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Economic pathways to women’s empowerment and active citizenship: what does the data from Bangladesh tell us?
This paper sets out to explore economic pathways to women’s empowerment and active citizenship in Bangladesh, a country where the denial of economic resources to women, and their resulting status as lifelong dependents on...
Panel discussion with Amartya Sen, David Lewis, Juli Huang and Naila Kabeer Unexpected social progress in Bangladesh
A panel discussion on why Bangladesh reports remarkable progress on social development and gender equality despite low per capita income and poor governance http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3522
Launch of Japanese translation of ‘The Power to choose: Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka’
Launch of Japanese translation of ‘The power to choose: Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka’ in Sunkyu Civic Hall, Tokyo at 6.30 – 8.30 on 22nd April 2016
Japanese translation of ‘The power to choose: Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka’ translated by Dr. Tamaki Endo, Dr. Waka Aoyama and Dr. Jaehyang Han
‘The power to choose: Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka’ Japanese translation by Dr. Tamaki Endo, Dr. Waka Aoyama and Dr. Jaehyang Han. Cover photos by Safia Azim,...
Are women suffering the greatest injustice in human history? Interviews with feminists around the world
In this exclusive interview series, we talk to: Leymah Gbowee (Nobel Peace Prize Winner), Leslee Udwin (Director of ‘India’s Daughter’), Sheryl WuDunn (Co-Founder, Half the Sky Movement), Dr. Anne Summers (Feminist, Author), Professor Michael...
Empowerment, citizenship and gender justice: contributions to locally-grounded theories of social change
Struggles for gender justice by women’s movements have sought to give legal recognition to gender equality at both national and international levels. However, such society-wide goals may have little resonance in the lives of...
Evolving meanings of ‘the social’ in international development agenda
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21699763.2015.1044555?journalCode=rjcs21 ABSTRACT: This paper argues that while social policy as an explicit aspect of policy discourse has relatively recent origins within the international development agenda, concerns with “the social” have featured from its very...
Paid work, women’s empowerment and gender justice: critical pathways of social change
The focus of this paper is the theme of empowering work, or more specifically, the transformativepotential of paid work, including its implications for voice and bodily integrity. This focus can be seen as one strand in...
Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development
This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of international development. It draws out the continuous threads running through these contributions over...