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pathways of women's empowermentopenDemocracy brings you the voices and views of women working all over the world including Ghana, Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Nigeria as part of an on going partnership with the Institute of Development Studies. Academics, activists and practitioners working as part of the research and communications programme ask, "'what works' to empower women?". We would like to thank The Barrow Cadbury Trust and The Instititute of Development Studies, Sussex University, for supporting this project.
Despite an effective women's movement, Brazil has one of the lowest rates of female political participation in the world. Why?
The new interest in "masculinities" risks losing the gender-justice dimension. It's time to talk
How the feminisation of labour markets is changing women, men, and the world economy
Islam's rise is also opportunity for young
urban women
Listen to Takyiwaa Manuh on her work to empower women in Ghana
plus: tackling domestic violence in Africa
To cleanse man's kingdom, law is necessary - but
not sufficient
The reform of Egypt's family-law system was intended to advance women's rights. Has it worked?
Listen to Dr Hania Sholkamy on gender and empowerment in Egypt, and the challenge of engaging with global feminism
Women’s real, diverse journeys make a progressive-sounding orthodoxy look stale
“Empowerment” was won, then lost - now women need to make it real
Andrea Cornwall, Srilatha Batliwala, Cecilia Sardenberg and Anne Marie Goetz talk to Jane Gabriel about feminism and gender in a neo-liberal age.
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