Gender Studies

Gender-disaggregated data is essential to the planning and implementation of gender-informed development projects. The sources below provide up-to-date information on gender across a variety of sectors.

• eAtlas mapping tool, developed in cooperation with Harper Collins UK, allows users to transform data into customized visual comparisons across time, countries, and regions. The resulting full color maps and graphs can subsequently be exported for sharing, used in presentations, and saved for later use.
• The Enterprise Surveys database provides firm-level data on women's entrepreneurship and participation in the labor force.
• GenderStats  
  
  • A one stop source of information on gender at the country level.
  • A compilation of data on key gender topics from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys.
  • A work-in-progress because the database is continuously updated as new information becomes available.
• Key Gender Employment Indicators 
• Women, Business and the Law
  Women, Business and the Law presents indicators based on laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as entrepreneurs and employees in 128 economies across 6 topics.
• Assessing Vulnerability for Women and Children, March 2009
• Edstats
  Education Statistics was designed and developed by the World Bank's Education Group of the Human Development Network and the Development Economics Data Group drawing on data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, OECD and other international agencies. Its purpose is to compile education data from a variety of national and international sources in order to provide information on pertinent educational topics.
• MDG Indicators 
  The Millennium Development Goals commit the international community to an expanded vision of development, one that vigorously promotes human development as the key to sustaining social and economic progress in all countries, and recognizes the importance of creating a global partnership for development. The goals have been commonly accepted as a framework for measuring development progress.
• Sector Tools and Data
  

World Bank eAtlas of Gender, the latest in a suite of user-friendly, interactive electronic atlases, allows users to map and graph dozens of gender indicators over time and across countries. ...

It allows users to see how a country fares on several dimensions of well-being and empowerment by clicking on an indicator after a keyword search. When the indicator is selected, a world map appears, showing the latest data for more than 200 economies.

With this eAtlas, you can

• Map more than 80 World Bank indicators worldwide
• Compare and view two maps simultaneously
• Animate maps to show change over time
• View all data in ranking tables and charts alongside maps
• Export maps and data for use in presentations and more
• Import your own data

 

Differentiated pathways out of poverty : Status, trends and gaps

 

Foreword  [831kb]
Introduction
Acknowledgement
Abbreviations and acronyms

Part I   [986kb]

Gender dimensions of rural and agricultural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty
A global perspective

Part II   [888kb]

Consequences of gender inequalities and policy options for gender equitable rural employment
Workshop contributions

Part III   [526kb]

Selected papers – workshop contributions

Boxes, graphs and tables  [1,235]

 

Stemming girls’ chronic poverty (revised) : Catalysing development change by building just social institutions by

Nicola Jones
Caroline Harper
Carol Watson
- with -
Jessica Espey
Dhana Wadugodapitiya
Ella Page
Maria Stavropoulou
Elizabeth Presler-Marshall
Ben Clench
2010

Abstract

Childhood, adolescence and early adulthood remain for many girls and young women a period of deprivation, danger and vulnerability, resulting in lack of agency and critical development deficits. What happens at this crucial time in girls’ and young women’s lives can also reinforce their poverty status and that of their offspring, as well as influencing their movement into or out of poverty. In many cases, overlapping experiences of deprivation, foregone human development opportunities and abuse or exploitation perpetuate and intensify poverty for girls and young women over the life-course.

 Recently – in part because of the child focus of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the 2007 World Development Report – there has been growing attention on the need to include girls (and boys) more prominently in development agendas. How to do this effectively, however, remains under-researched, especially in debates around chronic poverty, which have in general paid relatively limited attention to gender dynamics.

This report addresses this gap by placing girls and young women centre stage, highlighting ways in which five context-specific social institutions inform and determine their life opportunities and agency. Based on the OECD’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), these are: discriminatory family codes, son bias, limited resource rights and entitlements, physical insecurity and restricted civil liberties. We discuss the characteristics of each social institution, its gendered dimensions, its linkages to poverty dynamics and its impacts on girls and young women.

We balance this with a review of promising policies and programmes aimed at tackling the discriminatory dimensions of these institutions. Social institutions are constantly undergoing change. The process may be slow, uneven and even suffer from reversals in some contexts, but the evidence that we present underscores that positive change for girls and young women is possible, even in the most challenging socio-cultural, political and economic contexts.

READ THE ONLINE FULL REPORT HERE (revised)

The Report Summary booklet and the individual chapters below are available to download below. 

 

Chronic Poverty Reports. Chronic Poverty Research Centre.

Downloads

1	Summary booklet	PDF	3380.0 KB
2	Preliminaries	PDF	1909.8 KB
3	Introduction	PDF	2081.2 KB
4	Chapter 1: Discriminatory family codes	PDF	3021.9 KB
5	Chapter 2: Son bias	PDF	4434.5 KB
6	Chapter 3: Limited resource rights and entitlements	PDF	2514.0 KB
7	Chapter 4: Physical insecurity	PDF	2424.0 KB
8	Chapter 5: Restricted civil liberties	PDF	3075.4 KB
9	Conclusions and policy recommendations	PDF	1272.7 KB
10	References, Index, Annexes	PDF	1131.8 KB

Date: 13th April 2010 Time: 1215-1345 hours

Venue: S27 Education Faculty

THE WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES, FACULTY OF ARTS, AND THE EDUCATION FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE

The transformation of the academic disciplines by the inclusion of the experiences and perspectives of women, people of color, and working and marginalized people everywhere is an ongoing process which is now over 40 years old. The transformation of the academic disciplines by the inclusion of the experiences and perspectives of women, people of color, and working and marginalized people everywhere is an ongoing process which is now over 40 years old. The inclusion of women’s lives as objects of study, for example, transforms what we know about economic development, social movements, and wars in history, human development in psychology, and the range of genres in literature. Professors Maher and Tetreault will discuss some of the implications of this vast and still growing scholarship for school and university curricula in the social sciences, humanities and sciences, and discuss with the audience the significance of this work for South African universities

OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)
The OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a statistical tool which measures discrimination that restricts women’s ability to access resources in 102 developing countries. It was launched by the OECD in 2009. The SIGI uses 12 innovative indicators based on social institutions, norms and cultures and measures their impact on women and relationship to sexual discrimination and inequalities in political and economic participation. The 12 indicators are grouped into 5 categories: family code (marriage and family authority practises); physical Integrity (measures of violence against women) , son preference (inbalances in gender infant mortality), civil liberties (freedom of movement, freedom of dress) and ownership rights. The website includes the full results and country rankings. It includes podcasts, press releases and information on the methodology used to compile the index. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.oecd.org/dev/gender/SIGI

Journal of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies.

Latest issue: Gender, Biopolitics and Caribbean Feminisms: Blending Flesh with Beloved Clay and edited by Gabrielle Hosein [full-text available]

Thanks to Fareeda Jadwat for this.

 

"The Women's Studies Core Books database is a project of the Association of College & Research Libraries — Women's Studies Section. Book titles currently in print are selected by academic librarians who volunteer to maintain a subject area. The project assists Women's Studies librarians and collection development librarians in building Women's Studies collections and can also serve as a guide to instructional faculty in selecting available course readings." The project is hosted on the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office web site. The Web site also provides access to the database Women's Audio Visuals In English (WAVE). The databases cover African women (mostly SubSaharan Africa), Aging, Agricultural [Development], International, Agriculture, U.S, Anthropology and Archaeology, Antiquity, Disabilities, East Asian women, Ecofeminism, Education, Family, Feminist Movements in the U.S., Feminist Pedagogy, Feminist Theory, Film and Television Studies, Geography and Travel, Girls and Girlhood, Health, History, International, History, U.S. HIV and AIDS, Labor, Language, Latin American women, Law, Lesbian Studies, Literature, U.S., Management, Mass Medi, Mental Health and Psychology, Middle Eastern women, Military, Music, Philosophy, Politics, International, Politics, U.S., Popular Culture, Religion, Science, Sexual Abuse, Sociology, South and Southeast Asian Women, Spirituality, Sports, Technology, Theatre and Dance, Transnational Feminism and Visual Arts Women of Color. From: Intute.ac.uk
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/ACRLWSS/

International gay & lesbian review
'The International Gay & Lesbian Review' is a full-text ejournal that offers summaries and reviews of books of lesbigay interest. The Review claims to be "the world's first academic journal to be published entirely on the World Wide Web." Nearly 1000 short reviews are available, although some are available in abstract rather than full-text form. Both fiction and non-fiction books are reviewed, on a wide variety of topics and by a wide variety of reviewers. Reviews are usually in a tone suitable for the general university-educated reader. Some reviews are taken from now-defunct print publications such as Gay Today. The website has information about how to submit reviews. There is the ability to search by title, or by the surname of a book's author. For those without access to commercial book review databases, this will be a useful website to use in conjuction with Google Books and Amazon reviews. From: Intute.ac.uk
http://gaybookreviews.info/

The Global Gender Gap Report 2008 is published by the World Economic Forum. It is the result of collaboration with faculty at Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley.

From: Peter Scott's Library blog

APPLICATIONS FROM RECRUITMENT AGENCIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Thanks to Fareeda Jadwat for this.

A comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities, gender, and sexualities (19th edition) Compiled by Michael FloodFirst published in 1992 Updated 24 January 2008 19th edition published 2008 By Michael Flood, AUSTRALIA  http://mensbiblio.xyonline.net/

Centre for Gender and Womens Studies (CGWS)
Centre for Gender and Womens Studies is an interdisciplinary network of over forty teaching and research staff. The centre is based in the sociology department at Lancaster University. Research perspectives are also drawn from cultural studies; health sciences and practices; international relations; educational research; organisational and managerial practice; psychology; religious studies; and science and technology. There is a research database and news and event information. Intute.ac.uk

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/gws/

Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS)
The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) "is a non-profit organisation which promotes and contributes to projects of social, political, and economic themes relating to gender with an emphasis on the Mediterranean region." MIGS works to identify and eliminate discrimination against women through its research, advocacy and lobbying, as well as trainings, conferences. MIGS works with a broad network of scholars and researchers with expertise in gender related areas and has strong links with a wide network of organisations working on gender in the Mediterranean region and the European Union, particularly civil society organisations, research institutes, and universities. MIGS is a member of several large European networks including the European Women’s Lobby (EWL), Women Against Violence in Europe (WAVE), Women In Development Europe (WIDE), and ATHENA - Socrates Thematic Network Project. MIGS is responsible for the secretariat for the Women’s International Studies Europe (WISE) network. MIGS is affiliated to the academic institution Intercollege in Cyprus. Intercollege has been actively involved, both as a coordinating institution and as a partner, in the administration and implementation of a number of projects related to issues of gender. More specifically, the institute has conducted work in the area of the media, interpersonal violence against women and girls, migration, leadership and decision making, ethno-political conflict, employment and economic life. The institute has received funding from the European Commission, the United Nations Office for Project Services, the British Council, the European Journalism Centre, the Embassy of the United States of America and the National Machinery of Women’s Rights in Cyprus as well as from various other national, regional, and international organisations. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.medinstgenderstudies.org/