In time for the UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals 2010, UNIFEM (part of UN Women), in collaboration with UNTV, has produced a series of five videos highlighting select MDGs from a gender perspective. Introduced by internationally renowned TV journalist Daljit Dhaliwal, all videos are now available for download in English, French, Spanish and >> Read more
Event (Uganda) Learning Route: Gender and rural microfinance – New approaches, services and products in Africa
Uganda, March 12th to 20th. Organized by FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the PROCASUR Corporation. In the framework of the Regional Capacity-building and Knowledge Management for Gender Equality Programme, FAOIFAD and PROCASUR launch the Learning Route: Gender and rural microfinance – New approaches, services and products in Africa, a practitioner-to-practitioner training >> Read more
Event (DC): On the Origins of Gender Roles–Women and the Plough
Alberto Alesina (Harvard University) Paola Giuliano (UCLA) Nathan Nunn (Harvard University) Wednesday, Jan 18, 2010 World Bank Room MC3-570, from 12:30 to 2:00 PM Female labor force participation can be influenced by persistent differences in cultural norms about the perception of women in society. We empirically examine where these differences come from. Central to >> Read more
Publication: Journal of Development Studies Special Section on Assets and Gender
Women's Property Rights and Gendered Policies: Implications for Women's Long-term Welfare in Rural Tanzania Amber Peterman Tenure Insecurity, Gender, Low-cost Land Certification and Land Rental Market Participation in Ethiopia Stein T. Holden; Klaus Deininger; Hosaena Ghebru How Access to Credit Affects Self-employment: Differences by Gender during India's Rural Banking Reform Nidhiya Menon; Yana van der Meulen Rodgers For >> Read more
Resource: Platform Policy Brief on Gender & Agriculture
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Publication: The Global Gender Gap Report 2010
The Global Gender Gap Index was created with the specific purpose of being comparable across time. The 2010 Report aggregates five years of data and seeks to reveal country progress in a transparent manner. By doing this, we hope this Report will serve as a call to action to the international more...
News: MALAWI–Women Claim Equal Share of Family Property
Collins Mtika MZUZU, Malawi, Dec 29 - Seated on a wooden bench at her Katoto township house in Mzuzu, Grace Mkandawire’s face reflects the traumatic experiences she has endured since her husband’s death in 1998. She looks lost and confused and as she narrates her story there is fear, hatred and resignation that Malawi’s Marital >> Read more
Publication: Climate change and gender: economic empowerment of women through climate mitigation and adaptation?
The discourse on climate change does not pay adequate attention towomen, either at the local project level or in international negotiations.Women are unable to voice their specific requirements even though theimpact of climate change affects women and men differently. In severalrural areas of the more...
Event: 2011 GLOBAL SUMMIT OF WOMEN
Istanbul Turkey May 5-7, 2011 The Global Summit of Women was conceived as the nexus at which all sectors – public, private and nonprofit – would come together under the common vision of dramatically expanding women’s economic opportunities globally through exchanges of working solutions and creative strategies forged by women leaders in different parts of >> Read more
Publication: Asset Dynamics in Northern Nigeria
This paper examines household asset dynamics and gender-differentiated asset inequality over a 20-year period (1988–2008) in northern Nigeria. We show that the initial endowments of both household capital and livestock holdings are inconsistent with the poverty trap hypothesis but that tracking rules for households in panel surveys may lead to differences in empirical results on >> Read more
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