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  Best practice guidelines for creating a culture of gender equality in the private sector

  Commission on Gender Equality, South Africa, 1998

  This guide is designed to highlight and promote the involvement of private business in achieving gender equality, including business leaders, policymakers, human resource managers and other business specialists.
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  Action research: garment industry supply chains

  Women Working Worldwide, 2003

  This manual, aimed at researchers, gives practical guidance on how to conduct action research that will promote and support workers' rights, focusing on garment industry supply chains.
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  Identification of economic opportunities for women's groups and communities

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This guide is designed to support strategies for improved employment opportunities, particularly amongst women. It is aimed at development and community organisations, including women's groups, small business associations, workers' and employers' organisations, as well as in-country staff charged with assisting these groups.
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  Gender mainstreaming in trade and industry: a reference manual for governments and other stakeholders

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003

  Gender mainstreaming in the trade sector entails the equal participation and consideration of women and men in every aspect of trade, including in policy formulation, decision-making, in trade operations, access to opportunities for work, and upgrading of skills and career development.
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  Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World

  Routledge, 2002

  It is often assumed that women's empowerment is best pursued at a local level, through grassroots participatory methods. While a welcome antidote to the development community's long-standing preference for state-led, top-down development, this focus on the local tends to underplay the impact of global and national forces on prospects for poor people's - especially women's - empowerment.
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  NGOs, Gender Mainstreaming and Urban Poor Communities in Mumbai

  Routledge, 2005

  How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) support women during rapid economic, social and political change? This article argues that NGOs working at the community level can play an important role in supporting women to challenge customs and beliefs which perpetuate unequal gender relations. However, this becomes particularly challenging in a context of rapid change, such as in Mumbai.
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  Corporate Responsibility and Women's Employment: the Cashew Nut Case

  2004

  Over the last two decades, the deregulation of labour markets and the globalisation and fragmentation of production processes has increased the demand for labour, particularly female labour, in many parts of the world. There has been a rapid and substantial increase in the proportions of women in paid work, although figures do not capture women's participation in informal jobs.
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  Citizenship: towards a feminist synthesis

  Feminist Review, 1997

  This article outlines how citizenship can be used as a political and theoretical tool by combining 'rights' and 'participation'. Participation in social, economic, cultural and political decision-making provides a more dynamic and active form of rights in which people work together to improve their quality of life.
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  Women, citizenship and difference

  Feminist Review, 1997

  In a globalising world where the role of the local, the national and the global is shifting, the meanings of citizenship are also changing. This article presents some new theoretical discussions on gender and citizenship.
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  Women, nationality and citizenship

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  In the majority of cases, nationality is crucial to the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This has significant implications for those who do not have nationality such as stateless persons and refugees. However, looking at nationality also reveals numerous gender discriminations.

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