Search

Searching with a thematic focus on Gender

Showing 3981-3990 of 4318 results

Pages

• Document

  Listening to Africa, misunderstanding and misinterpreting Africa: reformist western feminist evangelism on African women

  African Studies Association, 1999

  This paper questions why the western cultural hegemony persists in scholarship and academia. It asks, is objective analysis of gender issues possible?
• Document

  Maternal mortality in Herat Province, Afghanistan: the need to protect women's rights

  Physicians for Human Rights, 2002

  This paper provides short and long term recommendations for reducing maternal mortality rates in Afghanistan, focusing on survey work in Herat Province.This study finds that women in Herat Province, Afghanistan have an extraordinarily high risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth and the highest maternal mortality ratio in the world outside of Africa.
• Document

  Women, the state and the travails of decentralizing the Nigerian Federation

  West African Review, 2000

  This essay focuses on Southern Nigeria. It examines how women were deliberately and consciously excluded from the political process and the extent to which they can participate in the political system as full citizens. It considers issues related to the meaningfulness of decentralisation, and the implications of unequal access that is built into the state structure.
• Document

  Gender: a missing dimension in human resource policy and planning for health reforms

  Human Resources for Health Development Journal, Thailand, 2000

  This article takes up the relatively neglected issue of gender in human resources policy and planning (HRPP), with particular reference to the health sector in developing countries. Current approaches to human resources lack any reference to gender issues.
• Document

  Gender-based violence: emerging issues in programs serving displaced populations

  Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium, 2002

  This book is a compendium of key lessons learned during the author's five years working with gender-based violence (GBV) programs in 12 countries, in particular Angola, Eritrea, Guinea, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Thailand and Zambia.The book describes the evolution of GBV programs serving populations affected by armed conflict.
• Document

  Progress of the world's women 2002: gender equality and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002

  This report presents data, statistics and analysis to give a picture of women's empowerment in the new century, and illuminate what remains to be done to achieve true gender equality.Findings include:Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest levels of achievement, primarily because of a devastating combination of national poverty, conflict and the effects of HIV/AIDSThe level of women's rep
• Document

  Double standards: women's property rights violations in Kenya

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report recounts the experiences of 130 women from various regions, ethnic groups, religions, and social classes in Kenya who have had their property rights flouted because they are women.The report presents evidence that women are excluded from inheriting, evicted from their lands and homes by in-laws, stripped of their possessions, and forced to engage in risky sexual practices in order t
• Document

  Gender-responsive government budgeting

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This paper examines the concept of gender-responsive government budgeting (GRGB) and the extent of its implementation by national governments in both advanced and developing countries.The paper argues that in order for GRGB to be fully effective, obstacles such as gender-biased culture, the lack of appropriate budget classifications, and the lack of gender analysis expertise and gender-disaggre
• Document

  Consumption, health, gender and poverty

  World Bank, 2003

  Standard methods of poverty measurement assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods can provide only limited insight into male and female poverty separately.
• Document

  Working women in an urban setting: traders, vendors, and food security in Accra

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999

  Despite lower incomes and additional demands on their time as housewives and mothers, female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households.

Pages