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Conceptualising empowerment and the implications for pro-poor growth: a paper for the DAC Poverty Network
(IDS, 2008-09)This paper proposes a framework for how empowerment can be conceptually understood and operationally explored. It makes recommendations for forthcoming areas of work within the POVNET Work Programme on empowering poor women ... -
Addressing the preconditions: women's rights and development
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2007)‘Gender equality’ may have made it into the language of mainstream development. But in most parts of the world, inequalities between women and men in the workplace, in political institutions and in the home have proven ... -
Politicising Masculinities: Beyond the Personal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2007)A diverse mix of people came together in Dakar, Senegal from 13-19 October 2007, to debate issues of men, gender and power: unconventional practical academics, open-minded policymakers, reflective practitioners and activists. ... -
Changing Narratives of Sexuality - Concept Paper
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2008-08)This concept paper focuses on the politics of sexuality. Its focus is on the normative construction of heterosexuality in mainstream narratives of sexuality produced by institutions such as the media, the law, religion and ... -
Change and Continuity in Women's Everyday Lives in Ghana: Exploring some Indicators of the Material Dimensions of Empowerment and Citizenship
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2009-01)This paper, presented to 'Pathways: What are we Learning?' Analysis Conference held in Cairo, 20-24 January 2009, seeks to interrogate the extent to which change has occurred in the lives of three generations of Ghanaian ... -
Researching Empowerment: On Methodological Innovations, Pitfalls and Challenges
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2009-01)This paper presented at 'Pathways: What are we Learning?' conference held in Cairo from 20-24 January 2009, reflects on the linguistic and methodological challenges of researching aspects of women's empowerment in Ghana. ... -
The Participation Paradox: Quotas Policy in Latin America
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2009)Within the last 20 years, the problem of women’s participation in formal power positions has been mobilising women, especially feminists, throughout Latin America. After over half a century since gaining the right to vote, ... -
Voice and Women's Empowerment: Mapping a Research Agenda
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2008-07)The Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium (RPC) uses the entry point of ‘Voice’ in its theme ‘Building Constituencies for Equality and Justice’ to explore how to make institutions more accountable ... -
Pathways of Women's Empowerment: Stories of Influence
(Institute of Development Studies, 2015-03)This report explores the strand of work developed by the Pathways of Women's Empowerment programme under the IDS Gender, Power and Sexuality Programme supported by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). It ... -
Speaking for Change: Voice and Women's Empowerment
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2006-08)The realities of women’s lives in Pakistan are complex and challenging. The first section of this detailed scoping paper which was presented at the Pathways South Asia Hub Scoping Workshop, 19-21 August 2006, presents an ... -
Rights and Resources: The Effects of External Financing on Organising for Women's Rights
(Royal Tropical Institute and Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2011)This report concerns the historical trajectory of women's rights organisations (WROs) in Bangladesh and Ghana within the changing national contexts as well as the shifting international aid landscape in the last two decades ... -
Supporting Pathways of Women's Empowerment: A Brief Guide for International Development Organisations
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2011-10)Most international development organisations include women's empowerment and gender equality as a key objective. But what empowerment means and how best to support it remains a matter of debate. This brief by Rosalind Eyben ... -
Sexuality and Empowerment: An Intimate Connection
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2011-10)What does sexuality have to do with women's empowerment? Research from the Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC shows that sexuality affects women's political and economic empowerment in a number of important ways. For ... -
How can Social Protection Provide Social Justice for Women?
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2011-10)Social protection is the right to survive. It is the right to basic income, shelter, health, food and information, all of which enable people to survive, support their dependents and find a way out of need and destitution. ... -
Contextualising the Economic Pathways of Women's Empowerment: Findings from a Multi-Country Research Programme
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2011-10)Women's paid work has featured in the development literature for two main reasons. The instrumental reason relates to its potential to contribute to make a variety of development goals, from poverty reduction to human ... -
What Makes Domestic Violence Legislation More Effective?
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2011-10)Domestic violence against women has gained worldwide attention as a form of discrimination as well as a violation of women's human rights. An estimated one in three women in the world is affected, independent of their ... -
Women Engaging Politically: Beyond Magic Bullets and Motorways
(Pathways of Women's Empowerment, 2011-10)This paper adopts an upside-down approach to women's political empowerment. While the number of women we need to get into legislatures has often assumed centrestage, this paper takes women's pathways as its starting point. ... -
Reciprocity, Distancing, and Opportunistic Overtures: Women's Organisations Negotiating Legitimacy and Space in Bangladesh
(Wiley, 2010-03)By focusing on three different national level women's organisations in Bangladesh, this article looks at how the movements have used different strategies to become an effective voice for women's interests and empowerment ... -
Family, Households and Women's Empowerment in Bahia, Brazil, through the Generations: Continuities or Change?
(Wiley, 2010-03)This article identifies changes and continuities in gender relations in a working class neighbourhood in Salvador, Bahia, through the generations. Based on data collected over a period of nearly 20 years, it seeks to ... -
Education: Pathway to Empowerment for Ghanaian Women?
(Wiley, 2010-03)Education has long been seen as crucial to women's empowerment. Increasingly, however, scholars such as Stromquist have questioned our faith in the power of education to empower women. Drawing on a survey of 600 women of ...