Gender category: 10444 books
Modernizing Tradition
Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
In the turbulent decades after World War I, both France and Germany sought to return to an idealized, prewar past. Many people believed they could recapture a sense of order and stability by reinstituting traditional gender roles, which the war had thrown off balance. While French and German women...
Gender Gap
How Genes and Gender Influence Our Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Let's face it, say Barash and Lipton: Males and females, boys and girls, men and women are different. To be sure, these differences are often heightened by distinctions in learning, cultural tradition, and social expectation, but underpinning them all is a fundamental difference that derives from...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are often overlooked or treated as peripheral. This groundbreaking collection by Alison Jaggar brings gender to the centre of philosophical debates about global...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
The book "Gender and Governance in Rural Services: Insights from India, Ghana and Ethiopia" provides policy-relevant knowledge on strategies to improve agricultural and rural service delivery with a focus on providing more equitable access to these services, especially for women. It focuses India, Ethiopia,...
Gender Equality Results Case Study
Nepal—Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project aimed at expanding the coverage of improved water supply and sanitation facilities to poor and remote areas, and improving health and hygiene practices. Promoting equality between women and men and gender relations is relevant to the main...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This tool kit was designed to help development practitioners incorporate gender perspectives into development initiatives, and to monitor and evaluate gender equality results. It was written with development policy makers, planners, implementers, and evaluators in mind. The tool kit provides a menu...
Sri Lanka
Gender Equality Diagnostic of Selected Sectors
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This publication presents a gender equality diagnostic of education, energy, transport, and water and sanitation in Sri Lanka—four sectors which are the major areas of cooperation between ADB and the Government of Sri Lanka. The sector-focused chapters provide insights into the gender equality issues...
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Assessment of the Energy Sector
Enhancing Social Sustainability of Energy Development in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In Nepal, deeply embedded structural conditions determined by gender, caste or ethnicity, religion, language, and even geography have made access to and benefits from energy resources highly uneven. Women, the poor, and excluded groups experience energy poverty more severely. To address this imbalance,...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This publication is part of the commitment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to document gender equality results in its operations. It presents case studies in ADB priority sectors: urban development, rural infrastructure, and education. The case studies provide an overview of gender issues, design...
Gender Equality Results Case Study
Sri Lanka—Improving Connectivity to Support Livelihoods and Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Improving Connectivity to Support Livelihoods and Gender Equality project (JFPR 9143) sought to to improve connectivity and quality of life of conflict-affected and isolated poor communities in selected districts of the Eastern and North Central provinces of Sri Lanka, and supported the rehabilitation...
Participatory Research and Gender Analysis
New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application...
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans
Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Ashley Baggett uncovers the voices of abused women who utilized the legal system in New Orleans to address their grievances from the antebellum era to the end of the nineteenth century. Poring over 26,000 records, Baggett analyzes 421 criminal cases involving intimate partner violence" physical...
Gender, Media, and Organization
Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Gender, Media, and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers is the fourth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This cross?disciplinary series from the International Leadership Association draws from current research findings,...
Gender and Humor
Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while...