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Collective action, organisation building, and leadership: women workers in the garment sector in Bangladesh

01/11/2000

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Collective action, organisation building, and leadership: women workers in the garment sector in Bangladesh

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A very noticeable feature of economic development in many Asian countries has been the growing employment of young women in industry. Whereas much has been written about the exploitation of the workers, and this is often related to the wider debates about the links between gender relations and globalisation, there has been relatively little analysis […]

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Leadership for adolescent girls: the role of secondary schools in Uganda

01/11/2000

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Leadership for adolescent girls: the role of secondary schools in Uganda

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In countries of both the developed and developing world, success in secondary school is still seen largely in terms of examination results. However, schools have the potential to promote leadership in many different ways. In addition to formal qualifications, students gain many other skills and attributes during the years they spend in education. An important […]

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Point of Order, Mr Speaker’: African women claiming their space in parliament

01/11/2000

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Point of Order, Mr Speaker’: African women claiming their space in parliament

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At the close of the millennium, there is a wave of invigorating air sweeping across the African continent. The refreshing breeze can be felt in the form of women smashing the gendered ‘glass ceiling’ in a bid to overcome the cultural and structural barriers that impede their political careers. In this short article, I examine […]

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Leadership for social transformation: some ideas and questions on institutions and feminist leadership

01/11/2000

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Leadership for social transformation: some ideas and questions on institutions and feminist leadership

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This article affirms the importance of changing the rules, not playing by them, if we are to transform institutions so that they reflect and promote gender equality. It describes how institutions block efforts to promote gender equality, and suggests that recent efforts to ‘professionalise’ NGOs have exacerbated this tendency. However, NGOs are also currently concerned […]

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Transformational leadership: advancing the agenda for gender justice

01/11/2000

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Transformational leadership: advancing the agenda for gender justice

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In this article, I look at the concept of ‘transformational leadership’. I share my personal experience of becoming a leader in the international women’s movement, and of women mobilising as a group to transform the agenda of international development. From these I draw out some lessons which may help women who wish to transform the […]

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From palm tree to parliament: training women for political leadership and public life

01/11/2000

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From palm tree to parliament: training women for political leadership and public life

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Over the past two decades, I have worked in the field of developing women’s political leadership in over 30 countries. In this article, I define what I mean by women’s leadership, why I think there is a need to develop it, and the methods and tools that I have used to achieve this, in several […]

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The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

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The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

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In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

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Towards realistic strategies for women’s political empowerment in Africa

01/11/2000

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Towards realistic strategies for women’s political empowerment in Africa

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Current NGO and development agency strategies to support women’s political empowerment are based on two assumptions: firstly, that women’s increased access to resources, especially education, will lead to their increased representation in political positions; and secondly, that governments are genuinely committed to leading national programmes of action for women’s advancement. Both of these assumptions are […]

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Introduction

01/11/2000

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Empowered Leaders’? perspectives on women heading households in Latin America and Southern Africa

01/11/2000

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Empowered Leaders’? perspectives on women heading households in Latin America and Southern Africa

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Although development research, policy, and practice have focused extensively on women-headed households, the subject is rarely couched in terms of leadership. Drawing on case studies from Guatemala and Botswana, this paper focuses on perceptions of women heads of households in wider society; the extent to which positive images of female leadership have filtered to the […]

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