women’s empowerment

Gender and sustainable development: still a missing link?

Gender and sustainable development: still a missing link?

By Making It on 10 September, 2012

Post Rio+20, Ipsita Kumar reflects on the need to address the continued gap between the social and the environmental.

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Earth Summit, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Ipsita Kumar, knowledge-based institutions, land rights, Rebecca Lefton, rio+20, sustainable development, TERI, UN Women, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, women, women's empowerment, women's rights, Women’s Major Group

Solutions to the gender pay gap

Solutions to the gender pay gap

By Making It on 11 January, 2012

Governments, industry and businesses need to create more family friendly workplaces and workplace policies

Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged anti-discrimination laws and changes in policies of companies and businesses worldwide, better data and analysis, better salaries, childcare arrangements, complex problem, earning, éducation, flexible hours, gender issue, gender pay gap, higher education, improvements to existing legal frameworks, Industrial Development Organization, issue 8, Making It, negotiation, paid leave of absence for sickness and family care, parental leave, policy brief, power, reduce pay gap, Soroptimist International of the Americas, supporting working families, training women to ask for more pay, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, vocational training, women's empowerment, workplace, younger generation of women

Gender-sensitive industrial development

Gender-sensitive industrial development

By Making It on 10 January, 2012

Investing in gender-sensitive development affects productivity, efficiency and sustained economic growth, as well as strengthens women’s rights

Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, business management, cosmetics, economic potential of women, education systems, enhancing competitiveness, entrepreneurial activities, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, finance, gender issue, Gender Mainstreaming Steering Committee, gender-sensitive employment creation, inclusive globalization, industrial development for poverty reduction, Industrial Development Organization, institutionalize, internationalization, investment in care services, issue 8, local raw materials, Making It magazine, Mali, market-information, modernity, Morocco, off-grid energy sources, policy advice, producing shea products, product certification and marketing, productive resources, skills, strengthening business support services, sustainable energy, technical cooperation programmes, technology, uganda, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, women's empowerment

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