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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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    Globalisation Hurts Women more than Men

    BRIDGE, 2003
    A common myth is that globalisation hurts women more than men. This myth is based on two other related myths, firstly that men control women's incomes at household level, secondly that whereas men are selfish, women are weak, maternal and generous, and hence devote most of their earnings to the needs of their children.
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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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    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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    Contested Terrain: Oxfam, Gender, and the Aftermath of War

    Oxfam, 2001
    The topic of gender relations in the context of conflict covers highly sensitive terrain, not only within the war-torn society, but for intervening institutions. Like other international humanitarian agencies, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has faced difficult questions about whether its presence has sometimes done more harm than good.
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    Gender in Practice: A Tool-kit for Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and its Partners

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2003
    This kit does not claim to provide all the answers, but does offer key questions to ask on gender, and tools which can be adapted to different situations. While the pack targets SDC and partners, it is also useful to gender mainstreaming in other organisations.
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    Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens

    United Nations Development Programme, 2003
    A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.
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    Gender and Development: An Information Kit

    2000
    This information kit is a tool for gender and development specialists/ consultants working in Egypt. It was produced by the Gender and Development (GAD) Sub-Group, the body responsible for coordinating and sharing information between the UN, bilateral donor and Egyptian NGOs on gender initiatives in Egypt. The kit is broken down into five booklets.
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    The Gender Dimensions of Poverty in Egypt

    2001
    Does poverty in Egypt have a woman's face? Is female poverty linked to their conditions in the labour market or levels of education? Are women particularly at risk in poor households? This report addresses the gender dimensions of poverty using the recent Household Expenditure, Income and Consumption Survey of 1999/2000 for Egypt.

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