This collection of articles considers what diversity and difference are, why they are important for development organisations, and what the impact would be for development programmes. Includes the chaptors: Organisational strategy in India and diverse identities of women: Coalition building in the midst of political polarisation in Zimbabwe: Microfinance from the point of view of women with disabilities: lessons from Zambia and Zimbabwe: Gender, identity and diversity: learning from insights gained in transformative gender training: Promoting cultural diversity and rights of women: the dilemmas of 'intersectionality' for development organisations: Diversity in Oxfam GB: engaging the head and turning the heart: Poverty reduction policy responses to gender and social diversity in Uganda: Empowerment through activism: responding to domestic violence in the South Asian community in London.
The articles in this book deal with the ways gender and other social inequalities work together to support and facilitate the unsustainable 'race to bottom', which now characterises the global supply system. Discussed is the possibility for a global trading system to work as part of an international regime of rules that could reduce poverty and simultaneously increase equality and opportunities for women. Contents: 'Good jobs' and hidden costs: women workers documenting the price of precarious employment: Global trade and home work: closing the divide: Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China: Being a female entrepreneur in Botswana: Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA: Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?: TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective: Women, trade and migration: Gender, the Doha Development Agenda, and the post-Cancun trade negotiations: Corporate responsibility and women's employment: the case of cashew nuts.