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Making Women Work for Development - Again

Rosalind Eyben discusses whether the recent trend in global policy towards market-led growth is squeezing out gender inequality. See Global Hub News.

Women Treading the Corridors of Corporate Power
Stephanie Barrientos' research is looking at cases where women's concerns have been given some voice in mainstream commercial corridors of power. See Global Hub Research

The Global Hub 'Exploring Positive Approaches to Sexuality' project co-organised a workshop on Sexuality and the Development Industry at IDS from 3-5 April 2008. See Global Hub News.

Global Hub

Comoros, schoolgirls look at globe

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The global hub of the Pathways RPC is concerned with the actors, norms, beliefs, ideas, networks and institutions associated with global policy processes that impact on women’s empowerment. Its aim is to work with and support those feminists active in global arenas – in civil society networks, inside governments, in international development agencies, academia or in the media – with new ideas and knowledge for making more informed decisions as to where and how to invest their energies and thus through their actions be more fruitful in supporting the construction of pathways of women’s empowerment.

The hub sees the term 'global' as a venue for exploring ideas and actions that may be relatively autonomous from what happens within the boundaries of a single country or region. Thus it is not just aggregate of many locals, or ‘large scale’, but the global is researchable from a range of scales and intensity of magnification, bearing in mind that different disciplines – economics, political science, anthropology, geography - offer a variety of methodologies for handling these differences in scale.

For more information on how the hub conceptualises the term 'global' see the 'Scoping Report: Programme of Research into Global Policy Processes' (pdf file 195 KB).