Gender Equality Resources

CARE Gender Toolkit, “There is no one way to analyze gender or women’s empowerment. This site presents options. This is no ‘how-to’ guide, but a discussion on tried successes, struggles and lessons from analyzing gender and power.”

The Women in Agronomy, Crops, Soils, and Environmental Sciences Committee of the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America – Soil Science Society of America. A report prepared by Dinah Ceplis, AIC International Program Gender Equality Officer, February 2010

Women in Agriculture/Science: Roundtable Discussion, Brandon, Manitoba; Dinah Ceplis, AIC International Program Gender Equality Officer, November 2009

Women: Their Status in Professional Agriculture, Agricultural Institute Review, May-June 1967

Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women, Virginia Valian, 1999. “A scholarly and convincing explanation of women’s slow progress in the professions,”  Kirkus Reviews

Unconscious Bias in Scientific Disciplines, and in particular, Agricultural Science, Ellen Bergfeld, CSA News magazine, July 2009

A Century of Women in Agronomy: Lessons from Diverse Life Stories, Marla S. McIntosh and Steve R. Simmons, Agronomy Journal, May 2008

Gender and Scientific Dissemination in Public and Private Science: A Multivariate and Network Approach, Kjersten C. Bunker Whittington, Stanford University, February 2006

Women in Scientific Careers, Unleashing the Potential, OECD, 2006

Becoming Leaders:  A Practical Handbook for Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology, F. Mary Williams and Carolyn J. Emerson, 2008.

Successful Women, Successful Science, CGIAR Gender and Diversity Program, September 2008

Women in the Sciences, Catalyst, 2009

Women Scientists in Industry:  A Winning Formula for Companies, Catalyst, 1999

Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology, Annual Report 2007-2008,  2008

Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology website.

Diversity Isn’t Rocket Science, Is It?, New York Times, May 15, 2008

The Athena Factor: Reversing the Brain Drain in Science, Engineering, and Technology, Harvard Business Review, May 2008.

Stopping the Exodus of Women in Science, Harvard Business Review, June 2008

The Value of Diverse Leadership, Conference Board of Canada, November 2008

The Bottom Line:  Connecting Corporate Performance and Gender Diversity, Catalyst, January 2004

Advancing Women Leaders:  The Connection Between Women Board Directors and Women Corporate Officers, Catalyst, July 2008

2008 Catalyst Census of Women Board Directors of the Fortune 500, Catalyst, July 2008

The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance and Women’s Representation on Boards, Catalyst, October 2007

1998 Catalyst Census, Women Board Directors of Canada, Catalyst, January 1999

Women in Canada, A Gender-based Statistical Report, Statistics Canada, March 2006

Farm Women and Canadian Agricultural Policy, Carla Roppel, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Dian Martz, April 2006

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development (IJISD), Volume 4 – Issue 2/3 – 2009, Special Issue on Gender and Sustainable Development, Guest Editor: Dr. Candice Stevens

Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook, World Bank / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations / International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 2009

Guide to Gender Sensitive Indicators, Canadian International Development Agency, August 1997

Gender and Indicators, Overview Report, Annalise Moser, BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies, July 2007

Gender and Indicators, Supporting Resources Collection, Emily Esplen with Emma Bell, BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies, July 2007

Using Gender-Sensitive Indicators, A Reference Manual for Governments and Other Stakeholders, Tony Beck, Commonwealth Secretariat, June 1999

Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Natural Resources Management, Gender and Population Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Gender-Sensiitive HIV/AIDS Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluation fact sheet, World Bank, July 2003

Gender-Sensiitive HIV/AIDS Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluation fact sheet, World Bank, July 2003

The Why and How of Gender-Sensitive Indicators, A Project Level Handbook, Canadian International Development Agency, August 1997

Strategic Impact Inquiry on Women’s Empowerment, Report of Year 1 (July 2004 – June 2005/FY05), Sarah Mosedale and the CARE Impact Measurement and Learning Team, October 2005

Babies and Bosses, Volume 4, Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom, OECD 2005

Making Institutions Work for Women, Aruna Rao, Development, 2006, 49(1)

Opting In versus “Opting Out”: Women Using Flexible Work Arrangements for Career Success, Mary Shapiro, Cynthia Ingols and Stacy Blake-Beard, Simmons School of Management, January 2007

Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs, An Action Guide for Managers, Impact, June 2004

Engendering Budgets, A Practitioners’ Guide to Understanding and Implementing Gender-Responsive Budgets, Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003

Economics and Finance, Budget Impact Assessments (Gender Budgeting), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Information and Communications, the Netherlands, March 2002