INSTRAW Library

Welcome to the INSTRAW LIBRARY, a compilation of around 600 publications produced by the former UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW), which served as the leading UN institute devoted to research, training and knowledge management to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. INSTRAW, along with DAW, OSAGI and UNIFEM, came together in 2010 to establish the present UN Women.

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The Legacy of INSTRAW

In addition to the INSTRAW Library, the UN Women Training Centre presents the publication “The legacy of INSTRAW in promoting the rights of women. A historical record of the Institute between 1976 and 2010”, which intends to pay tribute to the story of INSTRAW as well as to the women’s movements and governments which supported it.

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ID: 1994-I-STA-GLO-EN
Reference: A Woman's Time. (1994). INSTRAW News, No. 21, 20.
Year: 1994
Description: This issue of INSTRAW News describes firstly an important breakthrough in overcoming statistical barriers. INSTRAW has adapted a widely accepted statistical method, collection of time use data, as the means to put a value on the unpaid work. A second section deals with a specific facet of the same issue: women's management of water resources and the importance of their participation in national and international planning at the highest levels.
Instraw's Mandate: Information dissemination
Theme: Statistics, indicators and data
Keywords: Unpaid work, Time use data, Water management
Geographic Area: Global
Languages: English
Type of Product: INSTRAW News
Disponibility: Printed
LinkToFile: PDF FILE