This year's World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development, published by the World Bank, argues that gender equality is a core development objective in its own right. It is also smart economics. Greater gender equality can enhance productivity, improve development outcomes for the next generation, and make institutions more representative. The Report also focuses on four >> Read more
Event (DC): Outgrowing the Gender Gap in Competitiveness
Jeffrey Flory (University of Maryland) Kenneth Leonard (University of Maryland) John List (University of Chicago) Presented by Kenneth Leonard Wednesday, September 14, 2011 World Bank Room MC3-570, from 12:30 to 2:00 PM Several studies show consistent results that men and women have different preferences for selecting into competitive environments. A few recent studies have qualified >> Read more
New website on gender and agriculture launches
Access it here:- www.genderinag.org.
Event: Transforming Agricultural Development and Production in Africa: Closing Gender Gaps in Policy and Practice 13 Nov – 17 Nov, 2011
The Salzburg Global Seminar, in cooperation with the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development with support from the Belgian Fund for Food Security, is hosting a special "Dialogue for Action" to identify successful and innovative actions that accelerate rural agricultural development in Africa by empowering and investing in women. For more information and details, please >> Read more
News: Ghana: Group Puts Women’s Inheritance Rights Under Spotlight
Source: AllAfrica 03/08/2011 The right of women to inherit their deceased husbands is one that has faced great resistance from adherents of traditional customs and some religious sects in most African societies, and therefore requiring concerted efforts to bring about the needed change that will recognise women as equal partners in relationships, with inalienable right >> Read more
Event (DC): Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law
The Middle East Program, Africa Program, and Environmental Change and Security Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center present a book launch Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law with Margot Badran Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Senior Fellow, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, Georgetown University Gender and Islam >> Read more
Publication: Two Faces of Change: The Need for a Bi-Directional Approach to Improve Women’s Land Rights in Plural Legal Systems
Source: IDLO Enhancing legal empowerment through engagement with customary justice systems, Working Paper Series Summary: Includes the elusive path to development; land rights in plural legal systems – customary land law, law reform as a mechanism for change, current challenges in using formal law to promote change, country case studies in Mozambique and Tanzania; research-based >> Read more
Multimedia: Gender and ICT
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Event (DC): Digging Deeper: Water, Women, and Conflict
Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of Digging Deeper: Water, Women, and Conflict featuring Carla Koppell, Senior Coordinator, Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, USAID Sandra Ruckstuhl, Senior Social Scientist, Group W Inc. Dennis Warner, Senior Technical Advisor for Water and Sanitation, Catholic Relief Services Monday, August >> Read more
Employment: The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
GENDER EQUALITY EXPERT: Ref: FARA/GEE/adv/2011-001 FARA is seeking to recruit a gender equality expert to provide technical support, lead and facilitate the process of gender equality mainstreaming at the FARA Secretariat and among its constituents as well as within FARA programmes. The aim is to have a clear gender equality mainstreaming strategy that shall be >> Read more
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