Volume 2, Number 1
October 1996

Position Announcements

Full-time, Assistant Professor of Women Studies, beginning Fall 1997.

Women Studies is seeking a feminist scholar with inter-disciplinary and international foci in the area of women and economic development. Applicants should have a Ph.D., a promising record of international research and publications and/or at least one year of applied international experience and be highly qualified for undergraduate and graduate teaching. Teaching responsibilities will include courses in the area of specialization. Applications with a current curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching foci, and three letters of recommendation should be sent to Professor Shirley J. Yee, Director of Women Studies, Box 354345, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. Priority will be given to applications received before January 15, 1997. The University of Washington continues to build a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from female and minority candidates. The University is an equal opportunity/Affirma-tive Action employer.

Full-time [.9], Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Department of Sociology, Gender Studies in the Agricultural Section, Wageningen Agricultural University.

One of the only entities of its kind in the West, the Agricultural Section of Wageningen University offers Masters and Ph.D. candidacy, supports post-doctoral research, and undertakes research in gender studies in agriculture/rural development in nonwestern and European contexts. The candidate will assist in the coordination of research programs as well as carry out his/her own research. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in a social discipline, a strong background in women's/gender studies and agriculture/rural development in nonwestern contexts, and substantial experience in research as well as in teaching/training and curriculum development. Development practice experience is also highly desirable. A publication record, good interpersonal and management skills, fluency in English, and willingness to learn Dutch are essential qualifications. Gross starting salary (full-time) is Dfl 7218-9700/month, depending on qualifications. For more information, call 31-317-483374, fax 31-317-483990 or e-mail Patricia.Howard@alg.vsl.wau.nl. Candidates must send an application letter and curriculum vitae, including a list of references.

Senior Programme Adviser, Socio-Economics/Gender

Duty Station: Rome
Date of Entry on Duty: as soon as possible
Level : P5

World Food Programme food aid is directed towards the goal of eradicating hunger and poverty. WFP formulated in 1995 its commitments to the Platform for Action on the Advancement of Women. The commitments provide the Programme with gender-specific goals to use its resources in interventions that seek to reduce the disproportionate effects of hunger and poverty on women, in particular, in two such areas where food as a resource can make a difference: (1) unequal access to and command over food resources by women, and (2) unequal access to asset/income-earning opportunities. WFP is also committed to addressing special nutritional problems faced by women and their children.

WFP is working through country- and region-specific gen-der action plans on agreements with governments and other implementing partners. The plans aim at more specific targeting of the needs of poor and hungry women and men in emergency relief and development operations, to ensure women's substantial voice in local decisionmaking committees on administration of food aid management and of the assets/ benefits created, and monitoring of the nature of their participation and benefits. WFP seeks to recruit a second socioeconomics and gender Programme Adviser to assist the Programme in meeting these commitments.