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Empowering Work


How are women in different categories of work trying to reposition themselves in public (including markets) and domestic spheres to change attitudes, break barriers, achieve recognition, enhance their bargaining power and exercise their rights at home and at work?

Work under this theme will explore:

    • how the sexual division of labour in the domestic sphere is being restructured and at how the disconnect between women’s paid and unpaid work can be reduced

    • how women as economic actors, cross-border traders and migrants can enhance their incomes, influence, assets and personal safety, especially in post conflict contexts

    • how women’s rights as workers and caregivers can be enhanced, and what mechanisms and forms of recognition can best support women’s work as a tool for empowerment

    • how women workers organize to claim rights and recognition

    Latest

    Conditional Cash Transfers

    Dr Hania Sholkamy (Convenor of the Pathways Middle East Hub) and her team at the Social Research Center, American University in Cairo are collaborating with the Ministry of Social Solidarity to implement Egypt's first conditional cash transfer programme. The pilot was launched in March 2009 in the Cairene slum of Ain es-Sira. For more information see IDS News also read the report from the 'Introducing Empowering Conditional Cash Transfers to Egypt' held in Cairo in January 2008.

    Organising Women in the Informal Economy

    The Institute of Social Studies Trust and Pathways of Women's Empowerment jointly convened a workshop on 'Organising Women in the Informal Economy: Lessons from Practice' held in Delhi from 20-21 October 2008. Participants included academics, activists and practitioners who discussed the experience of organisations of women workers beyond the formal economy. See report from the workshop (pdf file 73 KB).

    Link to Institute of Social Studies Trust