Gender talk series - IOE
Gender perspective in Rural Finance - dynamics between rural finance and transformative change of women empowerment
The current Rural Finance Policy is sufficiently broad and generic and encompasses many pertinent themes. However, changes in the global environment require coverage of more recent issues. The fact...
Intersections of Gender and Marital Status in Accessing Climate Change Adaptation
Climate scholars are increasingly recognizing the importance of gender in climate change vulnerability, but often either dichotomize men and women as homogeneous categories or limit themselves to...
Gender identities and masculinities
Gender identities and masculinities emerge from feminist theory, research and practice This approach questions universal and absolute categories such as male and female, and is grounded in an...
The Purple Economy and achieving the IFAD gender policy objective on equitable workloads
The term Purple Economy was coined to highlight the neglected and undervalued nature of the care economy in mainstream economics and the resulting adverse effects of inequality (class). Care work...
Feminist evaluations and gender transformative evaluations
A feminist evaluation is grounded on the understanding that discrimination based on gender identity is structural and systemic and that social justice in any context can be achieved only with...
Measuring women’s empowerment in rural development
We can identify three dimensions of women’s empowerment. Micro level (intrinsic agency), meso level (instrumental agency), and macro level (collective agency). Methodologies to assess women’s...