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1. Time Use Studies and Unpaid Care Work

   Edited by Debbie Budlender

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   Across the world, unpaid care work - unpaid housework, care of persons, and "volunteer" work - is done predominantly by women. This book presents and compares unpaid care work patterns in seven different countries. It analyzes data drawn from large-scale time use surveys carried out under the...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care

   Worlds Apart

   Edited by Shahra Razavi, Silke Staab

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization

   Towards "Embedded Liberalism"?

   Edited by Shahra Razavi

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
4. Social Justice and Gender Equality

   Rethinking Development Strategies and Macroeconomic Policies

   Edited by Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Ann Zammit

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   The contributors to this edited volume explore the effects of various development strategies and associated macroeconomic policies on women’s well-being and progress towards gender equality. Detailed analyses of major UN reports on gender reveal the different approaches to assessing absolute and...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. Gendered Peace

   Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation

   Edited by Donna Pankhurst

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as ‘post-conflict’ or ‘post-war’. Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who...

   Published September 28th 2009 by Routledge
6. New Perspectives on Gender and Migration

   Livelihood, Rights and Entitlements

   Edited by Nicola Piper

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   This book discusses recent theoretical and empirical developments in international migration from a gender perspective. Its main objective is to analyse the diversification and stratification of gendered migratory streams with regard to skill level, labour market integration, and legal status. In...

   Published September 28th 2009 by Routledge
7. Global Perspectives on Gender Equality

   Reversing the Gaze

   Edited by Naila Kabeer, Agneta Stark, Edda Magnus

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. The book brings together scholars from the global South and post-socialist economies to reflect on Nordic approaches to gender equality. The contributors to the book seek to explore from a comparative perspective the...

   Published September 23rd 2009 by Routledge
8. Governing Women

   Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform

   Edited by Anne Marie Goetz

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s...

   Published December 11th 2008 by Routledge