In preparation for the Fourth World Conference on Women which was held in Beijing in September 1995, UNRISD initiated an Occasional Paper Series reflecting work carried out under the UNRISD/UNDP project, Technical Co-operation and Women’s...
Despite their apparent gender-neutrality, most discussions of poverty have been premised on the concept of a male actor and of male-centred notions of well-being and agency. The assumption underpinning income/consumption and well-being measures is...
Official development-speak calculates time in decades. The U Ndeclared the 1960s the ‘First Decade of Development’, by whichreckoning, we are now in the fourth decade of development. Women,however, were not discovered until half-way through...
This paper examines whether women’s access to income earning opportunities has implications for their position in intra-household relationships. Read Now
A dynamic reassessment of development theory with a focus on gender, this book examines alternative frameworks for analyzing gender hierarchies; identifies the household as the primary site for the construction of power relations; assesses...
This book is the report of a three-day workshop which took place in Oxford, UK, in May 1993. It is a collection of articles on gender planning, which resulted from a conference sponsored by...
This article takes as its starting point the overwhelming concentration of Bangladeshi women in the homeworking sector of the clothing industry in London. This pattern forms a contrast to the large numbers of male...
Several decades of development experience have yielded a wealth of findings about the key assumptions, procedures, and practices by which women have been marginalised in development planning. The value of these insights lies not...
.. WOMEN AND LABOUR SUPPLY IN BANGLADESH 139 VI. … Fortunately, we do not have to make a choice between the polarised abstractions of individualism and structuralism, between treating human agents as rational fools, on the one hand, or as cultural dopes, on the … Read Now
Anu in Bangladesh (Beans) Book This is part of a series for 8 to 13 year olds in which each book describes a particular place, job or way of life. The...