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Moving the goalposts: gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century

01/03/2000

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Moving the goalposts: gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century

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Development institutions saw their work challenged by those working on gender and development in the last third of the twentieth century. Ruth Pearson argues that the new century will witness an assertion of the global relevance of gender in development, and see gender analysis applied in new contexts, and to men as well as women. […]

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Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming?

01/07/2005

13 pages long

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Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming?

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The Law of Popular Participation (LPP) in Bolivia can be seen as the first significant attempt by policy makers in the region to mainstream gender into a national development initiative. The LPP seeks to devolve power and resources from the national to the local level. It is the first Bolivian law to be explicitly couched […]

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Gender equality and women’s empowerment: a critical analysis of the third millennium development goal

01/03/2005

12 pages long

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Gender equality and women’s empowerment: a critical analysis of the third millennium development goal

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This article discusses the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It explores the concept of women’s empowerment and highlights ways in which the indicators associated with this Goal – on education, employment, and political participation – can contribute to it. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]

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Protocols, treaties, and action: the ‘climate change process’ viewed through gender spectacles

01/07/2002

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Protocols, treaties, and action: the ‘climate change process’ viewed through gender spectacles

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This paper starts by assessing the extent to which gender considerations have been taken into account in the international processes concerning the development of climate change policy. Finding that there has been very little attention to gender issues, neither in the protocols and treaties nor in the debates around them, the paper goes on to […]

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Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

01/07/2006

13 pages long

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Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Overview

Gender’ is a word that has become part of HIV/AIDS-related vocabulary and conceptual understanding. However, gender and development approaches understand it as denoting only two identities: male and female. Sexuality is likewise assumed to be heterosexuality. This thinking has informed HIV/AIDS prevention strategies worldwide, and the result is to exclude people who differ from these […]

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‘Measuring the unmeasurable’: gender mainstreaming and cultural change

07/11/2012

14 pages long

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‘Measuring the unmeasurable’: gender mainstreaming and cultural change

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In this article, Oxfam Novib presents part of the results of the implementation of the Measuring Milestones Initiative, which aimed to make visible deep changes related to gender equality in the structure and culture of development organisations and their programmes in the communities where they work. Some conclusions from 123 Most Significant Change stories are […]

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Writing gender in: reflections on writing middle-school political science textbooks in India

20/03/2014

13 pages long

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Writing gender in: reflections on writing middle-school political science textbooks in India

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Feminists regard schooling as a critical site where children are socialised to adopt gender-based identities, and where the process of internalisation of gender norms – begun within the home and community at the earliest stage of childhood – continues. This process makes gender identities, roles, and power relations appear ‘natural’ and normal. Within the realm […]

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Making the human development index (HDI) gender-sensitive

01/02/1997

2 pages long

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Making the human development index (HDI) gender-sensitive

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The Human Development Index (HDI) has become a widely used measure for understanding patterns of socio-economic development. This article argues that it could be greatly improved by incorporating sex-disaggregated data, to reveal the different socio-economic contributions and situations of men and women within each country. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]

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Gendering remittances in Albania: a human and social development perspective

01/03/2011

13 pages long

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Gendering remittances in Albania: a human and social development perspective

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Gender issues are of central importance to both migration and development. The study of migrant remittances has been at the heart of the fast-growing literature on migration and development. And yet, surprisingly, remittances and gender issues have rarely been brought together as a subject of inquiry. Based on recent research in south-east Albania, our paper […]

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Mainstreaming gender in conflict reduction: from challenge to opportunity

01/11/2004

9 pages long

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Mainstreaming gender in conflict reduction: from challenge to opportunity

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This paper draws on the author’s experience of leading the work of Oxfam GB on conflict reduction and attempting to mainstream a commitment to gender equality into it. It highlights the difficulties faced and reflects on what did and did not work along the way. Finally, the author draws out some wider lessons about leading […]

Showing 347 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Moving the goalposts: gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century

01/03/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Moving the goalposts: gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century

Keywords

Overview

Development institutions saw their work challenged by those working on gender and development in the last third of the twentieth century. Ruth Pearson argues that the new century will witness an assertion of the global relevance of gender in development, and see gender analysis applied in new contexts, and to men as well as women. […]

Journal article

Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming?

01/07/2005

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming?

Keywords

Overview

The Law of Popular Participation (LPP) in Bolivia can be seen as the first significant attempt by policy makers in the region to mainstream gender into a national development initiative. The LPP seeks to devolve power and resources from the national to the local level. It is the first Bolivian law to be explicitly couched […]

Journal article

Gender equality and women’s empowerment: a critical analysis of the third millennium development goal

01/03/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender equality and women’s empowerment: a critical analysis of the third millennium development goal

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It explores the concept of women’s empowerment and highlights ways in which the indicators associated with this Goal – on education, employment, and political participation – can contribute to it. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]

Journal article

Protocols, treaties, and action: the ‘climate change process’ viewed through gender spectacles

01/07/2002

10 pages long

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Protocols, treaties, and action: the ‘climate change process’ viewed through gender spectacles

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Overview

This paper starts by assessing the extent to which gender considerations have been taken into account in the international processes concerning the development of climate change policy. Finding that there has been very little attention to gender issues, neither in the protocols and treaties nor in the debates around them, the paper goes on to […]

Journal article

Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

01/07/2006

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

Gender’ is a word that has become part of HIV/AIDS-related vocabulary and conceptual understanding. However, gender and development approaches understand it as denoting only two identities: male and female. Sexuality is likewise assumed to be heterosexuality. This thinking has informed HIV/AIDS prevention strategies worldwide, and the result is to exclude people who differ from these […]

Journal article

‘Measuring the unmeasurable’: gender mainstreaming and cultural change

07/11/2012

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Measuring the unmeasurable’: gender mainstreaming and cultural change

Keywords

Overview

In this article, Oxfam Novib presents part of the results of the implementation of the Measuring Milestones Initiative, which aimed to make visible deep changes related to gender equality in the structure and culture of development organisations and their programmes in the communities where they work. Some conclusions from 123 Most Significant Change stories are […]

Journal article

Writing gender in: reflections on writing middle-school political science textbooks in India

20/03/2014

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Writing gender in: reflections on writing middle-school political science textbooks in India

Keywords

Overview

Feminists regard schooling as a critical site where children are socialised to adopt gender-based identities, and where the process of internalisation of gender norms – begun within the home and community at the earliest stage of childhood – continues. This process makes gender identities, roles, and power relations appear ‘natural’ and normal. Within the realm […]

Journal article

Making the human development index (HDI) gender-sensitive

01/02/1997

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Making the human development index (HDI) gender-sensitive

Keywords

Overview

The Human Development Index (HDI) has become a widely used measure for understanding patterns of socio-economic development. This article argues that it could be greatly improved by incorporating sex-disaggregated data, to reveal the different socio-economic contributions and situations of men and women within each country. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]

Journal article

Gendering remittances in Albania: a human and social development perspective

01/03/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendering remittances in Albania: a human and social development perspective

Keywords

Overview

Gender issues are of central importance to both migration and development. The study of migrant remittances has been at the heart of the fast-growing literature on migration and development. And yet, surprisingly, remittances and gender issues have rarely been brought together as a subject of inquiry. Based on recent research in south-east Albania, our paper […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming gender in conflict reduction: from challenge to opportunity

01/11/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming gender in conflict reduction: from challenge to opportunity

Keywords

Overview

This paper draws on the author’s experience of leading the work of Oxfam GB on conflict reduction and attempting to mainstream a commitment to gender equality into it. It highlights the difficulties faced and reflects on what did and did not work along the way. Finally, the author draws out some wider lessons about leading […]

Showing 347 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Moving the goalposts: gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century

01/03/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Moving the goalposts: gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century

Keywords

Overview

Development institutions saw their work challenged by those working on gender and development in the last third of the twentieth century. Ruth Pearson argues that the new century will witness an assertion of the global relevance of gender in development, and see gender analysis applied in new contexts, and to men as well as women. […]

Journal article

Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming?

01/07/2005

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming?

Keywords

Overview

The Law of Popular Participation (LPP) in Bolivia can be seen as the first significant attempt by policy makers in the region to mainstream gender into a national development initiative. The LPP seeks to devolve power and resources from the national to the local level. It is the first Bolivian law to be explicitly couched […]

Journal article

Gender equality and women’s empowerment: a critical analysis of the third millennium development goal

01/03/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender equality and women’s empowerment: a critical analysis of the third millennium development goal

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It explores the concept of women’s empowerment and highlights ways in which the indicators associated with this Goal – on education, employment, and political participation – can contribute to it. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]

Journal article

Protocols, treaties, and action: the ‘climate change process’ viewed through gender spectacles

01/07/2002

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Protocols, treaties, and action: the ‘climate change process’ viewed through gender spectacles

Keywords

Overview

This paper starts by assessing the extent to which gender considerations have been taken into account in the international processes concerning the development of climate change policy. Finding that there has been very little attention to gender issues, neither in the protocols and treaties nor in the debates around them, the paper goes on to […]

Journal article

Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

01/07/2006

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

Gender’ is a word that has become part of HIV/AIDS-related vocabulary and conceptual understanding. However, gender and development approaches understand it as denoting only two identities: male and female. Sexuality is likewise assumed to be heterosexuality. This thinking has informed HIV/AIDS prevention strategies worldwide, and the result is to exclude people who differ from these […]

Journal article

‘Measuring the unmeasurable’: gender mainstreaming and cultural change

07/11/2012

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Measuring the unmeasurable’: gender mainstreaming and cultural change

Keywords

Overview

In this article, Oxfam Novib presents part of the results of the implementation of the Measuring Milestones Initiative, which aimed to make visible deep changes related to gender equality in the structure and culture of development organisations and their programmes in the communities where they work. Some conclusions from 123 Most Significant Change stories are […]

Journal article

Writing gender in: reflections on writing middle-school political science textbooks in India

20/03/2014

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Writing gender in: reflections on writing middle-school political science textbooks in India

Keywords

Overview

Feminists regard schooling as a critical site where children are socialised to adopt gender-based identities, and where the process of internalisation of gender norms – begun within the home and community at the earliest stage of childhood – continues. This process makes gender identities, roles, and power relations appear ‘natural’ and normal. Within the realm […]

Journal article

Making the human development index (HDI) gender-sensitive

01/02/1997

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Making the human development index (HDI) gender-sensitive

Keywords

Overview

The Human Development Index (HDI) has become a widely used measure for understanding patterns of socio-economic development. This article argues that it could be greatly improved by incorporating sex-disaggregated data, to reveal the different socio-economic contributions and situations of men and women within each country. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]

Journal article

Gendering remittances in Albania: a human and social development perspective

01/03/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendering remittances in Albania: a human and social development perspective

Keywords

Overview

Gender issues are of central importance to both migration and development. The study of migrant remittances has been at the heart of the fast-growing literature on migration and development. And yet, surprisingly, remittances and gender issues have rarely been brought together as a subject of inquiry. Based on recent research in south-east Albania, our paper […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming gender in conflict reduction: from challenge to opportunity

01/11/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming gender in conflict reduction: from challenge to opportunity

Keywords

Overview

This paper draws on the author’s experience of leading the work of Oxfam GB on conflict reduction and attempting to mainstream a commitment to gender equality into it. It highlights the difficulties faced and reflects on what did and did not work along the way. Finally, the author draws out some wider lessons about leading […]