Gender Equality Striving for Justice in an Unequal World

Based on the findings of UNRISD ongoing gender research and over 60 specially commissioned studies, the report's analysis is centred on the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. If most of these reforms did not directly address gender equality, they nevertheless received considerable scrutiny from a gender perspective. And whatever their intentions, they had significant and mixed implications for gender relations and women's well-being. The report presents strong arguments for why gender equality must be placed at the core of efforts to reorient the development agenda. Indeed, if some of the key contemporary challenges (economic growth and structural transformation, equality and social protection, and democratisation) are to be metUnited Nations Research Institute for Social Development Staff is the author of 'Gender Equality Striving for Justice in an Unequal World', published 2005 under ISBN 9789290850526 and ISBN 9290850523.