? Why are movements important and what are the differences between movements and organisations? What are the issues facing women’s and feminist movements today?
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    From perversion to pathology: discourses and practices of gender policing in the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 2009
    The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) punishes homosexuality with death but acknowledges transsexuality, and partially funds sex change operations. This article examines how this seemingly progressive stance on transsexuality is connected to Iran's larger, and the authors argue, oppressive apparatus of gender.
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    Staying behind when husbands move: women’s experiences in India and Bangladesh

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2009
    The study of the difficulties faced by those who stay behind when a member of their household migrates temporarily are under-researched in migration studies. The aim of this briefing is to summarise the effects of the temporary absence of migrant men on women’s livelihoods in rural West Bengal, India, and northern Bangladesh.
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    Servant-leadership and motherhood: Kenyan women finding fulfillment in serving humanity

    Women and International Development Center, Michigan State University, 2009
    Western discourse on the status of women and their positions in society, the inequity in their employment experiences, and their limited participation in leadership dominates intellectual theorizing on African women. This article employs African data to de-marginalize African women by explicating how women from Kenya articulate servant-leadership as motherhood in the public domain.
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    Institutional violence and sexual panic directed at poor young women and trans persons in Buenos Aires

    Women and International Development Center, Michigan State University, 2008
    Institutional violence directed against young people in Argentina has involved a specific dimension of sexual and gendered violence.
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    Transforming the landscape of leadership in microfinance: maintaining the focus on women

    Women's World Banking, 2009
    Women’s leadership has been central to microfinance from the inception of the industry. Many of the industry’s pioneers were women, and as microfinance institutions grew, women were well represented in management. To this day, in comparison with other industries, the representation of women in leadership remains strong in microfinance.

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