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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

03/11/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

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Overview

Malawian women lead their communities as democratic representatives, by participating with men in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Contemporary formal state politics is constructed as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking to explore reasons why this is the […]

Briefing note

Ending Violence Against Women: The case for a comprehensive international action plan

22/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

What progress has been made towards ending violence against women worldwide? Violence against women is a violation of human rights, a barrier to women’s active citizenship, and a fundamental constraint to the eradication of poverty. When governments meet at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2013 their commitment is urgently needed […]

Journal article

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

01/02/1995

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

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Overview

The women’s media network Fempress unites feminists and academics through: a monthly Latin American magazine; a Press Service on women’s issues; and a Radio Press Service across Latin America. Santa Cruz shows how these goals were achieved, from Fempress’s modest start drawing together a small, disparate women’s movement. Fempress’s founding aim of unity through communication […]

Journal article

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

01/02/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

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Overview

This article charts the history of the Yugoslav women’s movement to the present day. The previously strong women’s movement is now splitting along patriarchal nationalist lines. NGOs and women’s groups are multiplying. They support women and children affected by the conflict. Oxfam seeks to empower these groups by providing a space for them to develop […]

Journal article

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

14/11/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Recently the ‘demographic dividend’ has attracted attention from policymakers because of the promise it delivers for development. But it has attracted criticism for taking an instrumental approach to young people rather than focusing on equality and rights. A similar critique has come from feminists evaluating livelihoods programming focusing on women’s ‘economic empowerment’. In this article, […]

Journal article

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

12/12/2023

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

Keywords

Overview

Institutional strengthening, securitisation, free market promotion, and development policy implementation are foundational elements of liberal peace. However, the creation of an inferior colonisable other sustains this link and has justified programmes of violent repression and silencing. Decolonial, post-liberal, localised, and feminist peace-building stances condemn those power structures and promote alternative means of achieving well-being and […]

Journal article

Transitions and boundaries: research into the impact of paid work on young women’s lives in Jordan

01/07/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transitions and boundaries: research into the impact of paid work on young women’s lives in Jordan

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores the economic and social impact of the growing participation of young urban women in the workforce in Amman, Jordan. The writer argues that there is a new ‘stage’ in women’s life-course in Jordan: single, employed adulthood. This is expanding young women’s horizons, and challenging relationships between women and men, and between different […]

Journal article

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

Keywords

Overview

Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

Journal article

Women and protest politics in Pakistan

07/12/2021

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and protest politics in Pakistan

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Overview

This article draws on qualitative research on five different gendered contentions in Pakistan: a feminist mobilisation, a protest against child sexual abuse, a workers’ mobilisation for greater employment benefits, an ethno-religious minority community’s demand for protection from sectarian attacks, and an ethno-nationalist mobilisation for post-conflict security and greater rights. All our cases of contention are […]

Journal article

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

25/11/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on agency and citizenship from the point of view of Bangladeshi immigrant women who have been living in UK for the last two generations. They have a transnational identity, living between two cultures, which often have contradictory elements. On the one hand, these women identify themselves as British citizens: a status which […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

03/11/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

Keywords

Overview

Malawian women lead their communities as democratic representatives, by participating with men in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Contemporary formal state politics is constructed as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking to explore reasons why this is the […]

Briefing note

Ending Violence Against Women: The case for a comprehensive international action plan

22/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

What progress has been made towards ending violence against women worldwide? Violence against women is a violation of human rights, a barrier to women’s active citizenship, and a fundamental constraint to the eradication of poverty. When governments meet at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2013 their commitment is urgently needed […]

Journal article

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

01/02/1995

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

Keywords

Overview

The women’s media network Fempress unites feminists and academics through: a monthly Latin American magazine; a Press Service on women’s issues; and a Radio Press Service across Latin America. Santa Cruz shows how these goals were achieved, from Fempress’s modest start drawing together a small, disparate women’s movement. Fempress’s founding aim of unity through communication […]

Journal article

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

01/02/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

This article charts the history of the Yugoslav women’s movement to the present day. The previously strong women’s movement is now splitting along patriarchal nationalist lines. NGOs and women’s groups are multiplying. They support women and children affected by the conflict. Oxfam seeks to empower these groups by providing a space for them to develop […]

Journal article

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

14/11/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Recently the ‘demographic dividend’ has attracted attention from policymakers because of the promise it delivers for development. But it has attracted criticism for taking an instrumental approach to young people rather than focusing on equality and rights. A similar critique has come from feminists evaluating livelihoods programming focusing on women’s ‘economic empowerment’. In this article, […]

Journal article

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

12/12/2023

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

Keywords

Overview

Institutional strengthening, securitisation, free market promotion, and development policy implementation are foundational elements of liberal peace. However, the creation of an inferior colonisable other sustains this link and has justified programmes of violent repression and silencing. Decolonial, post-liberal, localised, and feminist peace-building stances condemn those power structures and promote alternative means of achieving well-being and […]

Journal article

Transitions and boundaries: research into the impact of paid work on young women’s lives in Jordan

01/07/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transitions and boundaries: research into the impact of paid work on young women’s lives in Jordan

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores the economic and social impact of the growing participation of young urban women in the workforce in Amman, Jordan. The writer argues that there is a new ‘stage’ in women’s life-course in Jordan: single, employed adulthood. This is expanding young women’s horizons, and challenging relationships between women and men, and between different […]

Journal article

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

Keywords

Overview

Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

Journal article

Women and protest politics in Pakistan

07/12/2021

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and protest politics in Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on qualitative research on five different gendered contentions in Pakistan: a feminist mobilisation, a protest against child sexual abuse, a workers’ mobilisation for greater employment benefits, an ethno-religious minority community’s demand for protection from sectarian attacks, and an ethno-nationalist mobilisation for post-conflict security and greater rights. All our cases of contention are […]

Journal article

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

25/11/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on agency and citizenship from the point of view of Bangladeshi immigrant women who have been living in UK for the last two generations. They have a transnational identity, living between two cultures, which often have contradictory elements. On the one hand, these women identify themselves as British citizens: a status which […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

03/11/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

Keywords

Overview

Malawian women lead their communities as democratic representatives, by participating with men in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Contemporary formal state politics is constructed as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking to explore reasons why this is the […]

Briefing note

Ending Violence Against Women: The case for a comprehensive international action plan

22/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

What progress has been made towards ending violence against women worldwide? Violence against women is a violation of human rights, a barrier to women’s active citizenship, and a fundamental constraint to the eradication of poverty. When governments meet at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2013 their commitment is urgently needed […]

Journal article

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

01/02/1995

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

Keywords

Overview

The women’s media network Fempress unites feminists and academics through: a monthly Latin American magazine; a Press Service on women’s issues; and a Radio Press Service across Latin America. Santa Cruz shows how these goals were achieved, from Fempress’s modest start drawing together a small, disparate women’s movement. Fempress’s founding aim of unity through communication […]

Journal article

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

01/02/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

This article charts the history of the Yugoslav women’s movement to the present day. The previously strong women’s movement is now splitting along patriarchal nationalist lines. NGOs and women’s groups are multiplying. They support women and children affected by the conflict. Oxfam seeks to empower these groups by providing a space for them to develop […]

Journal article

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

14/11/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Recently the ‘demographic dividend’ has attracted attention from policymakers because of the promise it delivers for development. But it has attracted criticism for taking an instrumental approach to young people rather than focusing on equality and rights. A similar critique has come from feminists evaluating livelihoods programming focusing on women’s ‘economic empowerment’. In this article, […]

Journal article

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

12/12/2023

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

Keywords

Overview

Institutional strengthening, securitisation, free market promotion, and development policy implementation are foundational elements of liberal peace. However, the creation of an inferior colonisable other sustains this link and has justified programmes of violent repression and silencing. Decolonial, post-liberal, localised, and feminist peace-building stances condemn those power structures and promote alternative means of achieving well-being and […]

Journal article

Transitions and boundaries: research into the impact of paid work on young women’s lives in Jordan

01/07/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transitions and boundaries: research into the impact of paid work on young women’s lives in Jordan

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores the economic and social impact of the growing participation of young urban women in the workforce in Amman, Jordan. The writer argues that there is a new ‘stage’ in women’s life-course in Jordan: single, employed adulthood. This is expanding young women’s horizons, and challenging relationships between women and men, and between different […]

Journal article

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

Keywords

Overview

Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

Journal article

Women and protest politics in Pakistan

07/12/2021

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and protest politics in Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on qualitative research on five different gendered contentions in Pakistan: a feminist mobilisation, a protest against child sexual abuse, a workers’ mobilisation for greater employment benefits, an ethno-religious minority community’s demand for protection from sectarian attacks, and an ethno-nationalist mobilisation for post-conflict security and greater rights. All our cases of contention are […]

Journal article

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

25/11/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on agency and citizenship from the point of view of Bangladeshi immigrant women who have been living in UK for the last two generations. They have a transnational identity, living between two cultures, which often have contradictory elements. On the one hand, these women identify themselves as British citizens: a status which […]