Looking for a career in development with a focus on gender? Here are ten ‘classic’ reads to add to your library...

1. #DevReads
10 books you should read if
you’d like to work in gender
and development

2. #DevReads
Looking for a career in development
with a focus on gender? Here are
ten ‘classic’ reads to add to your
library...

3. Tools for the Field:
Methodologies Handbook
for Gender Analysis in
Agriculture
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Hilary Sims Feldstein, Janice Jiggins (editors)

4. Gender Analysis in Development
Planning: A Case Book.
Aruna Rao, Mary B. Anderson, Catherine
Overholt
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5. Assessing the gender impact of
development projects: case
studies from Bolivia, Burkina
Faso and India
Vera Gianotten, Verona Groverman,
Edith van Wilsum, Lida Zuid
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6. Gender Planning and
Development: Theory, Practice
and Training
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Caroline Moser

7. Power, Gender and Social
Change in Africa
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by Muna Ndulo (Author, Editor)
Margaret Grieco (Editor)
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8. Making the Strongest Links: A
practical guide to mainstreaming
gender analysis in value chain
development
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Linda Mayoux, Grania Mackie,
International Labour Office

9. The Women, Gender and
Development Reader
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Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan,
Nan Wiegersma and Laurie Nisonoff

10. Gender and Social Protection
in the Developing World:
Beyond Mothers and Safety
Nets
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Rebecca Holmes, Nicola Jones

11. Half the Sky: Turning
Oppression into Opportunity
for Women Worldwide
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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

12. Reversed Realities: Gender
Hierarchies in Development
Thought
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Naila Kabeer
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13. Watch Dr. Morris' webinar on gender-focused careers in development
How did we create this list?
This is a list of compiled recommendations from
gender expert, Dr. Patricia Morris, Director of
Development and Training Services’ Gender
Practice, and the Devex community on LinkedIn.
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