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Women’s inheritance rights in Malawi: the role of District Assemblies

01/02/2005

7 pages long

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Overview

Legal reforms are increasingly seen as essential in combating various constraints women face in relation to property and inheritance. These efforts are reinforced by commitments countries have made by adopting such treaties as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and by the incorporation into their constitutions of various […]

Journal article

Education for women’s empowerment or schooling for women’s subordination?

01/07/1998

8 pages long

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Education for women’s empowerment or schooling for women’s subordination?

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Overview

This article is concerned with identifying the main elements in a programme of education for women’s empowerment, by contrasting such education with its opposite: schooling for subordination. It is here argued that education and training for women’s empowerment needs to reverse the values and beliefs which have been inculcated within the conventional school system. This […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Journal article

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

07/12/2021

15 pages long

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When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

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Overview

Trade unions exist to harness workers’ collective action as a means of challenging the dominant power structures that seek to exploit their labour. This article highlights the experiences of Black women trade unionists in different parts of the world who were motivated to join trade unions in order to defend workers’ rights and to advance […]

Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

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Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

Keywords

Overview

Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

Journal article

A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

01/10/1994

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

Keywords

Overview

Latin American women from all walks of life are organising against issues that oppress them, from debt and industrialisation to gender based violence. Entre Mujeres (Among Women) unites women’s NGOs to influence funding agencies and Governments, and to create ties between Southern and European women. This North-South co-operation needs to be extended. The South is […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

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Private Sector at Oxfam

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Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

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Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s inheritance rights in Malawi: the role of District Assemblies

01/02/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Legal reforms are increasingly seen as essential in combating various constraints women face in relation to property and inheritance. These efforts are reinforced by commitments countries have made by adopting such treaties as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and by the incorporation into their constitutions of various […]

Journal article

Education for women’s empowerment or schooling for women’s subordination?

01/07/1998

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Education for women’s empowerment or schooling for women’s subordination?

Keywords

Overview

This article is concerned with identifying the main elements in a programme of education for women’s empowerment, by contrasting such education with its opposite: schooling for subordination. It is here argued that education and training for women’s empowerment needs to reverse the values and beliefs which have been inculcated within the conventional school system. This […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Journal article

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

07/12/2021

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

Keywords

Overview

Trade unions exist to harness workers’ collective action as a means of challenging the dominant power structures that seek to exploit their labour. This article highlights the experiences of Black women trade unionists in different parts of the world who were motivated to join trade unions in order to defend workers’ rights and to advance […]

Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

Keywords

Overview

Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

Journal article

A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

01/10/1994

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

Keywords

Overview

Latin American women from all walks of life are organising against issues that oppress them, from debt and industrialisation to gender based violence. Entre Mujeres (Among Women) unites women’s NGOs to influence funding agencies and Governments, and to create ties between Southern and European women. This North-South co-operation needs to be extended. The South is […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

Webpage

Private Sector at Oxfam

We are working towards a human economy where businesses play a positive role in overcoming poverty and inequality

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s inheritance rights in Malawi: the role of District Assemblies

01/02/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Legal reforms are increasingly seen as essential in combating various constraints women face in relation to property and inheritance. These efforts are reinforced by commitments countries have made by adopting such treaties as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and by the incorporation into their constitutions of various […]

Journal article

Education for women’s empowerment or schooling for women’s subordination?

01/07/1998

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Education for women’s empowerment or schooling for women’s subordination?

Keywords

Overview

This article is concerned with identifying the main elements in a programme of education for women’s empowerment, by contrasting such education with its opposite: schooling for subordination. It is here argued that education and training for women’s empowerment needs to reverse the values and beliefs which have been inculcated within the conventional school system. This […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Journal article

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

07/12/2021

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

Keywords

Overview

Trade unions exist to harness workers’ collective action as a means of challenging the dominant power structures that seek to exploit their labour. This article highlights the experiences of Black women trade unionists in different parts of the world who were motivated to join trade unions in order to defend workers’ rights and to advance […]

Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

Keywords

Overview

Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

Journal article

A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

01/10/1994

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

Keywords

Overview

Latin American women from all walks of life are organising against issues that oppress them, from debt and industrialisation to gender based violence. Entre Mujeres (Among Women) unites women’s NGOs to influence funding agencies and Governments, and to create ties between Southern and European women. This North-South co-operation needs to be extended. The South is […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

Webpage

Private Sector at Oxfam

We are working towards a human economy where businesses play a positive role in overcoming poverty and inequality

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]