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    Gender and Care Cutting Edge Pack

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Providing care can be both a source of fulfilment and a terrible burden. For women and girls in particular, their socially prescribed role as carers can undermine their rights and limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices - posing a fundamental obstacle to gender equality and well-being.
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    Gender and Development In Brief ‘Gender and Care’ – edition 20

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    In Brief is a six page newsletter that aims to stimulate thinking on a priority gender theme. This edition focuses on gender and care, starting with an overview and recommendations followed by two distinctive case studies highlighting practical responses to key issues.
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    Gender and Care: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This Supporting Resources Collection show-cases existing work on gender and care. It presents summaries and links to key texts, tools and case studies which provide further information on the five main questions addressed in the BRIDGE Gender and Care Overview Report: How can we prompt a re-conceptualisation of care as something that is valuable and productive?
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    Comparative Study of the 'Care Economy' in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay

    America Latina Genera, 2007
    Focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, this report presents the findings of a study into the types of care services and provisions available in each country, and analyses changes which have taken place. It also examines the gender norms which regulate access to such services, and which shape how family and work responsibilities are reconciled.
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    Webpage: 'Gender and Social Protection' Key Issues Page

    Eldis, 2008
    Social protection as a poverty reduction strategy has been gaining attention in recent years. The term ?social protection? can be used to describe a range of public, private or informal interventions to reduce vulnerability and risk faced by poor people. Such interventions include, but are not limited to, cash transfers, social pensions, and cash- or food-for-work programmes.
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    Human Development Report 1999, Chapter 3: ?The Invisible Heart - Care and the Global Economy?

    United Nations Development Programme, 1999
    In a globally competitive labour market, how can we preserve time to care for ourselves and our families, neighbours and friends? How do we find the resources to provide for those unable to provide for themselves? And how can societies distribute the costs and burdens of this work equitably - between men and women, and between the state, family or community, and the private sector?
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    Human Development Report 1995, Chapter 4: ?Valuing Women's Work?

    United Nations Development Programme, 1995
    Much of the work that women do remains unrecognised and unvalued, particularly in economic terms. This has an impact on the status of women in society, their opportunities in public life and the failure of development policy to address gender inequalities. This chapter of the Human Development Report reflects on the scale and nature of women's economic contributions globally.
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    Time-use Surveys in Latin America

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009
    This presentation by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) provides an overview of the wide range of initiatives that have been carried out in Latin America on the issue of time use. Mandated by international and regional agreements such as the Beijing Platform for Action and the Quito Consensus, a number of national governments have introduced time use modules.
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    A Critical Review of Selected Time Use Surveys

    2007
    Time use surveys provide information on the activities people perform over a given time period - generally a day or a week - as well as how much time they spend on each of the specified activities.
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    Time Use and Unpaid work in Uruguay. Household Survey Module September 2007

    Instituto Nacional de Estadística / National Institute of Statistics, Bolivia, 2008
    In 2007, the National Statistics Institute of Uruguay introduced a module on time use and unpaid work into the national household survey. This initiative was part of a wider regional project, funded by the United Nations Development Fund for Woment (UNIFEM) and the Spanish Development Cooperation, and implemented in collaboration with local governments.

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