Reports and Publications

• Girls on the Move: Adolescent Girls & Migration in the Developing World (May 2013, Population Council)

• Report on Progress on equality between women and men in 2012 (May 2013, The European Commission)

• The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles (2013, by Victor Gay, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut and Amir Shoham)

• Accessing justice: Models, strategies and best practices on women's empowerment (2013, IDLO)

• Economic crises and women’s work, exploring progressive strategies in a rapidly changing global environment (January 2013, UN Women publication)

• Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil: A Long-Run Analysis (January 2013, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6348)

• Women's Rights Under Egypt's Constitutional Disarray (January 2013, Wilson Center)

• Working without fear: Results of the Sexual Harassment National Telephone Survey (October 2012, Australian Human Rights Commission)

• 2012 Global Food Policy Report (2012, IFPRI)

• Decent Work and Women's Economic Empowerment: Good Policy and Practice (2012, UN Women Policy Brief)

• Empowering Women: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan (November 2012, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6269)

• Accelerating growth: Women in science and technology in the Arab Middle East (October 2012, The Economist Intelligence Unit]

• EFA Global Monitoring Report 2012 (2012, UNESCO - Education for All,)

• Fulfilling the Promise: How More Women on Corporate Boards Would Make America and American Companies More Competitive (2012, U.S. Committee for economic development)

• Tackling the root causes of gender inequalities in the post-2015 development agenda (October 2012, OECD Development Centre)

• Using Research on the Status of Women to Improve Public Policies in the Middle East and North Africa: A Capacity-Building Toolkit for Nongovernmental Organizations (2012, Institute for Women's Policy Research)

• Women in Business: Policies to Support Women's Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region (October 2012, OECD)

• Women, research and universities: excellence without gender bias, July 2012 (League of European Research Universities)

• Mothers’ Employment and their Children’s Schooling: A Joint Multilevel Analysis for India, May 2012 (World Development)

• Every woman’s right: how family planning saves children’s lives, 2012 (Save the Children)

• Do female/male distinctions in language matter? Evidence from Gender Political Quotas (V. Gay, E. Santacreu-Vasut, A. Shoham, forthcoming at Applied Economic Letters)

• Engendering Empowerment: Education & Equality, April 2012 (UNGEI)

• Mapping the Legal Gender Gap in Getting a Job, April 2012 (Women, Business and the Law, World Bank Group)

• Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context, April 2012 (UNRISD)

• Women Matter: Making the Breakthrough, March 2012 (McKinsey&Company)

• Land rights and food security: The linkages between secure land rights, women, and improved household food security and nutrition, March 2012 (Issue Brief, LANDESA)

• World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education, March 2012 (UNESCO)

• Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy, March 2012 (USAID)

• The Effects of Gender Quotas in Latin American National Elections, February 2012 (University of Gothenburg)

• The price of motherhood: women and part-time work, February 2012 (Resolution Foundation)

• Putting Gender on the Map: Methods for Mapping Gendered Farm Management Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, January 2012 (IFPRI Discussion Paper 01153)

• Gender Indicators, Australia, January 2012 (Australian Bureau of Statistics)

• Gender and Skills Development: A Review, January 2012 (UNGEI Working Paper No.04)

• The Role of Social Media in Arab Women’s Empowerment, November 2011 (Dubai School of Government, Arab Social Media Report series, Vol. 1, No. 3)

• Psychosocial Care For Women In Shelter Homes, 2011 (UNODC)

• Girls Take Over: Long-term Impacts of an Early Stage Education Intervention in the Philippines, December 2011 (IFPRI Discussion Paper 01144)

• The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights, December 2011 (NBER Working Paper Series)

• Health and the Political Agency of Women, December 2011 (IZA, Bonn DP No. 6216)

• Impact evaluation of drinking water supply and sanitation programmes in rural Benin, The risk of vanishing effects, November 2011 (by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands and BMZ)

• Evaluation of Danida’s ‘Women in Africa’ regional support initiative, June 2011 (by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark)

• Gender Review : Royal Norwegian Embassy Pakistan (NORAD)

• Preventing gender-biased sex selection An interagency - statement OHCHR, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and WHO (who)

• The Gender Pay Gap in Europe from a Legal Perspective - French English (European Commission)

• The Haiti Gender Shadow Report,  Ensuring Haitian Women’s Participation and Leadership in All Stages of National Relief and Reconstruction (Gender Action)

• Women's labour migration in the context of globalisation (WIDE)

• Gender Disparities in African Labor Markets Caused by Jobs Scarcity, Not Discrimination – World Bank Study (The World Bank)

• Women, politics and quotas – more than a numbers game (Institute of Development Studies)

• Gendered Aspects of Globalization (Levi Economic Institute of Bard College)

• UNDP - MDG Reports

• ESCWA - Women´s control over economic and financial resources

• WHO - Counselling for maternal and newborn health care: A handbook for building skills

              - Packages of Interventions for Family Planning, Safe Abortion care, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

• A Special Issue of the journal Third World Quarterly, guest-edited by UNRISD researchers Shahra Razavi and Anne Jenichen, forthcoming in autumn 2010: The Unhappy Marriage of Religion and Politics - Problems and Pitfalls for Gender Equality.

• Developmental Leaders Elites And Coalitions -  Integrity, leadership, women's coalitions and the politics of institutional reform. Bringing agency back in.   PDF version 

• Women's Economic Opportunity - A new pilot index and global ranking from the Economist Intelligence Unit - Findings and methodology
  

• Amnesty International Insecurity and indignity - Women's Experiences in the Slums of Nairobi, Kenya

• Women for Women International : Ending Violence Against Women in Eastern Congo: Preparing Men to Advocate for Women’s Rights

• The Nordic Africa Institute, Conflict, Displacement and Transformation : The Complexity of Violence: A critical analysis of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

 

• Human Rights Watch : Unaccountable - Addressing Reproductive Health Care Gaps

• Freedom House  : Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa 2010   see also - an extract summarizing findings

• Women's Initiative for Gender Justice : In Pursuit of Peace

• Women's Environment & Development organization (WEDO) : Common Ground - Women’s Access to Natural Resources and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals

• International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) : What men have to do with it - Public Policies to Promote Gender Equality
  

• The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) : Men are changing : Case study evidence on work with men and boys to promote gender equality and positive masculinities

• Amnesty International Ending Female Genital Mutilation - A Strategy for the European Union Institutions"

• Paz y Desarrollo and Enjambra:"Gender Analysis of Women’s Political Participation in 7 South-East Asian Countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, East Timor and Vietnam"

• City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development ; New report reveals lack of training for women smallholders in developping countries: Training for Rural Development: Agriculture and Entreprise Skills for Women Smallholders
  

• World Bank Group new gender publication: Women, Business and the Law 2010

• International Labor Organisation Women in labour markets:Measuring progress and identifying challenges, March 2010

• The global campaign to stop killing and stonig women: Violence against Women in the Name of Culture, Religion, and TraditionViolence is not our culture, March 2010

• World Economic Forum - The Corporate Gender Gap Report 2010, Geneva 2010.

• Equality Means Business a joint initiative of UNIFEM and the UN Global Compact : Women’s Empowerment Principles

• International Center for Research on Women: New Report Analyzes How National Policies Can Engage Men in Achieving Gender Equality What men have to do with it - Public Policies to Promote Gender Equality

• Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF), Early Marriage in Afghanistan, 2008.

• The European Women's Lobby Beijing+15 Report on the Activities of the European Union: From Beijing to Brussels, an unfinished journey. The global movement for women’s rights in 2010 marks 15 years of activism on the basis of the shared framework and vision enshrined in the groundbreaking Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).

• German Institute for Economic Research: Investments: Women are more cautious than men because they have less financial resources at their disposal

• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Gender and Sustainable Development, Maximising the economic, social and environmental role of women