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    Measuring gender and women’s empowerment using confirmatory factor analysis

    Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 2005
    This paper develops a new method for constructing measures of gender and women’s empowerment with cross-sectional survey data.
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    Working with young women; empowerment, rights and health

    Promundo, 2009
    Although there has been a significant amount of work done to promote women’s empowerment, most of it has been geared towards the experiences of adult women. This manual, part of an initiative called Program M, includes a series of group educational activities to promote young women’s awareness about gender inequities, rights and health.
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    Technology-based vocational skills training for marginalized girls and young women

    UNESCO Bangkok, 2008
    In most impoverished communities, there has long been a heavy reliance on self-help mechanisms and micro-enterprise development (especially among women) in the informal economy for household and community survival and local income-generation.
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    Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

    The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) is a non-profit membership organisation and a multi-disciplinary research institute of the University of Calgary.
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    Failing women, withholding protection 15 lost years in making the female condom accessible

    Oxfam, 2008
    Since the beginning of the HIV pandemic, many girls and women have struggled to protect themselves from infection, even when fully aware of the facts of HIV transmission.
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    Innovative funding for women’s organisations

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2008
    Funding support for women’s organisations and for non-governmental organisations working to achieve gender equality is an important element in many donors strategies. These organisations often have detailed knowledge of social and cultural barriers to gender equality. They can also recognise and address the impact of gender inequalities at local, national and international level.
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    HIV/ AIDS and women: a module for women's self help groups

    Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal, UNIFEM, 2006
    This toolkit aims to enable women to explore the issues of HIV/AIDS from the standpoint of personal experiences and to encourage the ownership of the process of engaging with factors which increase their vulnerability to HIV, thereby enhancing the community’s willingness to cope.
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    Baba: men and fatherhood in South Africa

    Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2006
    What do we know about fathers in South Africa, what their roles are and what they should try to encourage? This large online book outlines how there is a difference between fathers and fatherhood. Fatherhood is not in fact a biological given, but rather something which is contested and understood based on what it means to be a man in a particular context.
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    Programme insights: learning for action on women's leadership and participation: all papers

    Oxfam, 2008
    Women are often denied a voice within the states, markets, communities, and households in which they live, dominated as they are by men and male interests.
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    Career family equal opportunities: studies on women and men in the Czech labour market

    Gender Studies, o.p.s., 2007
    This document provides the results of three studies concerning the position of women and men in the Czech labour market. The first paper is a summary of qualitative and quantitative studies find out the possibilities parents have in juggling childcare and work responsibilities and the potential constraints or sources of discrimination that can make the parents’ situation difficult.

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