Millennium development goals. 2006 report: a look at gender equality and empowerment of women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

User Manual for the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

National mechanism for gender equality and empowerment of women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía

The gender perspective in economic and labour policies: state of the art in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Gender, the environment and the sustainability of development

Includes bibliography

The institutionality of gender in the State: new analytical perspectives

Includes bibliography

Gender, pensions and social citizenship in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Capabilities and gender: a sum or system of inequalities? The case of Chile

Includes bibliography

Roads towards gender equity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Rapport de la vidéoconférence des institutions spécialisées et autres organisations du système des Nations Unies sur les préparatifs de l'observatoire de la parité du genre en Amérique Latine et dans les Caraïbes

Inclut la bibliographie

Report of the International Meeting on Gender Statistics and Indicators for Measuring the Incidence of and Trends in Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The International Meeting on Gender Statistics and Indicators for Measuring the Incidence of and Trends in Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean met from 21 to 23 November 2001 in La Paz, Bolivia. The meeting was attended by statisticians and specialists in gender studies on violence against women from various countries of the region, specialists of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations as well as international cooperation agencies. Once the group work sessions had concluded, the specialists adopted a series of political and technical recommendations addressed to national statistical institutes, national Women's offices, victim services, Women's organizations and international cooperation agencies.

Concepções de médicos/as e enfermeiros/as sobre questões de gênero na saúde

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Gender and the Millennium Development Goals

It has now been five years since the landmark United Nations Millennium Declaration and related Development Goals (MDGs), wad adopted by Member States. The Declaration is a blueprint for action and has created a political momentum which holds great potential not only for improving the rights and empowerment of women, but more fundamentally for achieving the MDGs. The targets and indicators represent concrete benchmarks to measure progress on the eight development goals. The 2000 Millennium Declaration commits States to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women as effective ways to combat poverty, hunger, disease and to stimulate development that is truly sustainable. The acknowledgement that the achievement of women’s rights and equality is central to the achievement of social and economic development is a significant achievement. This issue of Gender Dialogue, looks at gender equality and women’s empowerment and the achievement of the MDGs.

Mulher comerciária e sindicalismo: relações de gênero, relações de poder (um estudo de caso em Belém do Pará)

Esta dissertação pesquisa a participação sociopolítica das comerciárias na direção do Sindicato dos Empregados no Comércio do Pará - SEC/PA fundado em 1926. Em 1954-1956 a primeira mulher assume uma diretoria seguindo-se hiatos dessa presença; 1963-1965 participam três mulheres e novo hiato; 1972-1984, quatro sindicalistas assumem o poder. Na atualidade são oito mulheres entre dezenove diretores, ao todo 116 homens e 18 mulheres na direção. Interessa avaliar os condicionantes dessa situação, supondo-se que a sub-representação feminina deve-se às atividades extra-profissionais e ao padrão cultural sexista persistente nas instituições. Baseado na análise de gênero bidimensional de Fraser, conclui-se que a baixa presença feminina no poder sindical articula-se a fenômenos explicitados nas respostas das lideranças sobre representações dos papéis masculino/feminino desmistificando a ideologia do trabalho feminino como apoio ao masculino. Embora sendo o espaço sindical masculino e nele transitem os dois sexos, urge criar condições paritárias numa junção classe/gênero pautando na agenda sindical demandas femininas, assim gênero faz diferença.

O gênero nas ciências da saúde: produção e reprodução de concepções sobre a diferença entre homens e mulheres

The historical and social process has built models of masculinity and femininity that culminate in standards and norms to be followed by individuals in their social interactions. In recent decades studies based on the discussions that originated in the feminist movement have been investigating how social institutions, including medicine and other health sciences, have established standards of masculinity and femininity throughout the history, nurturing this sexist discourse on common sense and sciences. Social roles are assigned to the genera specifying rigid boundaries of behavior and social control. The notion of the female predisposition to physical and emotional disorders has prompted speculation within academic strands culminating in the creation of specialized medical illness that would prevent the female, the male permeated by notions of endurance and strength has become synonymous of a healthy body, confirming the male domination and the economic and political role of men. This research concerned to study and investigate through semi-structured interviews and content analysis, conceptions of gender and the differences between men and women in reports of 11 health professionals. The results indicate that in large part the conceptions of health professionals reproduce the hegemonic discourse about what being a man and woman. Further research could investigate the relationship between women and men with health care as well the care provided by health professionals