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Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

31/08/2022

31 pages long

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Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

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India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), in the last 15 years, has evolved as the world’s largest employer of the last resort. This social protection, specifically designed as a demand-driven automatic employment stabiliser to enable households to cope with livelihood shocks, offers 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to all […]

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New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

07/12/2022

18 pages long

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New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

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This paper aims to understand how women’s work tends to be particularly affected by the new wave of Industry 4.0 technologies in Brazil and how public policies could actuate to reduce work gender inequalities throughout this process. We examine the 20 largest occupations for women and cross-check with estimates of automation for the Brazilian labour […]

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Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

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Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

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Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

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Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

Keywords

Overview

Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

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Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

Keywords

Overview

Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

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Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

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Overview

Historians have often highlighted the centrality of bazaars and the streets in urban public life in India as a space for politics and mobilisation. Historically, these bazaars and streets have been the domain of men, while spaces created by dominant urban planning logics like sequestered parks and enclosed marketplaces are marked by exclusion across various […]

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‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

19/09/2024

21 pages long

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‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

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Public space and youth

Overview

This paper addresses girls and young women’s experiences of spatial forms of judgement in the public spaces of their local areas. It posits the feminist question: what is the relationship between judgement, gender, youth, and the material realities that make up the public realm? Findings are derived from two seven-week long peer research projects on public space […]

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Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

08/05/2025

24 pages long

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Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

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Overview

This article explores the gendered experiences of, and responses to, processes of water commodification and scarcity in rural areas of the Toltén River in southern Chile through a decolonial lens. Within the framework of neoliberal water governance, water use rights are primarily owned by large-scale agribusiness and industrial companies, leading to significant socioecological conflicts (dispossession, […]

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She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

08/05/2025

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

Keywords

Overview

Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control […]

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Leadership dynamics in health: a social network analysis of men and women leaders in RMNCAH-N and immunisation in sub-Saharan Africa

18/09/2025

26 pages long

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Leadership dynamics in health: a social network analysis of men and women leaders in RMNCAH-N and immunisation in sub-Saharan Africa

Keywords

Overview

Social networks are a critical asset for leaders and can help facilitate collaborations, mentorship, and enhance visibility. However, women face unique challenges accessing and leveraging networks for change. As part of a larger mixed-methods study, we conducted a social network analysis (SNA) among leaders in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

31/08/2022

31 pages long

Free access through journal website

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

Keywords

Overview

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), in the last 15 years, has evolved as the world’s largest employer of the last resort. This social protection, specifically designed as a demand-driven automatic employment stabiliser to enable households to cope with livelihood shocks, offers 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to all […]

Journal article

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

07/12/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

Keywords

Overview

This paper aims to understand how women’s work tends to be particularly affected by the new wave of Industry 4.0 technologies in Brazil and how public policies could actuate to reduce work gender inequalities throughout this process. We examine the 20 largest occupations for women and cross-check with estimates of automation for the Brazilian labour […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Journal article

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

Keywords

Overview

Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

Journal article

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

Keywords

Overview

Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

Journal article

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

Keywords

Overview

Historians have often highlighted the centrality of bazaars and the streets in urban public life in India as a space for politics and mobilisation. Historically, these bazaars and streets have been the domain of men, while spaces created by dominant urban planning logics like sequestered parks and enclosed marketplaces are marked by exclusion across various […]

Journal article

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

19/09/2024

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

Keywords

Public space and youth

Overview

This paper addresses girls and young women’s experiences of spatial forms of judgement in the public spaces of their local areas. It posits the feminist question: what is the relationship between judgement, gender, youth, and the material realities that make up the public realm? Findings are derived from two seven-week long peer research projects on public space […]

Journal article

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

08/05/2025

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the gendered experiences of, and responses to, processes of water commodification and scarcity in rural areas of the Toltén River in southern Chile through a decolonial lens. Within the framework of neoliberal water governance, water use rights are primarily owned by large-scale agribusiness and industrial companies, leading to significant socioecological conflicts (dispossession, […]

Journal article

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

08/05/2025

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

Keywords

Overview

Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control […]

Journal article

Leadership dynamics in health: a social network analysis of men and women leaders in RMNCAH-N and immunisation in sub-Saharan Africa

18/09/2025

26 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leadership dynamics in health: a social network analysis of men and women leaders in RMNCAH-N and immunisation in sub-Saharan Africa

Keywords

Overview

Social networks are a critical asset for leaders and can help facilitate collaborations, mentorship, and enhance visibility. However, women face unique challenges accessing and leveraging networks for change. As part of a larger mixed-methods study, we conducted a social network analysis (SNA) among leaders in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

31/08/2022

31 pages long

Free access through journal website

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

Keywords

Overview

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), in the last 15 years, has evolved as the world’s largest employer of the last resort. This social protection, specifically designed as a demand-driven automatic employment stabiliser to enable households to cope with livelihood shocks, offers 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to all […]

Journal article

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

07/12/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

Keywords

Overview

This paper aims to understand how women’s work tends to be particularly affected by the new wave of Industry 4.0 technologies in Brazil and how public policies could actuate to reduce work gender inequalities throughout this process. We examine the 20 largest occupations for women and cross-check with estimates of automation for the Brazilian labour […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Journal article

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

Keywords

Overview

Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

Journal article

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

Keywords

Overview

Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

Journal article

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

Keywords

Overview

Historians have often highlighted the centrality of bazaars and the streets in urban public life in India as a space for politics and mobilisation. Historically, these bazaars and streets have been the domain of men, while spaces created by dominant urban planning logics like sequestered parks and enclosed marketplaces are marked by exclusion across various […]

Journal article

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

19/09/2024

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

Keywords

Public space and youth

Overview

This paper addresses girls and young women’s experiences of spatial forms of judgement in the public spaces of their local areas. It posits the feminist question: what is the relationship between judgement, gender, youth, and the material realities that make up the public realm? Findings are derived from two seven-week long peer research projects on public space […]

Journal article

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

08/05/2025

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the gendered experiences of, and responses to, processes of water commodification and scarcity in rural areas of the Toltén River in southern Chile through a decolonial lens. Within the framework of neoliberal water governance, water use rights are primarily owned by large-scale agribusiness and industrial companies, leading to significant socioecological conflicts (dispossession, […]

Journal article

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

08/05/2025

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

Keywords

Overview

Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control […]

Journal article

Leadership dynamics in health: a social network analysis of men and women leaders in RMNCAH-N and immunisation in sub-Saharan Africa

18/09/2025

26 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leadership dynamics in health: a social network analysis of men and women leaders in RMNCAH-N and immunisation in sub-Saharan Africa

Keywords

Overview

Social networks are a critical asset for leaders and can help facilitate collaborations, mentorship, and enhance visibility. However, women face unique challenges accessing and leveraging networks for change. As part of a larger mixed-methods study, we conducted a social network analysis (SNA) among leaders in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) […]