Source: http://www.awid.org/eng/Women-in-Action/Calls-for-Participation2/Call-for-Participation-Networking-on-World-Bank-s-Gender-World-Development-Report-WDR
Event (DC): Passports to Progress ICRW’s 35th Anniversary Colloquy
Join ICRW as we kick off our 35th anniversary celebration on March 8, International Women’s Day, with a conversation about breakthrough innovations poised to transform the trajectory of women’s lives. Game-changing Innovations for Women Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Host, MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" Confirmed Speakers: Cherie Blair, Founder, Cherie Blair >> Read more
News: UN Agencies to launch new report on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas
Media Advisory no.: MA/01/11 Joint FAO/IFAD/ILO Media Advisory Rome, 19 January – Three United Nations agencies are to launch a ground-breaking study and a set of action-oriented policy briefs on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas here on 21 January. The findings have important implications for how economic and food price crises affect >> Read more
Publication: Does it Matter Whether Public Cash Transfers are Given to Women or Men? Evidence from the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO Programs in Rural Mexico
This paper aims at evaluating the impact of two different cash transfer programs in rural Mexico - Procampo and Progresa - on total consumption, food consumption and other outcomes like investment, schooling and health care. Progresa is targeted to women, while Procampo goes to farmers, mostly men and many of which are poor. We show >> Read more
Publication: How Do Women Weather Economic Shocks? What We Know
Authors: Shwetlena Sabarwal, Nistha Sinha, and Mayra Buvinic Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? First-round impacts of economic crises on women’s employment should be more prominent in this recent economic downturn than historically because of women’s increased participation in the globalized workforce. Second-round impacts result from the strategies that vulnerable households use to >> Read more
Article: “Parents Give Boys Preferential Treatment When There Is a Chronic Food Shortage”
In situations of chronic food shortage, parents are inclined to give boys a preferential treatment, despite the fact that the health of their daughters suffers more from food insecurity. This is shown by research from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Ethiopia, appearing in the journal Pediatrics. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110111132217.htm
Multimedia: UNIFEM releases video series on gender & the MDGs
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
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