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  Work Transforms Itself. Relations of Production and of Gender

  Centro de Estudio de la Mujer - Honduras, 2004

  As a result of economic liberalisation and globalisation, employment has taken new forms. How do these changes interact with reproduction in Chilean society? This book argues that flexible work is often good for workers, but for women workers it is not always an option.
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  Participatory Social Auditing: a Practical Guide to Developing a Gender-Sensitive Approach

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Female workers are more likely to be in insecure, non-permanent employment, with increased vulnerability to gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Participatory approaches to social auditing of compliance to labour codes can help us uncover such complex issues.
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  BRIDGE Report 40: Gender and empowerment: definitions, approaches and implications for policy

  BRIDGE, 1997

  What is women's empowerment' If women are empowered, does that mean that men have less power' Empowerment has become a new 'buzzword' in international development language but is often not well understood. This paper explains the different understandings of empowerment, and how empowerment strategies should be designed.
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  Marriage Laws and Violence against the Spouse

  Population Environment Research Network, IUSSP-IHDP, 2005

  Marriage laws are ignored by demographers, who prefer to use socio-economic data. However, marriage laws have considerable influence over family relationships, for example by stipulating whether equality must be respected in marital relations.
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  Women's Access to Markets: Vulnerabilities and Constraints

  2003

  Traditionally markets have been off-limits to women in Bengali society. In present day Bangladesh, culture-based gender bias compounded by poverty continues to hinder women's access to markets. In rural areas in particular, women who go to the market are viewed as ?bad? women.
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  We Were In Fire, Now We Are In Water: Micro-credit and Gender Relations in Rural Bangladesh

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  What is the impact of micro-credit institutions on gender relations in Bangladesh? What effect do micro-credit groups have on women's say in household decision making, and on women's labour and leisure time?
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  Millennium Development Goals: Bangladesh Progress Report (Extract on MDG3)

  United Nations Country Team in Bangladesh, 2005

  How far is Bangladesh from achieving the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) on gender equality and women's empowerment? Female enrolment in primary school has increased steadily since 1992. However, a large disparity continues to exist both at the tertiary level of education and in terms of male and female literacy rates.
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  Building Solidarity against Patriarchy

  2004

  Challenging patriarchal beliefs and practices in Bangladesh is a difficult task. There are many cultural values which support patriarchy in Bangladesh, centring on ideas of honour (focusing in particular on the control of women's sexuality), purdah (restrictions on women's mobility), and shame.
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  Constructions of Masculinities and Violence against Women

  2001

  In Bangladesh sexual violence within marriage is often seen as a shameful but tolerated ill. Although anger about violence against women (VAW) is profound among many Bangladeshi women, numerous barriers prevent them from speaking out against gender-based violence.
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  The Noel Kempff Project in Bolivia: Gender, Power and Decision-making in Climate Mitigation

  Routledge, 2002

  Since the United Nations Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997 and set legally-binding targets for signatories to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions; forest cultivation has been promoted as an important means to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. There has, however, been limited success.

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