Online resources

Gender Action: Economic reforms and Gender.

ILO: Globalization, economic policy and employment: Poverty and gender implications, 2006.

ILO: Global employment trends for women 2007, March 8 2007. (French, Spanish)
This is a particularly relevant report. Increases in labour force participation by women have not always been matched by improvements in job quality and working conditions for women have not led to true social and economic empowerment.

UNIFEM: Women, Poverty and Economics.

United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics: Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries, 2006.

World Bank: Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A briefing on the Action Plan for Women’s Economic Empowerment.
The focus in this document is to accelerate the implementation of Millennium Development Goal 3 on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment by advancing women’s economic empowerment.

World Economic Forum: Global Gender Gap Report, 2006.

Suggested reading and viewing

Martha Chen, Joann Vanek et al. (2005) UNIFEM Progress of the World's Women 2005 Overview of Women/Work/&/ Poverty. New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women.

Flannery, Tim, 2006: The Weather Makers, Atlantic Monthly Press, 357 pp.

Gore, Al, 2006: An Inconvenient Truth, Rodale Press, 328 pp.

Kolbert, Elizabeth, 2006: Field notes from a catastrophe, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 201 pp.

Lovins, Amory, 200: Natural Capitalism, Black Bay Books, 396 pp.