Asia Insights: Women and gender

Nordic Links

Gendering Asia

A Nordic Research Network. The Gendering Asia Network provides a forum for Nordic scholars where research results and ideas can be exchanged and contacts made. The network thus encourages scholars to enrich one another's research and more generally Nordic research on gender in Asia.

International Links

Woman and Politics in Asia
bibliography covering references to books, chapters in books and journal and newspaper articles on Women and Politcs in Asia (1990-2004). The references are selected from the databases Bibliography of Asian Studies, databases on social sciences in Webspirs and in ProQuest Direct, World Affairs Online, Social Sciences Citation Index, British Library of Development Studies On-line Catalogue, BRIDGE, Kvindfo, Women in Politics Bibliographical Database and NIAS ASIANA.
The bibliography is in the form of a searchable database.
Compiled by Anja Møller Rasmussen and Per Hansen, NIAS Library and Information Centre, NIAS
The bibliography is also available as Word | pdf-file

Eldis Gender Resource Guide

GenderIT.org
A new gender and ICT policy website helps women make ICT policy a priority

South Asian Women's Writing
This website for women's writing from South Asia aims to promote internationally the voices that are less frequently heard. It focuses only on writing from women who live and work in the region.

The world's women 2005: progress in statistics
Authors: Statistics Division of the UN
Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
Produced by: United Nations (UN) Statistics Division (UNSD) (2006)
This report presents national sex disaggregated statistics in such areas as demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, poverty, human rights and decision-making. The report reviews and analyses the current availability of data and assesses progress made in the provision of national statistics, as opposed to internationally prepared estimates, relevant to gender concerns during the past 30 years. It proposes a set of strategies to strengthen national capacity to collect and report statistics and also for improved mainstreaming of gender concerns.

Gender Profiles

Bangladesh gender profile
Authors: Shah, F. , Produced by: KfW Bankengruppe (2006)

This paper critically examines the issue of gender and women's equality in Bangladesh. The author asserts that while overall poverty has decreased in this country in recent years, poverty continues to have concrete gender dimensions. The paper begins with a summary of the national frameworks for promoting gender equality in Bangladesh, and reviews the gender dimensions of the primary drivers of poverty reduction efforts in the country. The paper is aim at staff of the German development bank, and to development partners working to improve gender equality in this country. [adapted from author]