Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016 Summary
Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016 Summary

Author: UN Women

Publisher: UN

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781632140159

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This UN Women's flagship report shows that, all too often, women's economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit into a 'man's world'. But, it is possible to move beyond the status quo, to picture a world where economies are built with women's rights at their heart. It is being published as the international community comes together to define a transformative post-2015 development agenda, and coincides with the 20th anniversary commemoration of the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China which set out a comprehensive agenda to advance gender equality. This publication brings together human rights and economic policymaking, and provides the key elements for a far-reaching new policy agenda that can transform economies and make women's rights a reality. Through solid in-depth analysis and data, this evidence-based report provides key recommendations on moving towards an economy that truly works for women, for the benefit of all.

Progress of the World's Women
Progress of the World's Women

Author: Diane Elson

Publisher:

Published: 2003-10

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780756736460

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In the last decade of the 20th century, governments of the world committed themselves to advance gender equality & women's rights in a series of international conferences. These commitments were incorporated into the Millennium Development Goals adopted by UN Member States in 2000. It is significant that 189 nations adopted women's empowerment & gender equality as one of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. Sections of this report by the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) include: Introduction: Progress of the World's Women; Assessing Progress in Achieving Gender Equality; Innovations in Measuring & Monitoring; & Conclusion: Moving Forward. References. Charts & tables.

On Account of Sex
On Account of Sex

Author: Cynthia Harrison

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-06-08

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780520909304

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Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history.

The Richer Sex
The Richer Sex

Author: Liza Mundy

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-03-19

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1439197725

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A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In this book the author takes us to the frontier of this new economic order. She shows us why this flip is inevitable, what painful adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. Couples today are debating who must assume the responsibility of primary earner and who gets the freedom of being the slow track partner. With more men choosing to stay home, she shows how that lifestyle has achieved a higher status, and the ways males have found to recover their masculinity. And the revolution is global: she takes us from Japan to Denmark to show how both sexes are adapting as the marriage market has turned into a giant free-for-all, with men and women at different stages of this transformation finding partners who match their expectations. This book is an analysis of the most important cultural shift since the rise of feminism: the coming era in which women will earn more than men, and how this will change work, love, and sex.

The State and Women in the Economy
The State and Women in the Economy

Author: Jean Larson Pyle

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780791403792

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This book examines the effect of state policies on women's roles in the economy. At the most concrete level it investigates the relative lack of response of women's labor force activity rates to export-led development in the Republic of Ireland. At a broader level, it provides critical insights into current labor market debates regarding the causes of women's subordination and the efficacy of state policies designed to alleviate them. The book shows how the state, in addition to and interactively with the workplace and household, can maintain gender inequality. In so doing, Pyle demonstrates the usefulness of a revitalized and broader structural approach to feminist analysis.

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 2392

ISBN-13:

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