Gender and Sustainable Development
"Are Women the Key to Sustainable Development", an SD Insights Brief published by the United Nations and Boston University in April 2010, discusses the enhanced potential to achieve sustainability in a world where women are not marginalized. Authored by Candice Stevens, see here.
The "Gender and Sustainable Development" brochure, published by the OECD in May 2008, summarises the OECD's cross-cutting work on gender and aims to increase understanding of the role of women in maintaining the three pillars – economic, social and environmental – of sustainable development. More information on the brochure here.
The special edition on Gender and Sustainable Development of the International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development (IJISD) was edited by former OECD Sustainable Development Advisor Candice Stevens and published as Volume 4 -- Number 2-3/2009. The abstracts of the articles on women and the economy, society and the environment can be read here.
