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...
‘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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Macroeconometric studies generally find fairly robust evidence that gender equality has a positive impact on economic growth, but reverse findings relating to the impact of economic growth on gender equality are far less consistent....
Aim of the study The growing attention to social protection within the international development community since the late 1990s reflects various factors: the failure of short-term emergency responses to deal with structural food deficits,...
Presentation at University of Sussex 16th October 2014 Tracking the gender politics of the Millennium Development Goals: From the Millennium Declaration to the post-MDG consultations
The people most likely to be left behind by development are those facing ‘intersecting inequalities’, or economic deficits intersecting with discrimination and exclusion on the grounds of identity and locational disadvantage. • The experience...