Published in Lancet (London, England)
Following the closure of UN-supported widows' bakeries in Kabul, Afghanistan, Taliban authorities announced that they would allow 360 female employees to return to work. This invalidation is in line with the decree that bans women from working for UN agencies and international nongovernmental organizations except in the health sector. Although no e...
Published in Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners
Humans are vulnerable to poverty in many ways, especially women. Poor people do not necessarily benefit from the way markets are managed, and women are experiencing particular barriers in making their independent living, such as low salary and access to fewer assets. In view of the above, Oxfam recognizes that in order for poor men and women to ach...
Published in Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners
Informal ways of working are widespread and central to the economy and markets. This paper explores what informal economy is and how it could be more valuable for men and women. The informal economy is a mix of the following activities: 1) subsistence work which includes agriculture, marginal economic projects, and unpaid work in the home; 2) infor...
Published in Gender and development
This article describes the aims, methods, materials and topics used in a participatory workshop created by Alternative Women in Development. The organization aims to bridge the gaps in analyzing human rights and economic justice in both North and South from a feminist perspective through a workshop. This workshop considers the varied roles that wom...
Published in Gender, technology and development
Literate but unskilled--and largely female--labor has thus far fueled the tremendous increase in manufactured exports of garments and microelectronic products from the Third World to the industrially advanced economies of the North. The future growth of these sectors, however, may require literate and skilled workers--a category in which women are ...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
This study presents and tests a new conceptualization of the relationship between the type of social environment in which women work and their fertility and contraceptive use using data from three separate studies conducted in Maputo, Mozambique, in 1993. Studies demonstrated that women who work in more collectivized environments are associated wit...
Published in Gender, technology and development
Like many national statistical surveys, the Agricultural Census of Nepal does not reflect the actual contribution of women's work in agriculture. Inadequacies in conceptualization, definition of terms and data gathering methods result in undervaluation and underrepresentation of women's work. This study of 124 Newar households in the Lubhu Village ...
Published in Indian journal of gender studies
This paper examines the impact of structural adjustment and the changing nature of women's work in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It is noted that more than two-thirds of the developing countries have adopted structural adjustment policy packages as an answer to the economic crisis they are facing. Such an adjustment is a conscious change in...
Published in Gender, technology and development
This paper presents the preliminary results of a study by the Gender Working Group, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, on women's contribution to, and benefits to women from, science, engineering and technology (SET), specifically the benefits accruing to disadvantaged women in urban and rural areas in Indonesia. Previous studies on the participatio...
Published in Gender issues
In this article the author examines gender differences in the effect of family migration on socioeconomic attainment in Malaysia. The analysis discerns the relative importance of gender roles in household migration decisions, compared to gender stratification in the labor market. The Malaysian economy has undergone rapid industrialization and great...
