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The Oxfam Education Report

23/11/2000

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240 pages long

Languages: English

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This comprehensive report focuses on the fact that millions of people in poor countries remain uneducated and illiterate – which prevents them from developing the skills they need to escape poverty. The book looks at the underlying causes of the problem and sets out a clear agenda for reform. It demonstrates that universal free good-quality […]

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Journal article

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

01/11/2000

8 pages long

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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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Briefing note

Education: The Global Gender Gap

06/03/2000

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8 pages long

Languages: English

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Girls’ education is a fundamental right, as well as a catalyst for economic growth and human development. Despite this, girls comprise two-thirds of the 125 million children across the world who are not in school. The World Education Forum in Dakar in April 2000 provides an opportunity to launch a concrete programme to deliver the […]

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Book

Gender and Lifecycles

01/01/2000

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99 pages long

Languages: English

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This book links gender issues to the life-courses of women and men. Gender-based discrimination is experienced differently according to age, generation, and status in the family. In particular, female children and elderly women perform an enormous amount of the world’s work, endure appalling abuses of their human rights, and receive disproportionately few benefits from development. […]

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Development with Women

01/01/1999

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210 pages long

Languages: English

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Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women ‘matter’ in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women’s needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier ‘gender-blind’ efforts which simply ignored women’s specific concerns. Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on […]

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Journal article

A valuable lesson

01/06/1994

2 pages long

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Shareer ki Jaankari is a book produced by hundred village women. A series of workshops on health was the starting point. In the workshops the discussion focused on women’s health issues: how does the woman’s body change from girlhood through adolescence to old age? What is menstruation? How do you know when you are pregnant? […]

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Book

Silver Shackles: Women and development in India

01/01/1984

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108 pages long

Languages: English

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Relegated by Indian culture and traditions to a position of inferiority, women remain shackled by lack of access to education and health care, increasing unemployment and the deficiencies of their legal status. Burdened at home and exploited at work, women are India’s vast “invisible” labour force – yet they have been virtually by-passed by Indian […]

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Discussion paper

Women in Rural Zaire and Upper Volta: Improving methods of skill acquisition

01/11/1977

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39 pages long

Languages: English

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Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]

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