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Maree Keating has worked as a programme manager and policy adviser for Oxfam GB.

Contents

Editorial (PDF, 135K)

‘Good jobs’ and hidden costs: women workers documenting the price of precarious employment - Thalia Kidder and Kate Raworth (PDF, 261K)

Global trade and home work: closing the divide - Annie Delaney (PDF, 168K)

Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China - Pun Ngai (PDF, 126K)

Being a female entrepreneur in Botswana: cultures, values, strategies for success - Peggy Ntseane (PDF, 168K)

Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA - Marceline White (PDF, 146K)

Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific? - Karin Ulmer (PDF, 144K)

TRIPS and Biodiversity: a gender perspective - Suman Sahai (PDF, 143K)

Women, trade and migration - Donn Flynn and Eleonore Kofman (PDF, 124K)

Gender, the Doha Development Agenda and the post-Cancun trade negotiations - Mariama Williams (PDF, 162K)

Corporate responsibility and women’s employment: the cashew nut case - Nazneen Kanji (PDF, 161K)

Resources: Publications, Journals, Electronic resources, Tools and websites, Organisations
(PDF, 128K)

PDF of whole book (PDF, 1,047K)

Related links

Please note, inclusion of these links does not imply that Oxfam agrees with or endorses statements made or opinions expressed in external websites.

• UNIFEM Gender and Trade Website provides accessible resources for understanding the relationship between Gender and Trade. It includes a ‘situational analysis’ of different issues related to gender and trade, such as: intellectual property rights, trade in services and women’s employment, and more.
• Focus on Trade - Can Trade Generate development for women? K.U.L.U. Women and Development
  This website is the result of a seminar on the importance of gender and trade in relation to the UN Conference Financing for Development (FfD) (2002).
• The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
• International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) is made up of seven regional networks (Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Pacific) of women involved in research, advocacy and economic literacy around issues of trade and development.
• Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA) is a regional network of feminists, individual researchers, activists and women's organizations, which defines feminist politics as a matter of both consciousness and action.
• The Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa Programme (GERA) is a pan-African research and advocacy programme established in 1996 by women from across Africa in order to influence economic policies and decision-making processes in Africa from a gender perspective.
• Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) was formed in 1984, on the eve of the international conferences marking the end of the UN Decade for Women, when a group of feminists from the South with similar visions prepared a platform document for that event and held a number of workshops at the NGO Forum in Nairobi.
• Woman’s International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ) is an international coalition representing organisations in all regions of the globe. WICEJ works to link gender with macro-economic policy in international inter-governmental policy-making arenas, from a human-rights perspective.
• Women Working Worldwide
  This organisation works with a global network of women worker organisations to support the rights of women workers in an increasingly globalised economy in which women are used as a source of cheap and flexible labour.
• Women’s Edge was created in 1998 to advocate for the needs of millions of women and poor people around the world left destitute and desperate by unfair trade policies.
• Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.

Other titles from Oxfam Publishing

Other titles from the Focus on Gender series, including:

Also from Oxfam Publishing:

• Trading Away our Rights
• Play Fair at the Olympics
• Rigged Rules and Double Standards
• The Atlas of Women

Oxfam Information

• Oxfam’s work on Gender Equality
• Oxfam’s work on Trade
• Make Trade Fair Campaign - Oxfam's campaign to change international trade rules

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