Organizing Rural Women

Author : Margaret Kechnie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Rural women
ISBN : 0773526048

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Organizing Rural Women by Margaret Kechnie Pdf

Kechnie places the WI within the context of the country life movement emanating from the United States, arguing that Ontario farm women's attempts to organize should be viewed as part of the Department of Agriculture's efforts to revive the flagging fortunes of the Farmers' Institutes and encourage farm women to embrace "scientific home management" in order to modernize farm homes and discourage the depopulation of Ontario's farms. While many men and women within the farm community supported the government's attempts to encourage "book farming," many others resisted the state's educational initiatives and identified with the independent farm movement. In order to ensure the success of the WI the Ontario Department of Agriculture provided funds to hire organizers and the organization was encouraged to develop branches outside farming areas, even if this meant ignoring the needs of farm women. By the end of the World War I the WI had become one of the largest women's organizations in the province but was widely known not for its emphasis on scientific home management but for its community activism.

Author : Kathleen A. Staudt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Women
ISBN : UIUC:30112041476018

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Women's Organizations in Rural Development by Kathleen A. Staudt Pdf

Research paper on the political participation of rural women in women's associations and rural development in developing countries - following a literature survey, stresses importance of political power, examines voting, sexual division of labour, female Elite participation in elected office, bureaucracy and political partys, obstacles such as the political system, problems in organization building, lack of incentives, cooptation, organizational skill development, etc. References pp. 64 to 71.

Author : Eileen Boris,Dorothea Hoehtker,Susan Zimmermann
Publisher : Studies in Global Social Histo
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9004360395

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Women's ILO by Eileen Boris,Dorothea Hoehtker,Susan Zimmermann Pdf

What is the place of women in global labour policies? 'Women?s ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present' gathers new research on a century of ILO engagement with women?s work. It asks: what was the role of women?s networks in shaping ILO policies and what were the gendered meanings of international labour law in a world of uneven and unequal development? Intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary, Women?s ILO explores gendered dynamics on issues like equal remuneration, home-based labour, and social welfare and practices in places like Argentina, Italy, Ghana, and internationally, expanding the boundaries of feminism, charting the disparate advancement of gender equity, and highlighting the significant role of women experts and activists in these processes.

Author : Mangala Subramaniam
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0739113283

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The Power of Women's Organizing by Mangala Subramaniam Pdf

The sociologist Mangala Subramanian researched the women's movement in India since the 1970s in the context of globalization with attention to class, caste, religious and geographic influences. The book presents case studies of different programs of empowerment and the dalit movement.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Fao
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015043404444

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Rural Women and Food Security by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

At the World Food Summit in 1996, governments acknowledged the fundamental contribution of women to food security, and agreed to promote women's' full and equal participation in the economy. This documents provides an overview of the roles of women as key actors for sustainable rural development, as food producers and consumers, in the context of global and regional agricultural trends.

Author : Valerie Sperling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521669634

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Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia by Valerie Sperling Pdf

A rich and clearly-written analysis of the women's movement in contemporary Russia.

Author : Veronica Marie Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCSD:31822021199922

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Obstacles to the Organization of Rural Women in Mexico by Veronica Marie Wilson Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251088104

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Running Out of Time: The Reduction of women's work burden in agricultural production by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Based on a broad literature review, this publication discusses rural women’s time poverty in agriculture, elaborates on its possible causes and implications and provides insight into the various types of constraints that affect the adoption of solutions for reducing work burden. This paper raises questions about the adequacy of women’s access to technologies, services and infrastructure and about the control women have over their time, given their major contributions to agriculture. It also look s into the available labour-saving technologies, practices and services that can support women to better address the demands derived from the domestic and productive spheres and improve their well-being. The reader is presented with an overview of successfully-tested technologies, services and resource management practices in the context of water, energy, information and communication. The findings elaborated in this paper feed a set of recommendations provided for policy makers and development partners. A gender-transformative approach at community and household level is suggested as a way forward to promote women’s increased control over the allocation of their time.

Author : Ruth B. Dixon-Mueller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135994143

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Rural Women at Work by Ruth B. Dixon-Mueller Pdf

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251313800

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Investing in information and communication technologies to reach gender equality and empower rural women by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have made information available to more people than ever before. These advances have also substantially increased their capacity to connect with each other in a continuously expanding number of ways. Rural women are currently (and have always been) last in line in terms of ICT access and use, even though women stand more to gain than most from active participation and engagement with these resources. Evidence suggests that the ICT sector is both urban- and male-centric, ranging from the design of ICTs to the gender of sector employees and decision-makers. Representation in the media is also predominantly male. The aim of this paper is to bring rural communities, and women and other marginalized groups in particular, back into the centre of conversations on ICTs and ICT4D.

Author : Jacqueline B. Mondros,Joan Minieri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231548335

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Organizing for Power and Empowerment by Jacqueline B. Mondros,Joan Minieri Pdf

Through entirely new interviews, Organizing for Power and Empowerment: The Fight for Democracy features the voices and experiences of more than forty organizers, telling the stories of twenty geographically and racially diverse progressive organizations. The authors highlight how organizations use innovative new strategies, like targeting corporate expansion, operating at statewide levels, building new structures for electoral action, and establishing community-labor coalitions to win on such critical issues as worker protections, bail reform, immigration, climate change, and affordable housing. The book describes organizations working across a range of issues. The organizers discuss campaigns that activate people around issues that matter in their daily lives—work schedules, bail reform, schools, voting, and affordable housing—and connect them to broader topics such as racial justice, immigration, climate change, criminal justice, and workers’ rights. They share their thoughts on building community organizations and empowering ordinary citizens to become leaders. The book underscores the leadership of Black Americans, other people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ people as they lead campaigns to address the disparate effects of inequality faced by their communities. It provides detailed analysis of the new and effective organizational structures and change strategies, and sheds important new light on foundational organizing practices, innovations, and the challenges and opportunities for progressive social action today.

Author : Carmen Diana Deere,Magdalena Leon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000310535

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Rural Women And State Policy by Carmen Diana Deere,Magdalena Leon Pdf

First published in 1987. An evaluation of the decade, in conjunction with the 45th International Congress of Americanists, hosted by the University. of Los Andes in Bogotaì, Colombia, in July, 1985. This book grew out of a collaborative effort by North American, European, and Latin American researchers to synthesize what we have learned about the position of rural women in Latin America over the past decade.

Author : Eileen Boris,Dorothea Hoehtker,Susan Zimmerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004360433

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Women's ILO by Eileen Boris,Dorothea Hoehtker,Susan Zimmerman Pdf

Women’s ILO examines a century-long history of women and their networks involved in and with the ILO, the gendered meaning of labour standards, and the challenges of achieving gender equity through international labour law, transnational campaigns, and local labour policies.

Author : Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Rural women
ISBN : OCLC:741788691

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Why belong to a rural women's organization? by Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather Pdf

Author : Margaret H. Martens,Swasti Mitter
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 922108759X

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Women in Trade Unions by Margaret H. Martens,Swasti Mitter Pdf

This work offers a varied collection of case studies, from both developing and developed countries, on organizing women workers at national and local level in areas that are difficult to organize - small-scale enterprises, the rural and urban informal sectors, home work, domestic service and export processing zones.; This book is a source of material, lessons and ideas for all those involved in, or planning to embark on, such initiatives.