Skip To Main Content
Tara Cookson on Muck Rack

Tara Cookson

As seen in: Wiley Online Library, The Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Devex, BRIGHT Magazine
Canada Research Chair in Gender & Dev @ubcSPPGA | Cofounder @Ladysmith | @Gates_Cambridge Scholar | Author: Unjust Conditions 📕 bit.ly/UnjustConditions
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Tara

Contact Tara, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Gender, social protection systems and street‐level bureaucrats

|
By Tara Cookson, Alexandra Barrantes
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Introduction Street-level bureaucrats are the “human face” of social protection delivery systems around the world and the interface between right holders and duty bearers. Even with rapid and far-reaching advances in the digitization of social protection systems (OHCHR, 2024; Sepúlveda Carmona, 2019; Vallistu, 2023), the work of social protection delivery is still largely carried out by humans.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Ep. 36 | Gender-Transformative Social Protection

|
By Tara Cookson, Lauren Whitehead, Tia Palermo, Maja Gavrilovic
| socialprotection.org
In today's episode, we delve into a pressing topic: the evolving landscape of social protection systems and their critical role in addressing the unique needs of women and girls throughout their lives. There's a growing recognition of the importance of tailoring social programmes to meet these specific needs, but we're also becoming more aware of how these programmes may inadvertently perpetuate gender norms, assuming women's roles in work and caregiving.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Do governments account for gender when designing their social protection systems? Findings from an analysis of national social protection strategies

|
By Tara Cookson, Rita Sandoval, Constanza Tabbush, Jennifer Bitterly
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Shock-responsiveness The COVID-19 pandemic cast light on the manner in which women shoulder a disproportionate share of the fallout (e.g., increased care, slower return to employment) when social protection systems fall short (Flor et al., 2022; UN Women, 2021).
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 19 articles