The Bangladeshi campaigner for lifting women out of poverty says village life has been wrongly idealised. It is not a harmonious whole with the elders looking after the interests of all the villagers alike, without prejudices of class or gender. Things are improving for women and girls, she says, but there is a long way >> Read more
News: United Nations Report Focuses on Global Lot of Women
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR (NYT) Women have made progress in areas like health and education, but they still lag over all, according to the U.N. report, World’s Women 2010. read more
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Publication: Farmers in a changing climate–does gender matter?
This report presents the findings of research undertaken in six villages in two drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. The study, carried out by an international team led by FAO, used gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document the trends in more...
Event (DC): World Bank Africa’s Chief Economist, Shanta Devarajan, launches “Gender Disparities in Africa’s Labor Markets”
Monday, November 1 at 12pm in J1-050 To RSVP, email infoshopevents@worldbank.org or click here. MODERATOR: Shanta Devarajan Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in >> Read more
News: Rural Haitian Women Organize for Food Sovereignty and More
"If we rural women can organize ourselves together to form a bloc, we could accomplish a lot of things," says Yvette Michaud, founder of the National Coordinating Committee of Peasant Women (KONAFAP by its Creole acronym). The committee is a first-ever effort to unite, on a national basis, the voices and interests of this large >> Read more
Resource: Presentations from Inheritance and the intergenerational transmission of poverty event at ODI
Workshop hosted by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and Overseas Development Institute. Asset ownership supports social mobility. It influences a person’s ability to move out of poverty, underpins household livelihoods and supports coping strategies and investment. Land is the most important asset in low income developing countries and most people gain access to land through >> Read more
Multimedia: MDG 3 and Liberia
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Publication: Global Gender Gap Report 2010
The Global Gender Gap Report 2010 According to the report’s index, the level of gender equality in France (46) has sunk as the number of women in ministerial positions has fallen over the past 12 months. The United States (19) closed its gender gap, rising 12 places to enter the top 20 for the first time >> Read more
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