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Connecting Perspectives on Women’s Empowerment

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin makes a timely contribution to our understanding of how ideas around empowerment have evolved and how we can move forward to expand women’s opportunities and choices and realise women’s empowerment in a meaningful way.

Introduction: Connecting Perspectives on Women’s Empowerment

With the formulation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on gender equality and women’s empowerment, debates around empowerment...

Beyond the Rhetoric of Choice: Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment in Developed Countries

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In preparing for the 20-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action on women’s economic empowerment, both formal policy documents...

Family, Households and Women’s Empowerment in Bahia, Brazil, Through the Generations: Continuities or Change?

This article identifies changes and continuities in gender relations in a working class neighbourhood in Salvador, Bahia, through the...

The World Bank Approach to Food Security Analysis

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Summary In 1988, the Executive Directors of the World Bank agreed to a new food security initiative for Africa. The purpose of the...

Between the Household: Researching Community Organisation and Networks

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Summary There is a growing appreciation of the importance of community and non?government organisations as factors in structural...

Anthropological Perspectives on the Household

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Summary British anthropology until the 1960s used the term household in the descriptive sense. The arena of activities which are...

Sexuality — The Missing Link in Women’ Health

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Summary This article outlines some of the ways in which women are particularly vulnerable to risk in relation to their sexuality, and...

DOMINATION AND EXPLOITATION IN THE WORLD ECONOMY IN THE 1990s

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Summary This speculative article explores the economic and ethical aspects of inequality in the new post?cold war world and the...