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    Business and Gender Equality Lessons from South Africa

    BRIDGE, 2002
    By promoting opportunities for women, employers improve their ability to secure quality personnel from a wider range of job applicants as well as using the different assets that both men and women bring to the workplace. More fundamentally, if business is to be sustainable in the long run, gender inequality needs to be taken more seriously.
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    Supporting Potential Women Exporters: A Case Study of the Northern Homebased Workers Network, Thailand

    APEC Committee on Trade and Investment, 2004
    The Thai Northern Homebased Workers' Network (NHWN) was founded in 2000 to support women producers of cotton woven fabrics, basketry, woodcarving and other traditional handicrafts. It is a network of 2400 members, 90 per cent women, from 64 village groups in nine provinces which aims to increase its members' collective bargaining power, skills, business management and leadership.
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    76.8% of the Sky: Gender, Poverty and Development in Hong Kong

    2005
    76.8% is the proportion of employed women in Hong Kong whose income was under the poverty line (5000 HKD) in 2003. In spite of the feminization of poverty, the government ignores gender equality in it's poverty alleviation strategy. The only issues tackled which address women's interests are children's poverty within the family, and trans-generational poverty.
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    Gender Analysis Based on a Theoretical Hypothesis on Methods for Mainstreaming Urban Poverty Measurements

    2004
    Mainstream urban poverty measurements make a basic theoretical assumption: 'equal distribution of poverty in the family', or 'equal grading of the consumption of basic living resources in the family'.
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    Social Differentiation and Gender Stratification in the Present Phase of China

    Zhejiang University, 2004
    During the current social transition those with most power are men. Men make up about three-quarters of all those managing, state, society and private enterprises. In the middle levels of society, women and men make up fairly equal proportions of professional and technical people, but men outnumber women in higher level posts, and women predominate at the lower end.
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    Women's Federation's Unempowered Participation in International Development Projects

    2004
    Women's participation is a requirement, in name, for the acquisition and implementation of large-scale international development projects. These projects, generally in practice, are implemented by the relevant departments of specific sectors of government.
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    How Can Women Village Officials Deal with Crises in Village Management?

    Rural Women Knowing All, 2004
    How to deal with crises' was the theme of a field workshop held in 2004 by the Support Network for Women Village Heads. Issues discussed included - ?After the village head was assaulted,?? ?When many villagers appealed to the higher authorities for help,? ?When pollution compensation fees cause trouble,? and ?Facing problems of collecting taxes?.
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    A Practical Manual on Rural Women's Participation in the Elections for Village Committees

    2004
    This is the first systematic teaching material on rural women's participation in village autonomy. Written by women experts, this book focuses on rural women's participation in elections. The book is based on the perspectives of law, policy, theory, and practice.
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    Gender Primer of Trade and Investment Policies

    2002
    What are the policy measures put in place by governments to regulate international trade, and how do they relate to gender roles and relationships? This primer firstly makes the case for looking at gender in the context of trade, arguing that trade has different impacts on men and women, and that men and women respond differently to trade policies.
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    Labour and Social Issues Relating to Export Processing Zones, Report for discussion in the Tripartite Meeting of Export-Processing Zone-Operating Countries

    International Labour Organization, 1998
    It is now widely understood that women make up the majority of workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) - areas dedicated to the mass production of export commodities such as garments and electrical goods in large factories. The labour and social concerns of female workers differ from those of men.

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