Concerns with women’s empowerment have their roots in grassroots mobilisations across the world and have always had a focus on the material dimensions of women’s subordination. The idea of women’s economic empowerment speaks directly...
Pathways Policy Paper October 2011 A number of key findings emerged from our research. While our surveys confirmed the overall importance of women’s access to paid work for improvements in different aspects of their...
https://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/Wp375.pdf The debate about the relationship between paid work and women’s position within the family and society is a long standing one. Some argue that women’s integration into the market is the key to...
This paper challenges the idea that a “social clause” to enforce global labor standards through international trade agreements serves the interests of women export workers in poor countries. Drawing on fieldwork in Bangladesh and...
http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/Wp290.pdf The different processes associated with globalisation have led to rising rates of paid work by women often in contexts where male employment is stagnant or declining. This paper explores how women and...