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    Cuidar sem violência, todo mundo pode!

    Promundo, 2003
    This is a practical guide for families and communities to develop violence free-education. The guide is divided into three modules: methods for the prevention of intra-family violence, the promotion of child development, and the rights of children and adolescents.
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    MenCare in Latin America: Challenging harmful masculine norms and promoting positive changes in men’s caregiving' EMERGE Story of Change 5

    BRIDGE, 2015
    This story of change pulls out the main findings and recommendations from EMERGE case study 5, which highlights the MenCare campaign in Latin America and its work to promote positive fatherhood and men's caregiving roles.
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    Men Who Care: A multi country qualitative study of men in non traditional care giving roles

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2012
    What hinders men's involvement in care work? What encourages it? Who are the men who are doing more than the average and are taking on care work as a key part of their lives? How do men understand and describe their participation in activities that traditionally seen as female roles, both in the home and in the work setting?
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    Sharing of Housework and Childcare in Contemporary Japan

    2008
    How is the division of childcare and housework between Japanese women and men changing?
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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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    Rethinking Care, Gender Inequality and Policies

    2008
    Care is a personal service that requires presence. Without lowering standards, the productivity of caring cannot be raised substantially through mass production. People who need care cannot in general be flexible about when and where that care is provided. The need for care and the ability to provide it are both unequally distributed and do not tend not to go together.
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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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    From Conciliation to Coresponsibility: Good Practice and Recommendations

    Instituto de la Mujer, 2007
    This document was researched and produced by the Spanish National Machinery for the Advancement of Women (Instituto de la Mujer). It identifies good practices in relation to a) promoting women's integration into the labour market, and b) encouraging men's involvement in care and domestic tasks. Building on these good practices, a comprehensive plan is outlined.

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