Gender equality--striving for justice in an unequal world.
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| Imprint: | Geneva, Switzerland : United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2005. |
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| Description: | xxxiv, 303 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6645712 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Overview
- Chapter 1. After Beijing: Uneven progress in an unequal world
- The persistence of gender inequalities
- The disabling policy environment
- The sobering assessments of 2000
- The UNRISD report
- Bringing gender back in
- Current policy agendas: Implications for gender equality
- Forging links between economic policy and gender equality
- Women's movements: Walking a tightrope to change
- Section 1. Macroeconomics, well-being and gender equality
- Chapter 2. Liberalization and deregulation: The route to gender equality?
- Liberalization and globalization
- Macroeconomic effects of globalization
- Chapter 3. Liberalization, labour markets and women's gains: A mixed picture
- Liberalized trade and investment flows
- Slow growth and economic volatility effects
- Fiscal retrenchment
- Global economic integration and women's participation in decision making
- Chapter 4. Consolidating women's gains: The need for a broader policy agenda
- Indicators and measurement
- Progress in closing gender gaps in well-being
- Macroeconomic strategies for gender-equitable development
- Section 2. Women, work and social policy
- Chapter 5. The feminization and informalization of labour
- North and South: Converging and competing?
- Women's employment in OECD countries: Continuity and change
- Women's employment in Eastern and Central Europe: Crisis and decline
- Middle East and North Africa: Stalled industrialization and diversification
- The informal economy
- Organizations of informal workers
- Chapter 6. The changing terms of rural living
- The implications of liberalization for rural poverty
- The gendered impacts of economic reform
- Detecting change in gender relations
- Chapter 7. Cross-border migration of workers
- International migratory flows
- Changing "migration regimes": Who gets in?
- Women workers' modes of entry
- Stratified labour markets
- Migrant health workers
- Chapter 8. The search for a new social policy agenda
- Gender: The "silent term"
- Gender ordering/stratification and institutional change
- Anti-poverty programmes: "Targeting" women but gender-blind?
- Section 3. Women in politics and public life
- Chapter 9. Women in public office: A rising tide
- Towards a "critical mass"
- Why are women absent?
- Electoral systems and women's entry
- Affirmative action: Boosting the numbers
- The myth of voter hostility
- Women's presence and performance in public office
- Women's expanding and changing political roles
- The mobilization of women in and by political parties
- Assessing women's political effectiveness
- Chapter 10. Women mobilizing to reshape democracy
- Women's movements and feminist politics
- Women's engagement in democratization
- Women's reaction to faith-based and ethnic movements
- Transnational women's mobilization
- Chapter 11. Gender and "good governance"
- The contemporary governance reform agenda
- Gender equality and governance reform
- Gender and accountability
- Civil service reforms
- Gender and the rule of law agenda
- Dedicated institutions to represent women's needs
- Chapter 12. Decentralization and gender equality
- The prevalence of women in local government
- Country experiences of affirmative action
- Resistance from traditional authorities
- Gender-sensitive institutional innovations in local government
- Enabling women's voices to be heard
- Women's impact on local decision making
- Political representation: The promise for women
- Section 4. Gender, armed conflict and the search for peace
- Chapter 13. The impacts of conflict on women
- Warfare and women
- Women as direct victims of war
- Women as military participants
- War's effects on women as social actors
- Women and the search for peace
- Chapter 14. After conflict: Women, peace building and development
- The continuation of violence and sexual assault
- The reduction of "space" and life choices
- Tensions between women
- Potential for positive change: Opportunities glimpsed and real
- The gender-weighted peace industry
- Macroeconomic and macrosocial policies: Implications for women
- Agriculture and land reform
- Urban employment
- Health, welfare and education
- Women's rights and postwar political change
- Seeking justice for war rape and sexual violence
- Postwar truth processes, reconciliation, and women's stories
- Civil and political participation
- Concluding remarks
- Economic liberalization
- Embedding liberalism?
- Towards a gender-equitable policy agenda
- Background papers
- Bibliography
- Acronyms
- Annex. Geographical groupings
- Tables
- 1.1. Key international and regional legal instruments promoting gender equality (1990-2004)
- 1.2. Estimates of "missing women"
- 2.1. Inflation (Consumer prices, 10-year averages)
- 2.2. Trends in per capita GDP growth, average annual percentage growth (1961-2000)
- 2.3. Trends in income inequality in 73 countries, from the 1950s to the 1990s
- 3.1. Female share of paid employment in manufacturing, selected Asian economies (1991-2000)
- 3.2. Female to male manufacturing wage ratios (in percentages), selected countries (1990-1999)
- 3.3. Social expenditure per capita in constant international prices, five-year averages (1975-1999)
- 4.1. Changes in indicators of gender equality in well-being (1970-1999)
- 5.1. Women's average annual income/earnings as a percentage of men's, by age groups for full-time, full-year workers in the mid to late 1990s
- 5.2. Activity rates and female/male mean wage ratio, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
- 5.3. Unemployment rates, selected MENA countries, 1990s
- 5.4. Informal employment in non-agricultural employment, by sex, different regions and selected countries (1994-2000)
- 5.5. Wage and self-employment in the non-agricultural informal sector by sex, different regions and selected countries (1994-2000)
- 6.1. Economically active population in agriculture, agricultural value added and agricultural exports, regional averages and some country examples (1980-2000)
- 6.2. Poverty and indigence rates in Latin America, percentage of population (1980-2002)
- 6.3. Women's employment in high-value agricultural export production
- 6.4. Form of acquisition of land ownership by gender (in percentages)
- 7.1. Percentage of total admissions of immigrants in the family, humanitarian and economic categories who are females (1990-2000)
- 7.2. Beneficiaries of family reunification in the European Union
- 7.3. Number of female migrant workers by sending country and proportion of females in total outflows (1979-1996)
- 7.4. Occupation, immigration status, country of origin, and number of unskilled female migrant workers by receiving country and percentage of total number in the early 2000s
- 7.5. Participation rate and unemployment rate of nationals and foreigners by sex in selected OECD countries, 2001-2002 average
- 9.1. Countries achieving a "critical mass" (30 per cent and over) of women in national assemblies, April 2004
- Figures
- 1.1. Ratio of female to male gross enrolment rates in low-income countries and lower-middle-income countries (1980-2000)
- 1.2. Female economic activity rates, regional averages (1980-latest available year)
- 1.3. Women's presence in national parliaments, regional averages (1987-2004)
- 1.4. Juvenile sex ratios and fertility rates in China and India (early 1980s-2000s)
- 2.1. Sum of inward and outward FDI as a percentage of gross fixed capital formation (1970-2002)
- 4.1. Women wage employment in non-agricultural sector as percentage of total non-agricultural employees (1990-2002)
- 5.1. Female economic activity rates in the Middle East and North Africa and transitional countries (1980-latest available year)
- 5.2. Part-time employment rates in OECD countries, as percentage of total employment (2001)
- 6.1. Agricultural value added, annual percentage growth (1970-2001)
- 6.2. Sub-Saharan African share of world agricultural trade (1961-2002)
- 6.3. Female rural activity rates, Latin American (1980-2000)
- 7.1. Categories of admission for immigrants admitted to Canada (1990-2000)
- 7.2. Categories of admission for immigrants admitted to the United States (1990-2000)
- 7.3. Percentages in the labour force of foreign-born and native-born population age 25-64, by sex, Canada (1996) and the United States (2000)
- 8.1. Share of official development assistance (ODA) to developing countries for social infrastructure and services (1975-2002)
- 8.2. World Bank's share of total ODA for social infrastructure and services, selected regions (1975-2002)
- 9.1. Women in national parliaments and female net secondary education enrolment, 2001
- 9.2. Women in national parliaments and female gross tertiary education enrolment, 2001
- 9.3. Women in national parliaments and female economic activity rate, 2001
- 9.4. Women's presence in national parliaments: change in averages by level of income (1987-2004)
- 9.5. Women in national parliaments, averages by level of income, electoral system and existence of quotas, 2004
- 9.6. Women in ministerial and subministerial positions, and national parliaments, regional averages, 1998
- 9.7. Ministerial areas assigned to women in the world, by level of income, 1998
- 9.8. National Board of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) by sex of members, Brazil (1981-1999)
- 9.9. Legality of abortion by country's level of income, 2001
- 12.1. Women in local government and national parliaments, 2004
- 12.2. Gender policy preference and investment in villages with reserved and unreserved leader position for women. Evidence from West Bengal and Rajasthan, India
- 12.3. Gender equality in education, economic activity and political participation, 2001
- 13.1. Type of conflicts in the world (1946-2003)
- 13.2. Estimated age and sex distribution of deaths due to conflicts in the year 2000
- 13.3. Gender composition of Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) in El Salvador, membership by demobilization category
- 13.4. Gender composition of Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG) in Guatemala, by demobilization category
- 13.5. Main countries of origin with the greatest population of concern to UNHCR, by sex (end 2003)
- 13.6. Main countries of origin with the greatest number of refugees, by sex (end 2003)
- 14.1. Pre and postconflict proportion of women in national parliaments
- Boxes
- 1.1. Sexual and reproductive health are human rights
- 3.1. High tech and high heels in the global economy: Women, work and pink-collar identities
- 5.1. Women outside the labour market in Hungary
- 5.2. Kayaye in Ghana: The poor exploiting the very poor
- 5.3. Stratified markets in south India entrench insecurity
- 5.4. Subcontracting and pricing in clothing, the Philippines
- 5.5. Homeworkers and the self-employed
- 5.6. Straddling strategies by teachers and health workers in the South West Province of Cameroon
- 5.7. "Property rights" are no panacea for the informal economy
- 6.1. Fruit temporeras in Chile
- 6.2. Diversification and changing household structures in India
- 7.1. "Illegal", "undocumented", "irregular": A note on terminology
- 7.2. How commuters from the margins help the elite live in clover
- 8.1. Women health workers on the ward: A snapshot from Tanzania
- 8.2. Extending coverage to domestic workers
- 9.1. Gender implications of variations in electoral systems
- 9.2. Legal challenges to quota law violations in Argentina
- 9.3. Chile: A case of votes rather than convictions
- 9.4. Women in politics: What difference does it make? An empirical assessment of the case of abortion laws
- 11.1. Women's struggle over citizenship rights leads to improved representation
- 12.1. Ousting a Rajasthani women leader
- 13.1. Data on women affected by armed conflict
- 13.2. Rape as a tool of Somali clan conflict
- 13.3. Abducted girl mothers and babies
- 13.4. The end of conflict in Cambodia
- 14.1. Domestic violence increases after war
- 14.2. Women excluded from postwar planning
- 14.3. Women losing land: Postwar land reform in Africa and Latin America
- 14.4. UN Security Council Resolution 1325
- 14.5. Talking about sexual assault and rape
- 14.6. Prosecuting sexual crimes in Sierra Leone's UN Special Court
- 14.7. Characteristics and purposes of Truth Commissions
