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Briefing paper

Valuing Women’s Work: A framework for business on gender equality and decent work

21/11/2023

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Our strategic focus, Valuing Women’s Work (VWW), aims to redefine what ‘work’ means so that all the work women do – paid and unpaid – can truly be valued. This first briefing from the forthcoming series, Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work, is an overview and introduces some of the issues we will be […]

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 […]

Journal article

How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

11/07/2019

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

Keywords

Overview

Northern Uganda received significant international attention during and immediately after the conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, in which over 20,000 women and children were abducted and trafficked. However, globally there has been little investigation into the long-term impacts on formerly abducted women in post-conflict reconstruction, or on their own […]

Journal article

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

01/02/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the experiences of women occupying reserved seats on the suku councils of Timor-Leste (each of which represents a number of small villages). The limited political participation of these women is often ascribed to patriarchal ideas within rural areas, and the need for capacity development. This article argues, however, that there are further […]

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

Women’s health and feminist politics

01/06/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s health and feminist politics

Keywords

Overview

SOF is an NGO working to raise living standards and gain health and reproductive rights for poor women in south-eastern Brazil. Faure charts SOF’s progress from a family planning to a feminist organisation. It works alongside women’s and health movements and has achieved considerable success, instigating change in health infrastructures and policies, and integrating women […]

Journal article

Sustainable development: women as partners

01/02/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sustainable development: women as partners

Keywords

Overview

Dem explores how Oxfam’s work in rural areas can adapt its approach to meet the needs of urban women. She uses the example of Senegal’s economic crisis of the 1980s that plunged many women in urban areas into poverty. Sustainable development in this case meant women organising themselves and working together to actively determine their […]

Journal article

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

In August 2005, a campaign was initiated in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, to obtain government land for landless families. Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), a grassroots collective of rural women, supported women’s land and property rights in the context of the campaign. In this article, we assess the impact of this campaign on women in […]

Evaluation report

The Politics of Our Lives: The Raising Her Voice in Pakistan Experience

04/07/2013

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

How can we change the power dynamics that exclude women from decision making? How can the barriers that prevent women from exercising their rights as equals to lead, to propose and to call to account be overcome? Over the past five years, the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme set out to find practical answers to […]

Journal article

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

Keywords

Overview

Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Valuing Women’s Work: A framework for business on gender equality and decent work

21/11/2023

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Our strategic focus, Valuing Women’s Work (VWW), aims to redefine what ‘work’ means so that all the work women do – paid and unpaid – can truly be valued. This first briefing from the forthcoming series, Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work, is an overview and introduces some of the issues we will be […]

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 […]

Journal article

How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

11/07/2019

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

Keywords

Overview

Northern Uganda received significant international attention during and immediately after the conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, in which over 20,000 women and children were abducted and trafficked. However, globally there has been little investigation into the long-term impacts on formerly abducted women in post-conflict reconstruction, or on their own […]

Journal article

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

01/02/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the experiences of women occupying reserved seats on the suku councils of Timor-Leste (each of which represents a number of small villages). The limited political participation of these women is often ascribed to patriarchal ideas within rural areas, and the need for capacity development. This article argues, however, that there are further […]

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

Women’s health and feminist politics

01/06/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s health and feminist politics

Keywords

Overview

SOF is an NGO working to raise living standards and gain health and reproductive rights for poor women in south-eastern Brazil. Faure charts SOF’s progress from a family planning to a feminist organisation. It works alongside women’s and health movements and has achieved considerable success, instigating change in health infrastructures and policies, and integrating women […]

Journal article

Sustainable development: women as partners

01/02/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sustainable development: women as partners

Keywords

Overview

Dem explores how Oxfam’s work in rural areas can adapt its approach to meet the needs of urban women. She uses the example of Senegal’s economic crisis of the 1980s that plunged many women in urban areas into poverty. Sustainable development in this case meant women organising themselves and working together to actively determine their […]

Journal article

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

In August 2005, a campaign was initiated in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, to obtain government land for landless families. Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), a grassroots collective of rural women, supported women’s land and property rights in the context of the campaign. In this article, we assess the impact of this campaign on women in […]

Evaluation report

The Politics of Our Lives: The Raising Her Voice in Pakistan Experience

04/07/2013

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

How can we change the power dynamics that exclude women from decision making? How can the barriers that prevent women from exercising their rights as equals to lead, to propose and to call to account be overcome? Over the past five years, the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme set out to find practical answers to […]

Journal article

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

Keywords

Overview

Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Valuing Women’s Work: A framework for business on gender equality and decent work

21/11/2023

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Our strategic focus, Valuing Women’s Work (VWW), aims to redefine what ‘work’ means so that all the work women do – paid and unpaid – can truly be valued. This first briefing from the forthcoming series, Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work, is an overview and introduces some of the issues we will be […]

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 […]

Journal article

How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

11/07/2019

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

Keywords

Overview

Northern Uganda received significant international attention during and immediately after the conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, in which over 20,000 women and children were abducted and trafficked. However, globally there has been little investigation into the long-term impacts on formerly abducted women in post-conflict reconstruction, or on their own […]

Journal article

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

01/02/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the experiences of women occupying reserved seats on the suku councils of Timor-Leste (each of which represents a number of small villages). The limited political participation of these women is often ascribed to patriarchal ideas within rural areas, and the need for capacity development. This article argues, however, that there are further […]

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

Women’s health and feminist politics

01/06/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s health and feminist politics

Keywords

Overview

SOF is an NGO working to raise living standards and gain health and reproductive rights for poor women in south-eastern Brazil. Faure charts SOF’s progress from a family planning to a feminist organisation. It works alongside women’s and health movements and has achieved considerable success, instigating change in health infrastructures and policies, and integrating women […]

Journal article

Sustainable development: women as partners

01/02/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sustainable development: women as partners

Keywords

Overview

Dem explores how Oxfam’s work in rural areas can adapt its approach to meet the needs of urban women. She uses the example of Senegal’s economic crisis of the 1980s that plunged many women in urban areas into poverty. Sustainable development in this case meant women organising themselves and working together to actively determine their […]

Journal article

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

In August 2005, a campaign was initiated in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, to obtain government land for landless families. Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), a grassroots collective of rural women, supported women’s land and property rights in the context of the campaign. In this article, we assess the impact of this campaign on women in […]

Evaluation report

The Politics of Our Lives: The Raising Her Voice in Pakistan Experience

04/07/2013

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

How can we change the power dynamics that exclude women from decision making? How can the barriers that prevent women from exercising their rights as equals to lead, to propose and to call to account be overcome? Over the past five years, the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme set out to find practical answers to […]

Journal article

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

Keywords

Overview

Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]