'El enfoque de género es una alternativa que implica abordar primero el análisis de las relaciones de género para basar en él, la toma de decisiones y acciones para el desarrollo. Hablar de género significa dejar de creer que los roles sociales y culturales asignados a hombres y mujeres son naturales, humanizando la visión de desarrollo, en donde el desarrollo debe basarse en la equidad de género.'

This paper provides a basis for establishing future research in the areas of migration and social protection in India. In this paper, authors use the 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey to examine correlations between the receipt of remittances from internal migrants and human capital investment in rural areas. They employ a propensity score–matching approach to account for the selectivity of households into receiving remittances. They interpret the results conservatively due more...

'Gender issues in many post-communist countries of Europe and Central Asia diverge significantly from other regions. Women live much longer than men in the Russian Federation and a number of other CIS countries; women in the region enjoy relatively high rates of labour-force participation; and unemployment rates are lower for women than for men in significant numbers of CIS and European countries.
This does not mean that women have not been affected adversely by the post-communist transition. L more...

'Russia’s economic and social transformation has not had the anticipated effects on women and men. At the beginning of the reform era, most commentators on gender in Russia predicted that women would be the primary casualties of reform. It was anticipated that unemployment would have a ‘female face’, that the wage gap would grow and that female labour participation was likely to fall. These predictions proved inaccurate. Despite sweeping economic change, continuity in gender trends in empl more...

'In Uzbekistan, as in many other CIS countries, the growing rural population has tried to compensate for poor access to non-agricultural employment by seeking temporary, informal employment in cities.'

Article from Development and Transition, a joint publication of UNDP and the London School of Economics. The issue is devoted to ‘Gender In Transition ’, to understand how transition and development affect women and men differently.

'Understanding the distribution of gender roles within families is crucial for identifying and addressing the gender dimensions of policies, programmes, and projects. While gender roles may seem constant over time, they are not carved in stone; they can change significantly with broader social developments, external shocks, or changes in family structures. Moldova’s massive labour migration, which has pushed some 30 percent of the labour force into working abroad, could constitute such a chang more...

'Both women and men have been affected by Poland’s transformation, but women have been disproportionately affected by job loss, unemployment, impoverishment, and gender discrimination. Emigration has enabled women to find new work opportunities across Europe as cleaners, nannies, care workers, and nurses. While this is a ‘success story’ of sorts, the exodus of young women is depleting Poland of its mothers and daughters and large swathes of human and social capital.'

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'The wars and social upheavals of the post-independence period in the South Caucasus and Central Asia have affected women and men differently. This makes a gender perspective on issues of peace and conflict relevant. Women often carry the bulk of the social hardship created by conflicts.'

Article from Development and Transition, a joint publication of UNDP and the London School of Economics. The issue is devoted to ‘Gender In Transition’, to understand how transition and development affe more...

'Reverse gender policies, setbacks in the feminist movement, low representation of women in leadership positions, the withdrawal of state support for childcare and parental leave: these alarming factors suggest that in transition countries women have experienced dramatic declines in their labour-market position. On the other hand, a good number of scholars argue that, despite these negative changes, women have managed to maintain their relative position vis-à-vis men, and that transition has ev more...

'Asian women migrant workers often migrate to the Arab States region under unsafe conditions, are targets of sexual exploitation and violence, and are highly vulnerable to factors that lead to HIV infection, says a study released by UNDP and the Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).'
Source: UNDP