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Gender

Gender and Power

• Franken, M. et al. (Eds.). (2009). Teaching intersectionality: Putting gender at the centre. Published by ATHENA3, Advanced Thematic Network in Women's Studies in Europe, University of Utrecht and Stockholm University. (1.0 Mb pdf)
• Grant, T. (2011, September 20). 'Gender equality is smart economics,' World Bank says. Globe and Mail.
• Hunjan, R. & Pettit, J. (2011). Power: A practical guide for facilitating social change. Published by Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. (3.61 Mb pdf)
• Laveist, T., Gaskin, D. & Trujillo, A. (2011). Segregated spaces, risky places: The effects of racial segregation on health inequalities. Published by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. (1.0 Mb pdf)
• Llanos, B. (2011). Unseeing eyes: media coverage and gender in Latin American elections. New York: UN Women. (541K pdf)
• Miller, V., et al. (2006). Making change happen: Power: concepts for revisioning power for justice, equality and peace. Published by Just Associates. (542K pdf)
• World Bank. (2011). World development report 2012: Gender equality and development. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Gender Budgeting

• Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is government planning, programming and budgeting that contributes to the advancement of gender equality and the fulfillment of women's rights.
• Quinn, S. (2009). Gender budgeting: Practical implementation. (742K pdf)

Empowerment of Women

• Batliwala, S. & Rao, A. (1999). Conversations with women on leadership and social transformation. Published by Gender at Work. (286K pdf)
• Carli, L. & Eagly, A. (2001). Gender, hierarchy, and leadership: An introduction. Journal of Social Issues, 57(4), 629-636. (STFX access only). (27K pdf)
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (1999). DAC guidelines for gender equality and women's empowerment in development co-operation.
• Pathways of Women's Empowerment, a collection of publications concerning empowerment, equality and justice, sexuality, work, and communications.
• Turquet, L., et al. (2011). 2011-2012 Progress of the world's women: In pursuit of justice. Published by UN Women. (9.44 Mb pdf)
• UN Women, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
• Women Watch, UN information and resources on gender equality and empowerment of women.
• Women's Empowerment resources from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Feminization of Poverty

• Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
• da Corta, L. & Magongo, J. (2011). Evolution of gender and poverty dynamics in Tanzania. (CPRC Working Paper 203). (1.07 Mb pdf)
• Feminization of poverty, Fact Sheet no. 1, UN Division for the Advancement of Women.
• Gender resources from Choike, a portal improving the visibility of work done by NGOs and social movements from the South.
• Urgent Action Fund supports women's rights and provides grants enabling interventions and participation in advocacy and research.
• Women, poverty and economics' resources from the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

Gender-based Violence

• Chowdhury, E. H. (2007). Negotiating state and NGO politics in Bangladesh. Violence Against Women, 13/8. (StFX access only).
• Gender-based violence, ELDIS resources.
• Gender-based violence, resources from the World Health Organization (WHO).
• UNICEF. (2000). Domestic violence against women and girls. Innocenti Digest, no. 6. (297K pdf)
• Violence against Women, resources from WomenWatch.
• 'We Can', the six-year South Asian Campaign to End All Violence aims to deal with violence against women in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
• White Ribbon Campaign, a Canadian organization of men against violence against women.
• Women's Learning Partnership. (2012). From fear to freedom: ending violence against women [Video]. (35 min.)

Media and Gender

• Women Make the News is launched annually on International Women's Day (March 8). It is a global initiative aimed at promoting gender equality in the media.

Men's Involvement in Gender

• Barker, G., et al. (2011). Evolving men: Initial results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES). Published by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW).
• Farré, L. (2011). The role of men for gender equality. Background paper prepared for the World Development Report 2012, published by the World Bank. (266K pdf)
• United Nations. (2008). The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality. Women 2000 and Beyond. (598K pdf)
• United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). (2000). Men, reproductive rights and gender equality. In State of world population 2000. (540K pdf)

Political Participation

• International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics
• Palmieri, S. (2011). Gender-sensitive parliaments: A global review of good practice. (Reports and document no. 65). Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union. (3.43 Mb pdf)
• Oxfam's Raising Her Voice is a program promoting the rights and ability of poor women to increase their influence and ensure their voices are heard so that those in power become more accountable to them.
• Whitman, T. & Gomez, J. (2009). Bringing women into government. Strategies for Policymakers, no. 1. (419K pdf)

Religion, Culture and Gender

• 50-50 Inclusive Democracy: Religion Gender Politics
• Andrews, K. (n.d.). Women in Theravada Buddhism.
• Charter of Feminist Principles for African Women, published by the African Feminist Forum.
• Kissling, F. & Sippel, S. (2001). Women under oppressive regimes: women and religious fundamentalisms. Conscience Magazine.
• Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
• Okin, S. M. (1999). Is multiculturalism bad for women?.
• Schalkwyk, J. (2000). Culture, gender equality and development cooperation. (68K pdf)

Sexual Harassment

• Meyer, H. (2005). Love and Romance in the Workplace.
• Pierce, C., & Aguinis, H. (1997). Bridging the gap between romantic relationships and sexual harassment in organizations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 18, 197-200. (StFX access only).

Statistical and Comparative Data

• Directory of UN Resources on Gender and Women's Issues, WomenWatch.
• Gender Equality data and statistics from the World Bank.
• Global Gender Gap Index, introduced by the World Economic Forum, is a framework for capturing gender-based disparities and tracking their progress.
• Measures of Distributional Inequality, tool to help understand the Gini Coefficient.
• Statistics and indicators on women and men, United Nations.
• Statistics and monitoring site from UNICEF.

Videos

• Angela Davis: How Does Change Happen? (59:11 min.)

Databases:

• Gender and Adult Learning in Canada, a portal that supports educators and women's organizations active in adult learning.
• Gender, citizenship and governance, a KIT information portal from Royal Tropical Institute.

Gender Manuals

• Canada Nepal Gender in Organizations (CNGO), training packages available.
• Cutting Edge Packs, BRIDGE: Development and Gender.
• Landuyt, K. (1998).  Gender mainstreaming: A how-to manual.
• Gender manuals and resources, from Network Learning.
• Nath, M. B. (2000). Gender, HIV and Human Rights: A training manual. UNIFEM.
• UNDP. (n.d.). Gender Mainstreaming Learning Manual & Information Pack.
• UNDP. (2001). Learning and information pack: Process & advocacy skills for gender mainstreaming. UNDP Gender in Development Programme. (453K pdf)
• United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT). (2008). Gender in local government: A sourcebook for trainers. (2.78 Mb pdf)
• Vainio-Mattila, A. (2001). Navigating Gender: A framework and a tool for participatory development. Finnida.
• WHO. (2001). Transforming health systems: Gender and rights in reproductive health.

General information about gender issues

• AWID: Association for Women's Rights in Development
• BRIDGE, gender resources from the Institute for Development Studies (IDS).
• Gender equality resources from UNESCO.
• Gender equality and women's empowerment, information from USAID.
• Gender resources from ELDIS.
• Gender resources from Zunia: Knowledge Exchange.
• Gender at Work, building cultures of equality and social justice.
• Lambrou, Y. & Piana, G. (2006). Gender: The missing component of the response to climate change. (372K pdf)
• Weman Resources promotes gender justice in economic development.

Other sites of interest

• Barry, J. & Dordevic, J. (2007). What's the point of revolution if we can't dance?. Published by Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights. (7.33 Mb pdf)
• Bryan, E. & Varat, J. (Eds.). (2008). Strategies for promoting gender equity in developing countries: Lessons, challenges, and opportunities. Published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. (700K pdf)
• Compendium of Gender Scales, identification of gender-related measures that promote health by addressing the gender norms that function as barriers to health.
• Food security and gender, an Eldis resource guide.
• Gender Action promotes women's rights and gender equality.
• Gender and Sustainable Rural Development: a resource directory, edited by C. Irving.
• Hayes, C. (2008). Speaking out: Promoting women as decision-makers worldwide. Published by Womankind Worldwide. (604K pdf)
• Huairou Commission supports grassroots women's local development knowledge.
• Inter Press Service (IPS): Communicating MDG3 raises awareness about the third development goal's priorities, which are aimed at reducing violence against women, enhancing women's economic independence and increasing participation of women in politics and public administration.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC) Wake Up Call - send a 'wake up call' and share support for the fight against violence against women and children.
• Kapur, A. & Duvvury, N. (2006). A rights-based approach to realizing the economic and social rights of poor and marginalized women: A synthesis of lessons learned. Washington, DC: ICRW.
• SEAGA (Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis Programme)
• Luttrell, C., Quiroz, S., Scrutton, C. & Bird, K. (2009). Understanding and operationalising empowerment. (ODI Working Paper 308). (325K pdf)
• Mannix, K. (1999). The busy women's guide to the internet: Activism and research on-line, information and links to women's human rights as well as tools to assist with the Internet. (211K pdf)
• Moser, C. (2005). An introduction to gender audit methodology: Its design and implementation in DFID Malawi. London: Overseas Development Institute. (213K pdf)
• Mukhopadhyay, M. & Meer, S. (Eds.). (2008). Gender, rights and development: A global sourcebook. Book may be downloaded for free.
• Scherer, L., with Raaber, N. (2009). WITM's compilation of resource mobilization tools. WITM's Where is the money for women's rights initiative has reviewed existing online resources and produced this document. (91K pdf)
• Sevo, R. & Chubin, D.E. (2008). Bias literacy: A review of concepts in research on discrimination. (527K pdf)
• Social Watch 2012 Gender Equity Index (GEI)
• Steps for Action to Promote Gender Equality, edited by Programme Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Rights, (2009). (2.65 Mb pdf)
• Sweetman, C. (2001). Men's involvement in gender and development policy and practice: Beyond rhetoric. Oxford: Oxfam GB.