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Issue 40 : Local government for gender equality
Despite signs of progress in some regions and countries, the overall pattern of gender inequality remains unchanged. In most countries women work more hours than men but earn less. This is because they often perform unpaid work and are over-represented in lower income groups. To make matters worse, they often earn less than men for identical work. In rural areas few women own land, which reduces their access to income from agricultural produce. And cultural factors contribute to girls being discriminated against when they want to go to school, which diminishes their career opportunities.
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Preserve status quo or promote gender equality?
Women’s rights activists and gender and development practitioners have high hopes for local government as an arena for promoting gender equality and respecting women’s human rights. However, gender equality can only be achieved through radical structural change.
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Preserve status quo or promote gender equality?
11 November 2010
Women’s rights activists and gender and development practitioners have high hopes for local government as an arena for promoting gender equality and respecting women’s human rights. However, gender equality can only be achieved through radical structural change.
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To Know is to be empowered
11 October 2010
If you want to effectively tackle gender inequality, you need to be able to measure it and identify its underlying causes. Putting local governments in the know is half the battle.
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Legitimacy enhances capacity
11 November 2010
Do affirmative action and training of women politicians lead to effective voice and change on issues that are relevant for women?
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Capacity for effective participation
11 November 2010
Affirmative action measures aimed at enhancing women’s participation as political representatives in decentralised government bodies is a growing field of research and development practice. Several issues need to be addressed first, however, to realise these goals.
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A matter of political will
11 November 2010
As the level of government closest to citizens, local authorities can play a vital role in addressing gender inequality and in building the capacities of women by involving them in local decision making, planning and management. The importance of that role was recognised by the International Union of Local Authorities and in the 1998 Worldwide Declaration on Women in Local Government. Earlier, increasing the participation of women in politics and decision making was a central theme of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995). This was reaffirmed in 2000 in the third Millennium Development Goal, to ‘promote gender equality and empower women’.
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A Magic Bullet For Gender Equality?
11 November 2010
Successful decentralisation should make government more accessible, accountable and responsive to women. But does it? Have decentralisation processes increased women’s decision-making power at the local level?
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