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  A Bigger Piece of a Very Small Pie: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Poverty Reduction in Africa

  BRIDGE, 2003

  Much research, some by feminists, shows that an increase in household income does not necessarily improve the well-being of all members of the household. Furthermore, research done in rural Africa finds that gender inequality is inefficient and bad for economic growth.
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  Women as Natural Environmental Carers: Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables or How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell

  BRIDGE, 2003

  The notion that women are closer to nature, naturally caring for land, water, forests and other aspects of the environment, has held powerful sway in certain development circles since the 1980s. This has led to problematic programmes which gave women responsibility to protect the environment without resources or power to do so. Since the 1990s such ?ecofeminist?
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  Dangerous Equations? How Female-headed Households Became the Poorest of the Poor: Causes, Consequences and Cautions

  BRIDGE, 2003

  In recent decades the so-called 'feminisation of poverty' has been assumed to arise from a progressive 'feminisation of household headship'. This paper challenges this assumption. It first examines how and why women-headed households have come to be widely equated with the 'poorest of the poor' in development discourse.
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  International Feminism and the Women's Movement in Egypt, 1904-1923 A Reappraisal of Categories and Legacies

  2003

  How have Egyptian feminists promoted women's rights? This paper looks at the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU) in the fight for women's right to vote in Egypt in the early twentieth century. The EFU had much in common with the international women's movement then mobilising around women's right to vote.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Egypt

  United Nations, 2000

  This submission by the government of Egypt to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) combines the fourth and fifth periodic reports, covering the period 1994 to 1998. It highlights the important role women have played in the country's development processes.
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  Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics

  2003

  Egypt's Personal Status Law (PSL) coalition, made up of activists, lawyers, government officials, NGO leaders, legislators, and scholars, has been lobbying for 15 years for changes to the personal status laws that govern marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
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  Kidnapping Brides in Kyrgyzstan: Prescriptive Human Rights Measures

  Human Rights Tribune, 2000

  Bride kidnapping has been revived as an authentic Kyrgyz tradition, resulting in the large-scale violation of women's rights in the name of preserving Kyrgyz 'culture'. This practice was outlawed during Soviet rule and is technically still illegal under the Kyrgyz's Criminal Code.
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  Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

  1998

  How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.
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  Abstinence-Only Education (in the USA): Fact Sheet

  Planned Parenthood Federation of America Incorporated, 2001

  Since the 1980s Christian right-wing fundamentalist groups in the USA have been lobbying for abstinence-only-before-marriage education instead of sex education in US schools. Their efforts have met with some success.
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  Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sexuality

  Harvard University Press, 2002

  This book is based on interviews with teenage girls in the USA about how they experience sexual desire. All of the girls were highly aware of the dangers surrounding sex including getting a bad reputation, pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, rape and violence. They have received these messages from parents and in school.

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