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    Women's Empowerment Needs a People-Centred Economy

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    In 2006 the World Bank coined the slogan 'Gender equality is smart economics'. The argument was that pushing women into paid employment or making it easier for them to establish a business leads to reduced poverty and faster growth.
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    Equality Machineries Matter: the Impact of Women's Political Pressure on European Social Care Policies

    2007
    What has been the impact of the women's movement, women's representation in national parliaments, and the existence of national gender machineries on the development of national social-care policies?
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    EWL Campaign: who Cares? EWL Position Paper on Care Issues

    European Women’s Lobby, 2006
    Who Cares? This was the name of a campaign launched in 2006 by the European Women's Lobby to improve the provision of affordable, accessible and high-quality care services for children, older people and other dependents in Europe.
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    Report on Equality between Women and Men

    European Commission, 2008
    This fifth annual report by the European Commission on gender equality in the European Union (EU) highlights the latest developments with regards to gender equality in the EU. It argues that significant progress has been made in relation to female participation in employment, female education levels, and challenging gender stereotypes.
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    Mind the gap: HIV and AIDS and older people in Africa

    HelpAge International, 2008
    At a time in their lives when many older people might expect to be cared for by their own children, a growing number, particularly women, are taking on caring roles for younger adults living with HIV, and for orphans and vulnerable children.
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    Sharing of Housework and Childcare in Contemporary Japan

    2008
    How is the division of childcare and housework between Japanese women and men changing?
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    The Equal Sharing of Responsibilities Between Women and Men, Including Care-giving in the Context of HIV/AIDS

    2008
    How can we explain why care-giving responsibilities are not equally shared between men and women? Although analysing the private sphere can help account for such inequalities it is also important to understand how wider ideologies and belief systems, and inadequacies of policy and politics, also shape the way care-giving is constructed and determine the gender division of responsibilities.
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    A 'Macro' View on Equal Sharing of Responsibilities Between Women and Men

    2008
    How can macro-economic thinking and policy help to advance the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men? This paper seeks to suggest that, in relation to care, complex processes of cultural and economic mutual determination are in place with both cultural and economic 'results'.
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    Rethinking Care, Gender Inequality and Policies

    2008
    Care is a personal service that requires presence. Without lowering standards, the productivity of caring cannot be raised substantially through mass production. People who need care cannot in general be flexible about when and where that care is provided. The need for care and the ability to provide it are both unequally distributed and do not tend not to go together.
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    Working with young women; empowerment, rights and health

    Promundo, 2009
    How do rigid ideas of what it means to be a woman or man affect women's life choices? This manual includes a series of group educational activities designed to help educators engage young women (15-24 years old) in reflecting on this question.

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