Understanding gender backlash through Southern perspectives
New research published today in the IDS Bulletin reveals the extent to which gender and sexual rights are being reversed in a global...
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New research published today in the IDS Bulletin reveals the extent to which gender and sexual rights are being reversed in a global...
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Far from seeing continued steady progress on gender equality, we are currently witnessing significant backlash against gender and sexual...
Nearly three decades ago the UN World Conference on Women at Beijing appeared to be uniting the international community around the...
Despite a rich cultural tradition of gender-fluidity, the transgender community in India have been stigmatised as a ‘criminal tribe’...
The Brazil IDS Initiative provides focus in a geography at the leading edge of development thinking and practice due...
Global progress on gender equality is under threat. We are living in an age where major political and social shifts are resulting in new...
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Profound social and economic transitions over the past 30 years have shaped women’s lives and opportunities in Egypt, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Ukraine in varying ways. Much less is known about men’s experiences of economic transition and reactions to the diverse changes in women’s circumstances.
Despite a progressive legal framework and social and human resources policies aimed at benefiting women in Turkey, their labour force participation has remained low. Female entrepreneurship has become seen as a solution to increasing women’s role in the economy, whilst the role of men has typically not been factored into this.
In both policy-oriented and scholarly literatures on the gender dimensions of the social and economic transitions in Kazakhstan of the past 30 years, men and their gendered experiences of transitions are scarcely discussed.
Gender and development research in Egypt tends to frame questions about men solely in terms of barriers to women’s economic advancement. Only recently have questions been raised about men’s own gendered experiences and attitudes, and how they experience the changes in gender relations created by women’s empowerment.