Women and men interact with their physical environment and natural resources in different ways. However, across the world, women are still discriminated against when it comes to decision-making and natural resource management. In some countries women have no or few rights to access land, for example, which limits their decision-making abilities and their capacity in […]
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Gender Equality and Web 2.0
How are both women and men represented on the Web? How can Web 2.0 innovations help advance gender equality goals? Are women given the same access as men in all countries to the Internet, web 2.0 technologies and its benefits? What are some of the examples of ways in which web 2.0 innovations can lift […]
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Gender Equality and Financing for Development
Financing for gender equality is a critical part of the discussion on financing for development, in that sustainable economic growth and human development require women’s full participation in the economy, making it necessary to tailor development finance to the needs of both women and men. Table of Contents 1 Monterrey Consensus and Gender Equality 2 […]
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Women’s WORLD
Women’s WORLD, a global free speech network of feminist writers, was founded in 1994 to defend women writers under attack and to develop programs to enable them to have a stronger public voice. Table of Contents 1 Mission 2 Activities 3 History 4 Sources Mission Women’s World Organization for Rights, Literature, and Development, or Women’s […]
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Women’s Suffrage
The term women’s suffrage refers to the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage, that is, the right to vote, to women. The right to women’s suffrage was enshrined in the 1948 and the 1979 . Table of Contents 1 Early history – 19th century movements 2 Suffrage in the 20th century 3 […]
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