What makes change happen in women’s lives?
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Pathways of Women’s Empowerment is an international research and communications programme established in 2006 which links academics with activists and practitioners to find out what works to enhance women’s empowerment. We are identifying where women are achieving real gains and discovering the positive and negative factors which have influenced their journey. Pathways is funded by the UK Department for International Development with additional financing from the Norwegian and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from UNIFEM.
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New Publications from Pathways
New Issue of Contestations: Sexual Pleasure Empowers Women! - Or does it? Read the debate in this contentious second issue of Contestations, with the lead article from Susie Jolly.
Chinese translation of the Sexual Pleasure Empowers Women! issue
Mapping Women's Empowerment Launch
Pathways South Asia enjoyed a successful launch of their new book 'Mapping Women's Empowerment: Experiences from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan', organised by BRAC Development Institute and held at the CIRDAP Auditorium in Dhaka on 8 July. It received coverage in the local newspapers and also featured in television evening news broadcasts.
The book is a collection of articles from eleven authors examining the enabling factors and barriers to women’s voice, work and bodily integrity in South Asia. It was developed from papers presented at the Pathways South Asia scoping workshop held in Dhaka in August 2006. 'Mapping Women's Empowerment' is edited by Firdous Azim and Maheen Sultan and published by University Press Limited. The book will appeal to anyone interested in issues of equal opportunity, gender discrimination and human rights in the Sub-Continent.
The new June issue of Development (53.2) focuses on Gender and Empowerment and features cutting edge research on women's empowerment from a critical angle as a key entry point in the process of rethinking human development. Articles by several Pathways researchers contextualise and conceptualise issues of empowerment within their regions. It also highlights some of the innovative communications work from Pathways including a photovoice project with domestic workers in Salvador, Brazil. See Development: Gender and Empowerment, see also Wendy Harcourt's editorial for the issue: Lady Gaga meets Ban Ki-Moon
“Across the globe women seem to rise above the most challenging circumstances” but we are less clear “about the pathways to empowerment” Professor Takyiwaa Manuh
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