Siyanda Update: Gender and Economic Empowerment, Issue No. 61, December 2007 / January 2008
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In This Issue:
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I. Special Feature: New BRIDGE annotated bibliography 'Putting Gender Back in the Picture: Rethinking Women's Economic Empowerment'
II. Quick Guide: Gender and Economic Empowerment
III. Country Focus: Chinese Resources and Websites
IV. Experts' and Consultants' Database: gender practitioners who have written on gender and economic empowerment issues
V. Latest Additions: including a methodological guide to empowerment, AusAID's policy document on gender, and an evaluation of the Stepping Stones programme.
VI. Contribute section: share news, resources, opportunities and perspectives
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I. Special Feature: New BRIDGE annotated bibliography 'Putting Gender Back in the Picture: Rethinking Women's Economic Empowerment'
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Current momentum around women's economic empowerment offers huge scope for bringing about real changes in women's lives. But earning an income or having access to credit cannot be assumed to bring automatic benefits for women. What of the terms on which women gain access to resources - are these empowering or exploitative? And what are the impacts of women's greater access to resources on gender relations and norms more broadly?
This overview and annotated bibliography highlights those critical issues and voices that dominant economic empowerment debates ignore. It promotes a nuanced understanding of the gendered barriers that can prevent women from benefiting from economic opportunities. A practical starting point for overcoming some of these barriers is to tackle the 'double burden' of paid work and care work that is shouldered by so many women.
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/bibliographies.htm
II. Quick Guide: Gender and Economic Empowerment
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The following resources have been selected from almost 60 which have been summarised as part of the annotated bibliography highlighted above:
- Marriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy: Reconfiguration of Personal and Economic Life, Institute of Development Studies, November 2007
This paper explores how women and men are dealing with the feminisation of labour markets in the face of the widespread prevalence of the idea of the man as 'breadwinner' and the apparent threat to male authority represented by women's earnings.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Kabeer_marriage_motherhood.htm?em=0712&tag=QG
- The Political and Social Economy of Care in a Development Context: Conceptual Issues, Research Questions and Policy Options, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), June 2007
This paper traces the evolution of ideas in the area of gender and care, and analyses some of the main strands of thinking that have contributed to this ongoing debate.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Razavi_care.htm?em=0712&tag=QG
- Gender and Economic Empowerment in Africa, 8th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum, Berlin, Germany, 22-23 May 2007, Africa Partnership Forum, May 2007
What are the major obstacles to the empowerment of women in Africa?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/APF_Economic_Empowerment.htm?em=0712&tag=QG
- Equality at Work: Tackling the Challenges. Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration (in English, French, Spanish and by email in German, Arabic, Chinese and Russian), International Labour Organization (ILO), January 2007
This is the second Global Report on discrimination under the follow-up to ILO's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. The report examines emerging issues in patterns of workplace discrimination and inequalities, presents recent policy responses, and outlines the ILO's experience and achievements to date and the challenges it faces.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ILO_equality_at_work.htm?em=0712&tag=QG
- Fair and Unfair Competition: the EU-China Trade Race and its Gender Implications, Women in Development Europe (WIDE), January 2007
To what extent has China's rapid transformation from a state-led to a market-oriented economy been achieved at the price of a growing gender gap in wages and promotional opportunities?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Wichterich_competition.htm?em=0712&tag=QG
You can find additional resources related to gender and economic empowerment in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=empowerment07&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0712&tag=QG
Financing for Gender Equality will be the next Quick Guide theme, in February 2008. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0712&tag=CS
Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm?em=0712&tag=QG
III. Country Focus: Chinese Resources and Websites
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The following selection has been produced from almost 40 resources added to the Siyanda database, each of which is summarised in both English and Chinese. They are also available in the following BRIDGE reports:
:- Twenty Key Chinese Resources on Gender and Development, Feng Yuan, 2005
:- Twenty Key Chinese Websites on Gender and Development, Feng Yuan, 2005
See: http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/non-english.htm#chinese
- Website: Stop Domestic Violence Network (in Chinese)
This website belongs to the Network / Research Centre for Combating Domestic Violence of the China Law Society. The Network pushes for legal reform on domestic violence through research, intervention, and media.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Stop_Domestic_Violence_Network.htm?em=0712&tag=CF
- Website: Gender and Public Policy (in Chinese)
This website aims to analyse law and policy to dig out gender bias, and promote gender sensitive policy, and a win-win relationship between gender equality and balanced development.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Gender_and_Public_Policy.htm?em=0712&tag=CF
- My Life (in Chinese), Zi Teng (Sex Worker's Organisation), November 2005
Sex workers are usually the object of other people's prying, but this book presents sex workers' own points of view.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Teng_my_life.htm?em=0712&tag=CF
- 76.8% of the Sky: Gender, Poverty and Development in Hong Kong (in Chinese), Oxfam Hong Kong, January 2005
This book discusses women's poverty and development in Hong Kong with gender-disaggregated statistics and case studies and concludes that women are ignored by policy.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/oxfam_sky.htm?em=0712&tag=CF
- A Practical Manual on Rural Women's Participation in the Elections for Village Committees (in Chinese), Ministry of Civil Affairs Department of Local Authority and Community Building (ed.), January 2004
This Practical Manual on rural women's participation in the elections for village committees in Beijing describes operational methods to encourage women to prepare for elections and to participate in the election process.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/China_Society_elections.htm?em=0712&tag=CF
You can find additional resources on China in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=china&em=0712&tag=CF
and network with experts and practitioners who are working in the region:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=china&em=0712&tag=CF
In the February 2008 Siyanda Update we will focus on resources about Kosovo. Users are invited to suggest resources on this country for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0712&tag=CS
Please also visit the Country Focus archive section:
http://www.siyanda.org/country_focus.htm?em=0712&tag=CF
IV. Resources from the Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work from Siyanda Experts working on gender and economic empowerment.
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The Experts' and Consultants' Database contains names, contact details and areas of expertise of people working on gender specific issues worldwide, and includes some of their publications. The following resources have been selected from experts who have expertise in economic empowerment issues:
- Gender in Crisis Response - a Guide to the Gender; Employment and Poverty Link, Tutnjevic-Gorman, T., 2003
- Gender Equality and Trade-Related Capacity Building: A Resource Tool for Practitioners, Hershkovitz, L., 2003
- Sustainable Learning for Women's Empowerment: Ways Forward in Micro-finance, Mayoux, L., 2003
- Recasting our Understanding of Gender and Work during Global Restructuring, Pyle, J., 2003
- Les mécanismes de l´exclusion des domestiques au Maroc et leurs réponses (Mechanisms of Exclusion of Domestic Workers in Morocco and their Coping Strategies), Schneider, K., 1997
- Women in Construction - Case Studies from Zimbabwe, Mutubuki, C., no date
For further details on these publications, copy and paste or type the author's last name into either the Name or Search Words field on the Experts' and Consultants' search page:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/?em=0712&tag=EX
The Siyanda Gender Experts' and Consultants' Database, with over 1250 profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting practitioners, researchers, activists, students and experts with like-minded colleagues, persons working on similar themes, or in the same geographical location.
- Enter your details in the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm?em=0712&tag=EX
- Or edit your existing profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm?em=0712&tag=EX (using your user name and password)
The database is also an excellent resource for those seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies.
- Search the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/?em=0712&tag=EX
V. Other New Resources in Siyanda:
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- Women's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean (in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese), Montaño, S. et al., August 2007
- The Women Empowerment Approach: a Methodological Guide (in English, French, Dutch and Spanish), Charlier, S. & Caubergs, L., June 2007
- Gender Equality in Australia's Aid Program - Why and How, Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), March 2007
- Evaluation of Stepping Stones: A Gender Transformative HIV Prevention Intervention, Jewkes, R., Nduna, M. Levin, J. and Jama, N., March 2007
- Gender Bias and Central Bank Policy: Employment and Inflation Reduction, Heinz, J. and Braunstein, E., July 2006
You can locate more new resources added to the Siyanda Database here: http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm?em=0712&tag=LA, or through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/?em=0712&tag=SS (copy and paste the title without characters such as ":" ";" and "-" or copy and paste the author's last name into the Search box).
VII. Contribute section
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Share your news, resources, opportunities and perspectives in the following ways:
Post your announcements, information requests, training and funding opportunities:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/?em=0712&tag=CS
Submit your publications for inclusion in our database, or suggest other resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0712&tag=CS
Post your short pieces of work in the Users' Corner:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635&em=0712&tag=CS
(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team members. This update was edited by Adrian Bannister)
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Adrian Bannister
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BRIDGE - Gender and Development
The Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
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