Category: Books

Public lecture: Tracking the gender politics of the Millennium Development Goals: from the Millennium Declaration to the post-2015 consultations

Gendering the Social Sciences: a Gender Institute public lecture Date: Wednesday 2 October 2013 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Naila Kabeer Chair: Professor Diane Perrons The Millennium Declaration, signed by over 180 world...

Paid work, women’s empowerment and inclusive growth: transforming the structures of constraint

http://www2.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2013/1/paid-work-womens-empowerment-and-inclusive-growth2%20pdf.pdf?v=1&d=20141013T121454   A recent review of econometric studies into the relationships between gender equality and economic growth distinguished between those that explored the impact of gender equality on economic growth and those that explored...

Empowerment, citizenship and gender justice: a contribution to locally grounded theories of change in women’s lives (article 2012)

Struggles for gender justice by women’s movements have sought to give legal recognition to gender equality at both national and international levels. However, such society-wide goals may have little resonance in the lives of...

Gender and international migration: globalisation, development and governance (editorial introduction 2012)

Introduction to Feminist Economics Special Issue on Gender and International Migration Volume 18 (2) By Lourdes Beneria, Carmen Diana Deere and Naila KabeerThis contribution examines the connections between gender and international migration around three...