Globalization

Globalization—as a political, economic and cultural trend—continues to have a mixed impact on women. Although it is strengthening promotion of gender equality around the world, it is also in many cases widening the gulf between rich and poor, accelerating environmental degradation and increasing the workloads of women and girls. The expanding global marketplace is increasing women’s employment opportunities but also producing jobs that may be temporary, unsafe or exploitive. Furthermore, economic reform programs imposed on developing countries by international financial institutions have often eroded critical services, such as public health and education programs, thereby increasing the caregiving burdens of women and girls. While globalization has opened up new avenues for some women, it has also led to increased hardship for others.

Women 2012: Taking a Worldwide Reading

Women 2012: Taking a Worldwide Reading on Tuesday, March 6th, at Federal Reserve Bank of New York. To read the event press release, click here. Photos by Don Pollard for NCRW. CLICK ON FIRST PHOTO to activate slideshow.

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Dinah Asante is Executive Assistant to the President. She has an M.S. in Urban Policy from the New School and studied at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada and the State University of New York, Old Westbury from which she received a B.S. in Marketing. She conducted research for the Women's HIV Collaborative of New York and for the Supportive Housing Network of New York. Dinah has private sector experience in the U.K. and U.S. and has held administrative positions for companies in Accra, London, and Ottawa. She also taught French in Ghana.

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In Mexico and Around the Globe Women are Moving into Senior Leadership Positions

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On a sunny afternoon in late March, before an audience of 1,200 students at the Tec de Monterrey’s satellite campus just outside of Mexico City, Josefina Vazquez Mota, the first female presidential candidate in the country’s history, talked about her campaign. “Michelle Bachelet [the former president of Chile] gave me some great advice, she said ‘never put on a mustache to govern, govern as a woman.’”

Editorial:

From Forbes:

Josefina Vazquez Mota is already the first woman ever to serve as Mexico’s Secretary of Education and Secretary of Social Development.

A few weeks earlier, when she accepted the nomination from the country’s PAN party, she told the crowd “I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.”

In a recent article, Shannon O’Neil, a Mexico expert from the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in New York, explained “This is a historic nomination, it has the potential to change the dynamics of the presidential race.”

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Source:

Forbes

URL:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2012/03/26/in-mexico-and-around-the-globe-women-are-moving-into-senior-leadership-positions/

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March 27, 2012

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Women at the frontline of climate change - Gender risks and hopes

Submitted by asklar on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:52am

Women are often in the frontline in respect to the impacts of a changing climate. Globally the world is seeing increasingly frequent droughts and floods which are having economic but also profound social consequences. The women and people of Asia are currently at greatest risk with over 100 million people affected in this region annually.

URL:

http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/women-and-climate-change/

Guide to World Water Day

Teaser:

Women's Environment & Development Organization's guide to water and gender.

Editorial:

From WEDO:

Water for Life
Water vital natural resource and a human right, and the right and access to clean, safe water is intrinsically linked to gender equality. From the miles & hours women and girls spend collecting water– the implications this has on their health, education and economic opportunity– to the threat of climate change on water resources affecting all aspects of women’s and men’s lives, it is clear that water is a human rights and women’s rights issue.

We must use World Water Day to call attention to this precious resource and ask ourselves some important questions: What if you didn’t have access to safe water for your family? What could you do with 6 hours a day? What actions are we taking to make water accessible to all?

On World Water Day, WEDO reminds you to protect this vital natural resource and work towards a world which promotes and protects the human right to water.

Get the Facts
(2011) WEDO on “Women and the Right to Water“- UN Human Rights Council
(2011) WEDO Recognizes World Water Day 2011
(2009) Climate Change Connections
(2006) Women’s Caucus Declaration: 4th World Water Forum
(2005) Women’s Major Group Statement on Access to Basic Water Services
(2003) Diverting the Flow
(2003) Untapped Connections
(1998) Women Transform the Mainstream

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Women's Environment & Development Organization

URL:

http://www.wedo.org/news/guide-to-world-water-day

Date:

March 22, 2012

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Building Women’s Meaningful Participation in the Scale-Up of Vertical Transmission Programmes

Submitted by asklar on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:41am

The Center for Women Policy Studies is very pleased to share with you the Briefing Paper from our sisters at the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) and the AIDS Legal Network (ALN), South Africa.

URL:

http://www.womenandaids.net/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=c7ce0acd-8ac1-4c34-9098-c77096279025&disposition=inline

Female longevity offset by gender gaps

Teaser:

Women outlive men, while lagging behind.

That was the parallax view presented last week at an annual summing up by the National Council for Research on Women, a New York-based network of 100 leading U.S. research policy and advocacy centers, which held a panel here at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Editorial:

From TrustLaw:

Linda Basch, president of the National Council for Research on Women, pointed out women's larger share of poverty. "About 1.2 billion people worldwide--70 percent of them women--live in poverty," Basch said. "In the United States, the poverty rate of women rose to 14.5 percent in 2010, the highest in 17 years, so we have a way to go before gender equity is achieved."

Another disparity is domestic violence. While many higher-income countries have enacted laws, some developing nations still condone wife beating if the woman argues with her husband, refuses to have sex, or burns food.

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Source:

TrustLaw

URL:

http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/female-longevity-hampered-by-gender-gaps

Date:

March 17, 2012

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Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women. She received her BA and MA from the University of Chicago, and her PhD from Northwestern University. Tripp has published numerous books and articles on women’s movements in Africa and internationally, global feminism, gender and politics in Africa and globally, and on women in post-conflict African countries. She co-edits a book series with Stanlie James on Women in Africa and the Diaspora for the University of Wisconsin Press. She served as co-editor of the journal Politics & Gender from 2007-2010. She is currently president of the African Studies Association.

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World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development

Submitted by asklar on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 10:18am

The 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development finds that women's lives around the world have improved dramatically, but gaps remain in many areas. The authors use a conceptual framework to examine progress to date, and then recommend policy actions.

URL:

http://go.worldbank.org/CQCTMSFI40

Female Longevity Offset by Lethal Gender Gaps

Teaser:

Women outlive men, while lagging behind.

Editorial:

From Women's eNews:

Since 1980, women have lived longer than men in all parts of the world. In low-income countries, women now live 20 years longer, on average, than they did in 1980. In addition, over half a billion women have joined the world labor force.

At the same time, however, girls and women are often still treated as more expendable.

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Source:

Women's eNews

URL:

http://womensenews.org/story/equalitywomen%E2%80%99s-rights/120313/female-longevity-offset-lethal-gender-gaps

Date:

March 14, 2012

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