United Nations Decade For Women 1976 1985
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Author | : Devaki Jain |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005-10-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780253111845 |
"Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the world -- and vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and self-respecting woman should read." -- Gloria Steinem "Devaki Jain's book nurtures your optimism in this terrible war-torn decade by describing how women succeeded in empowering both themselves and the United Nations to work toward a global leadership inspired by human dignity." -- Fatema Mernissi In Women, Development, and the UN, internationally noted development economist and activist Devaki Jain traces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United Nations from the time of its founding in 1945. Synthesizing insights from the extensive literature on women and development and from her own broad experience, Jain reviews the evolution of the UN's programs aimed at benefiting the women of developing nations and the impact of women's ideas about rights, equality, and social justice on UN thinking and practice regarding development. Jain presents this history from the perspective of the southern hemisphere, which recognizes that development issues often look different when viewed from the standpoint of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The book highlights the contributions of the four global women's conferences in Mexico City, Copenhagen, Nairobi, and Beijing in raising awareness, building confidence, spreading ideas, and creating alliances. The history that Jain chronicles reveals both the achievements of committed networks of women in partnership with the UN and the urgent work remaining to bring equality and justice to the world and its women.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : International Women's Decade, 1976-1985 |
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Author | : Hilkka Pietil'a |
Publisher | : UN |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Beijing Plus 10 Conference to Commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (2005 : Beijing) |
ISBN | : 9789211011791 |
This book covers more than eighty-five years of history between women and inter-governmental organisations. Unrecorded by history and untold by the media, this book looks at the success of women within the League of Nations and the United Nations, for the advancement and empowerment of women, especially in the 30 years since the first UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975.
Author | : Gita Sen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134156820 |
More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.
Author | : Jane L. Parpart |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : 0889369100 |
Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development demytsifies the theory of gender and development and shows how it plays an important role in everyday life. It explores the evolution of gender and development theory, introduces competing theoretical frameworks, and examines new and emerging debates. The focus is on the implications of theory for policy and practice, and the need to theorize gender and development to create a more egalitarian society. This book is intended for classroom and workshop use in the fields ofdevelopment studies, development theory, gender and development, and women's studies. Its clear and straightforward prose will be appreciated by undergraduate and seasoned professional, alike. Classroom exercises, study questions, activities, and case studies are included. It is designed for use in both formal and nonformal educational settings.
Author | : Hilkka Pietilä |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : International Women's Decade, 1976-1985 |
ISBN | : 9781856494588 |
A survey of the documents and structures that exist within the United Nations concerning women in the development process. This edition has been updated to cover the post-Beijing period. It includes a new introduction and a commentary on the Fourth World Conference on Women and what it achieved.
Author | : International Labour Office |
Publisher | : New York : Published for the Overseas Development Council [by] Praeger Publishers |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Arvonne S Fraser |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2021-06-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780367312206 |
The documents adopted by the United Nations World Conference on Women during the Decade for Women (1975-1985) set forth a policy agenda for national and local governments, international institutions, and women's groups worldwide. The dialogue among women at the nongovernmental forums held in tandem with these conferences served to identify, refine, and reassess the issues addressed in the official documents. In this volume, Dr. Fraser has condensed the four major documents of the Decade, retaining much of the original language, and describes the context in which agendas for policies, programs, and research were developed. The opening chapters offer a historical perspective on the establishment of International Women's Year, the Decade for Women, and the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Throughout the book the author analyzes the influence of Third World women on the formulation of the agenda and discusses the interaction between the official and NGO conferences. She concludes by assessing the results in policy and programmatic terms and by exploring their implications for the future.
Author | : United Nations. Division for the Advancement of Women |
Publisher | : United Nations Publications |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
"The Secretary-General's in-depth study on violence against women, mandated by General Assembly resolution 58/185, was prepared by the Division for the Advancement of Women of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat"--P. ix.
Author | : Delia D. Aguilar |
Publisher | : Humanities Press International |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana have assembled a collection of articles showing the various ways in which the neoliberal agenda of globalization has drawn women into productive labor and in the process radically reshaped their lives in the reproductive sphere. Implemented primarily through the structural adjustment programs required by international financial agencies, neoliberalism has intensified women's exploitation on the assembly line and spawned an unprecedented diaspora of women as mail-order brides, domestic helpers, and workers in the sex trade. Many of the essays describe the appalling conditions that characterize these work sites. Not less important, they underscore the vitality of grassroots organizations where women collectively wage battles for better work lives and envision a system more humane than what currently exists.