Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on

Showing 671-680 of 1071 results

Pages

  • Document

    Promoting Gender Equality. A Resource Kit for Trade Unions

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This toolkit has been designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members and ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals . Trade unions have a role in protecting workers from all types of discrimination, including that based on gender.
  • Document

    GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    This training package is designed for ILO partner organisations to promote women's enterprise development, particularly for those women in poverty who want to start or already have a small-scale business.
  • Document

    Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA) Social Impact Monitoring Framework

    2005
    Pacific countries are increasingly participating in various trade agreements, both regional and international. To date, the potential social/gender impacts of these trade agreements have not been significantly factored into trade negotiations, nor closely monitored.
  • Document

    Trade Impact Review

    2002
    This tool provides an extensive overview of the literature and frameworks to analyse gender-differentiated impacts of new trade and investment agreements undertaken by the United States (US) prior to their negotiation and signing. A framework is then proposed that accounts for both the economic as well as legal effects of trade agreements on women and men.
  • Document

    Gender and Trade Indicators

    2002
    This Women in Development Europe (WIDE) information sheet - aimed at governments, trade policy makers, the WTO and academic researchers - is designed to assist efforts to measure and monitor the relationship between trade and gender. This tool consists of three sets of indicators, which can be applied to an analysis of any trading relationship between countries or trade blocks.
  • Document

    International Trade in Women's Agendas

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004
    What strategies could be used in gender and trade advocacy? Trade agreements are generally formulated and decided by governments without any input from civil society. Increasingly, though, civil society organisations have been involved in protests against international and regional free trade agreements that are not sustainable, and that are working against gender equality.
  • Document

    Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy

    Network Women in Development Europe, 2000
    Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.
  • Document

    Women, the State and Labour Rights Activism: The Role of Women's Organisations in Improving Labour Standards in Nicaragua

    Central American Women’s Network, 2005
    Maria Elena Cuadra (MEC) is an NGO set up in 1994 by leaders of the Women's Secretariat of the Sandinista Workers' Central (CST) trade union in Nicaragua. MEC was established in the light of the failure of the union to take women's concerns into account. As MEC is an NGO not a union, they were initially excluded from formal labour negotiations.
  • Document

    Gender Impacts of Trade Policies in Latin America: Progress and Challenges for Research and Action

    2003
    What has been the impact of civil society on the formulation and implementation of trade agreements in the Americas? This paper offers an overview of gender and trade research - including on employment, gender segregation in the labour market, salary gaps, and the impact of trade on productive and reproductive spheres.
  • Document

    Gender Blindnessand Gender Discrimination in the Law on Work-related Injuries

    2004
    Twenty years ago a woman in her seventh month of pregnancy received an electric shock during her job. Although her wound was insignificant, the fetus was diagnosed with mental retardation of a third grade level. The woman filed a request with her unit for compensation for her work-related injury but to no avail.

Pages