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Gender Mainstreaming in the Multilateral Trading System: A handbook for policymakers and other stakeholders

This handbook provides an integrated framework for a sustainable, pro-poor and gender-sensitive approach to trade policy-making. A major part of the silence around gender, trade and investment at the level of governance of the trading system would appear to be a lack of understanding of the conceptual, empirical and policy links between gender and trade. Paradoxically, along with the view that trade policies are gender blind there is also an underlying popular viewpoint among some trade scholars and trade policy decision-makers that trade liberalisation has unambiguously benefited women in terms of widespread employment. Emerging evidence shows that trade liberalisation can have both positive and negative effects on women’s economic and social status.

By: Mariama Williams

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