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    Business and Gender Equality Lessons from South Africa

    BRIDGE, 2002
    By promoting opportunities for women, employers improve their ability to secure quality personnel from a wider range of job applicants as well as using the different assets that both men and women bring to the workplace. More fundamentally, if business is to be sustainable in the long run, gender inequality needs to be taken more seriously.
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    Supporting Potential Women Exporters: A Case Study of the Northern Homebased Workers Network, Thailand

    APEC Committee on Trade and Investment, 2004
    The Thai Northern Homebased Workers' Network (NHWN) was founded in 2000 to support women producers of cotton woven fabrics, basketry, woodcarving and other traditional handicrafts. It is a network of 2400 members, 90 per cent women, from 64 village groups in nine provinces which aims to increase its members' collective bargaining power, skills, business management and leadership.
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    Sex Lives in the Aids Era

    2004
    This book proposes that to prevent AIDS, instead of always just talking about risk, safer more enjoyable sex lives should be promoted. This book argues that the sex workers are not transmitters of HIV/AIDS but are the first line of victims. The real infectors are the men who go whoring and have other sexual partners. Among these the most dangerous infectors are the men who do not use condoms.
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    76.8% of the Sky: Gender, Poverty and Development in Hong Kong

    2005
    76.8% is the proportion of employed women in Hong Kong whose income was under the poverty line (5000 HKD) in 2003. In spite of the feminization of poverty, the government ignores gender equality in it's poverty alleviation strategy. The only issues tackled which address women's interests are children's poverty within the family, and trans-generational poverty.
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    A Study of Gender Inequality in Rural Women's Development and their Free Time

    2004
    The relation between free time and gender inequality has been ignored by both studies of free time and by women's studies.
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    Trade Editorial

    Oxfam, 2004
    This issue of Oxfam's journal Gender and Development looks at two key linkages between gender and trade. Firstly it explores how international trade relies on an unequal division of labour between women and men, and secondly, how trade agreements have impacts on gender equality within national contexts.
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    BRIDGE Report 42: Global Trade Expansion and Liberalisation: Gender Issues and Impacts

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
    Do women work more or less when countries trade more? Do trade expansion and economic liberalisation affect women and men in different ways'? Case studies from Ghana, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Jamaica are used in this report to illustrate some of the gender dimensions relating to trade.
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    Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains

    Oxfam, 2004
    What are the difficulties faced by the predominantly female workforce at the end of global supply chains for fruit, vegetables and clothing which are dominated by powerful multinational corporations? This Oxfam report outlines these difficulties.
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    Labour and Social Issues Relating to Export Processing Zones, Report for discussion in the Tripartite Meeting of Export-Processing Zone-Operating Countries

    International Labour Organization, 1998
    It is now widely understood that women make up the majority of workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) - areas dedicated to the mass production of export commodities such as garments and electrical goods in large factories. The labour and social concerns of female workers differ from those of men.
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    Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policy-makers and Other Stakeholders

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004
    What is the relationship between gender inequality and work in the informal economy? How do we promote good working conditions for poor and vulnerable groups? Street vendors, workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and small farmers are quite visible in the informal economy.

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