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    Paradox and promise in the Philippines: a joint country gender assessment

    Asian Development Bank, 2008
    This joint country gender assessment, launched in October 2007, was led by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with cooperation from the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the European Commission (EC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations
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    2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development Women’s Control Over Economic Resources and Access to Financial Resources, Including Microfinance

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2009
    Long-standing inequalities in the gender distribution of economic and financial resources have placed women at a disadvantage relative to men in their capability to participate in, contribute to and benefit from broader processes of development. This survey provides an overview of the gender equality implications of economic growth, monetary, fiscal and trade policies and capital flows.
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    Men and care in the context of HIV and AIDS: structure, political will and greater male involvement

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2008
    What drives the enormous burden of AIDS-related care which falls on women and girls? What strategies are needed to reduce this burden? Rather than focusing only on ways to increase men's participation in shouldering a more equitable share of the burden of AIDS-related care, this insightful paper starts out with an analysis of the structural forces that affect how AIDS care is provided.
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    The Equal Sharing of Responsibilities Between Women and Men, Including Care-giving in the Context of HIV/AIDS

    2008
    How can we explain why care-giving responsibilities are not equally shared between men and women? Although analysing the private sphere can help account for such inequalities it is also important to understand how wider ideologies and belief systems, and inadequacies of policy and politics, also shape the way care-giving is constructed and determine the gender division of responsibilities.
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    A 'Macro' View on Equal Sharing of Responsibilities Between Women and Men

    2008
    How can macro-economic thinking and policy help to advance the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men? This paper seeks to suggest that, in relation to care, complex processes of cultural and economic mutual determination are in place with both cultural and economic 'results'.
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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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    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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