The 1990s represented a shift in the international development agenda in the direction of a greater emphasis on rights and democracy. This brought many positive changes in women's rights and political representation as well as in human rights more broadly. In much of the world, however, these advances were not matched by significant progress in the achievement of greater social justice. Rising income inequalities, coupled with widespread poverty in many countries, have been accompanied by record levels of crime and violence. Meanwhile the global shift in the consensus over the role of the...
The 1990s represented a shift in the international development agenda in the direction of a greater emphasis on rights and democracy. This brought man...
The interlinkages between gender and poverty have, until recently, escaped careful analytical scrutiny. The contributors to this edited volume critically reflect on some of the key methodological and analytical issues that a gendered analysis of poverty needs to address. These foundational issues have serious implications for public action in this area.
The interlinkages between gender and poverty have, until recently, escaped careful analytical scrutiny. The contributors to this edited volume critica...
Gender and development theory and analysis is replete with implicit assumptions that women's entry into the world of paid work will positively affect their status both in the household and in the public sphere. Until recently the debate on global factories and export production has remained focused on women's individual experience of export employment- and the extent to which this represents a positive opportunity or gross exploitation. In spite of the extended discussion of rights and citizenship in the global economy, little attention has hitherto been paid to the implications for women's...
Gender and development theory and analysis is replete with implicit assumptions that women's entry into the world of paid work will positively affect ...
This book illustrates why both academic research and policy thinking need to factor-in gender hierarchies and structures if they are to address some of the key challenges of contemporary societies: the widespread informality and insecurity of paid work and the crisis of care.
This book illustrates why both academic research and policy thinking need to factor-in gender hierarchies and structures if they are to address some o...
Women working to change unfair treatment in bureaucracies can be either -missionaries- or -mandarins, - and must often be a combination of the two. -Missionaries- work from within the organization in their pursuit of gender equity. -Mandarins- work to adapt to the techniques and practices of the bureaucracy.
This book examines two kinds of strategies for making the bureaucratic structures of organizations, multilateral institutions and non-governmental organizations more gender-equitable. The contributors examine gender struggles not only at the discursive level, where women's...
Women working to change unfair treatment in bureaucracies can be either -missionaries- or -mandarins, - and must often be a combination of the two. -M...
Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a conceptually strong and empirically grounded analysis of care, reinforcing the necessity of rethinking the distinctions between "the public" and "the private" as well as the links between them. Yet this analysis, premised on post-industrial contexts, does not travel easily to other parts of the world....
Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally b...
In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more insecure, and the expected growth has rarely materialized. Insecurity is also etched into the growth of informal economies across the world. Yet the economic policy agenda that has been so adverse to many people around the world has also provided new opportunities to some social groups, including...
In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with great...
Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.
Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the -invisible economy- of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of Africa, Asia and Latin America Frames the debate on care and highlights policy experimentation and ideas currently in flux Includes new research and data on developing countries, showing how, where care options for the socially disadvantaged are limited, failing to socialize the costs of care...
Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus....
