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Growth and economic opportunities for women: literature review to inform the DFID-IDRC-Hewlett Foundation research program on women's economic empowerment, gender equality and growth in low income countries
This is a background paper for a new research programme on women's economic empowerment. It is a comprehensive literature review on the state of the field. Section 1 briefly discusses the global evidence on existing gender disparities in employment, wages, business opportunities, and the care economy. Sections 2, 3 and 4 describe the existing knowledge in the programme's central themes - constraints to women's economic empowerment, and the links between economic empowerment and growth - followed by research gaps and questions
Leaving no one behind: Supporting women, poor people, and indigenous people in wheat-maize innovations in Bangladesh
This guidance note for scientists and research teams acknowledges the complexity of marginalization processes and provides recommendations for making sure no one is left behind. It draws on GENNOVATE findings from a community in Bangladesh where the indigenous Santals, Bengali Muslims, and Hindus live and work together
Spatiotemporal switching signals for cancer stem cell activation in pediatric origins of adulthood cancer: Towards a watch-and-wait lifetime strategy for cancer treatment.
Pediatric origin of cancer stem cell hypothesis holds great promise and potential in adult cancer treatment, however; the road to innovation is full of obstacles as there are plenty of questions left unanswered. First, the key question is to characterize the nature of such stem cells (concept). Second, the quantitative imaging of pediatric stem cells should be implemented (technology). Conceptually, pediatric stem cell origins of adult cancer are based on the notion that plasticity in early life developmental programming evolves local environments to cancer. Technologically, such imaging in children is lacking as all imaging is designed for adult patients. We postulate that the need for quantitative imaging to measure space-time changes of plasticity in early life developmental programming in children may trigger research and development of the imaging technology. Such quantitative imaging of pediatric origin of adulthood cancer will help develop a spatiotemporal monitoring system to determine cancer initiation and progression. Clinical validation of such speculative hypothesis-that cancer originates in a pediatric environment-will help implement a wait-and-watch strategy for cancer treatment
Divorced, separated and widowed female workers in rural Mozambique
Compared to other rural women, a high proportion of female wageworkers in rural Mozambique are divorced, separated or widowed. The paper explores the factors underlying this difference and establishes a significant relationship between labor market participation and female divorce or widowhood. The association is likely to work in both directions. Moreover, contrastive exploration suggests that divorced/separated women differ from non-divorced women in many other important respects: They tend to get access to better jobs; also, divorced and separated mothers are remarkably good at investing in their daughtersâ education compared to other mothers and to male respondents. The paper concludes by stressing the limits of regression techniques in teasing out causation and the interactions between variables, and by suggesting that policies to increase female access to decently remunerated wage employment could make a substantial difference to the welfare of very poor rural women in Africa and their children
Key Feminist Concerns Regarding Core Labor Standards, Decent Work, and Corporate Social Responsibility
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.CCC_Key_Feminist_Concerns.pdf: 402 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Gender Equality and Human Development: The Instrumental Rationale
human development, aid, trade, security
Gender, Power and Property: âIn my own rightâ
working paperWomen on farms in Ireland are a subject of feminist analysis for five
decades. Salient themes are the constraints of patriarchal agriculture
(O'Hara 1997; Shortall, 2004), the invisibility of women's farm work
(Viney 1968; OâHara 1998), gender inequalities in ownership of farm
assets (Watson et al. 2009) and increasing professionalisation of
farmwomen outside of agriculture (Kelly and Shortall 2002; Hanrahan
2007). Most women enter farming through marriage and family ties.
Land ownership is identified by Shortall (2004) as the critical factor
underpinning male domination of the occupational category âfarmerâ
and considerable power differentials between men and women in
family farming. This is an area that requires further investigation. Our
analysis, framed by theoretical models of feminisation and
empowerment, explores cases where male farm property ownership
in Ireland is disrupted in conventional and non-conventional
agricultural settings. Do these cases provide evidence of new
opportunities for women to become farm property owners, and in
what contexts? What consequences do these opportunities have for
farmwomenâs empowerment and agency? How does womenâs farm
property ownership disturb rural gender relations in the context of
the family farm?Teagasc Walsh Fellowship Programm
Women's Economic Empowerment: Key Issues and Policy Options
The central argument of the paper is organised around the limits to markets as a means of overcoming ?durable inequalities' which reflect long-established power relations and the need for public action by states and civil society to address these underlying causes. The paper sketches out a number of areas where policies could make a difference, including a difference on the terms on which women can participate in, contribute to and benefit from processes of economic growth. In addition, the paper suggests a number of cross-cutting interventions which would promote the effectiveness of each of these areas: the importance of collective capabilities to promote women's participation in civil society and politics; research and information to track progress; and financial resources necessary to achieve this progress
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