Decentralization Fails Women in Sudan 2008-11
In Sudan, decentralization has had profound effects on the lives of women and girls.

India's Missing Daughters 2006-05
A new study estimates that 10 million girls have gone “missing” from India’s population since 1985 because of the practice of selectively aborting female fetuses. Dr Prabhat Jha says the new calculation shows the need for a range of social policies to reverse a potentially disastrous future imbalance in the male/female ratio of India’s population.

Rural Women in the Wired World 2006-03
Women living in rural areas are at a particular disadvantage in the digital world — facing multiple barriers related both to gender and location. But there is hope. In 2005, for instance, the small grants fund GenARDIS received some 300 applications to fund projects aimed at breaking down barriers separating rural women from the benefits of ICTs.

Addressing Barriers to Empowering Women: A South Asian Perspective 2005-05-13
Ten years after the UN’s World Conference on Women in Beijing, women’s movements around the world have made progress in securing women’s basic human rights. However, notes Ratna Kapur, Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi, violence against women remains an enormous problem.

Engendering Macroeconomic Policies 2005-03-07
Is macroeconomic analysis gender-neutral? Many economists and others think not. Nilufer Cagatay is helping to train senior economists to consider gender in their approach to macroeconomics and international economic policy.

Telecentres: From Idea to Reality in Mozambique 2003-11-17
What should a telecentre look like? In Mozambique, researchers from the University Eduardo Mondlane turned to the community for an answer. The result was a one-stop shop with everything from telephones and photocopying services to computer training. The project is having spillover effects as women's organizations avail themselves of some of the services offered. But although the telecentres are valued by the communities, their future remains uncertain due to the high cost of Internet and the need to become self-sustainable.

Gender Researcher Seeks Answers on South African Campuses 2003-07-21
In South Africa, post-secondary education is one of only a few tickets to upward mobility, and students endure enormous economic and personal pressures to graduate. Succeeding on campus means facing powerfully entrenched ideas tied to gender and heterosexuality, according to Dr Jane Bennett, gender researcher and director of the African Gender Institute, based at the University of Cape Town. She’s urging much more work be undertaken on gender equity and gender violence in a specifically African context.

New Hope for Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon 2003-01-24
Palestinian women refugees are getting a chance to go to university — and are studying subjects traditionally dominated by men — as a result of a scholarship program supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Through Farmers' Eyes 2001-11-09
Using first-person stories and pictures taken by women farmers, the book Gender, Land, and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through Farmers' Eyes documents the lives of women in Western Kenya as they struggle to sustain their soils and their livelihoods. Through Farmers' Eyes provides links to an interview with the book's author, Ritu Verma, as well as a slide show, an audio file, and other online resources.