This work examines the biases which underpin mainstream development thought and which account for the marginal status given to women's needs and interests in current development policy.
This work examines the biases which underpin mainstream development thought and which account for the marginal status given to women's needs and inter...
The absence of gender awareness in policy and planning in the past has given rise to a variety of efficiency, welfare and equity costs. This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work. It offers an inventory of the kinds of assumptions which lead to gender-blind policy, and assesses integrationist and transformatory strategies by feminist advocates to influence the mainstream policy agenda. An analytical framework for examining the gender...
The absence of gender awareness in policy and planning in the past has given rise to a variety of efficiency, welfare and equity costs. This book deve...
The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. The book brings together scholars from the global South and post-socialist economies to reflect on Nordic approaches to gender equality. The contributors to the book seek to explore from a comparative perspective the vision, values, policies, mechanisms, coalitions of interests and political processes that help to explain Nordic achievements on gender equality. While some contributors explore the Nordic experience through the prism of their own realities, others explore their own realities through the Nordic...
The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. The book brings together scholars from the global South and post...
